Graphics.DrawBeziers(Pen pen, Point[] points) doesn't seem to work

[Moonpile]

Is there any work around to use that method? 

 

I get (and I had to type this, is there any way to copy exceptions out of CodeLab?):
 

System.ArgumentException: Parameter is not valid

at System.Drawing.Graphics.CheckErrorStatus(Int32 status)

at System.Drawing.Graphics.DrawBeziers(Pen pen, Point[] points)

at PaintDotNet.Effects.UserScripts.Render(.....)

 

I built a List<Point>

 

then did

Point[] pointsArr = points.ToArray();

g.DrawBeziers(myPen, pointsArr);

[toe_head2001]

How may points are in your Point Array?

 

Due to the nature of Bezier Curves, they need to have a multiple of Three plus One.

EX: 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, ect.

 

 

You can use any amount of Points with Spline Curves, but of course they behave differently compared to Bezier Curves.

Edited December 24, 2015 by toe_head2001

[Red ochre]

DrawBeziers works with an array of PointFs.

You may (or may not) find the source code here useful.

http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/26464-bentley-beta-for-bezncurve-update/

 

I can upload the original codelab version if that's easier.

[Moonpile]

How may points are in your Point Array?

 

Due to the nature of Bezier Curves, they need to have a multiple of Three plus One.

EX: 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, ect.

 

 

You can use any amount of Points with Spline Curves, but of course they behave differently compared to Bezier Curves.

 

This was definitely my problem.  Wow, DrawBeziers does not fail gracefully with the wrong number of elements in that array!

DrawBeziers works with an array of PointFs.

You may (or may not) find the source code here useful.

http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/26464-bentley-beta-for-bezncurve-update/

 

I can upload the original codelab version if that's easier.

 

Looks like there's actually a signature for an array of Points or PointF.

[Rick Brewster]

It's not supposed to fail gracefully. The documentation says the requirements for the arguments, you didn't meet them, and because the method can't draw beziers from invalid input, it threw an exception.

 

The alternative is to fail silently and then have mysteriously blank output that is completey undebuggable when working at a medium to larger scale of code.

[Moonpile]

I guess I meant that the exception didn't really explain what was going wrong.  I did miss that part in the documentation, though.

[Rick Brewster]

System.Drawing is pretty vague when it comes to error descriptions. It's a wrapper around GDI+ and doesn't attempt to provide any extra detail beyond mapping error codes to exception types.

[Moonpile]

I haven't done a whole lot with System.Drawing before, so I'll keep an eye on the documentation.

 

I see that while you can just draw what you want, it looks like the more accepted way for a Paint.NET plugin to work is to set values dot by dot in the nested loops anyway.

[Rick Brewster]

You can use GDI+ if you want, there's nothing "wrong" with it. It just depends on what you want to do. GDI+ won't be able to do lots of the more interesting stuff; it's primarily suited for drawing geometry, text, and some types of gradients.