Grouping paths/elements

[Maarten Renckens]

Is it useful to allow the grouping of elements like text/paths/…? That way, several elements on the canvas can be moved/scaled/rotated at the same time and around the came coördinates, without having to code all of them one by one.

[frederik]

I would like to encourage you to write your own 'grouped' items!

make function, a def myTextRect(...), that draws anything you like to draw!!!

like:

def myTextRect(txt, box, border):
    x, y, w, h = box
    with savedState():
        
        with savedState():
            stroke(0, 1, 1)
            fill(None)
            strokeWidth(border)
            rect(x - border, y - border, w + border * 2, h + border * 2)
            
            corners = [
                (x - border, y - border),
                (x + w + border, y - border),
                (x + w + border, y + h + border),
                (x - border, y + h + border),
            ]
            stroke(None)
            fill(1, 0, 0)
            dotSize = border * 2
            for cornerX, cornerY in corners:
                oval(cornerX - dotSize, cornerY - dotSize, dotSize * 2, dotSize * 2)
        
        font("Times-Italic")
        fontSize(20)
        fill(0, 1, 0)
        textBox(txt, box)
        

translate(100, 100)
myTextRect("hello world" * 100, (20, 20, 300, 200), 20)
translate(0, 400)
myTextRect("foo bar" * 100, (20, 20, 300, 200), 20)

[Maarten Renckens]

@frederik Got it. Thanks!