Polygon or Polyline ??

[nav17kapur]

I noticed that in some cases Draw treats some polylines as polygons (when viewed in the content.xml file of the draw file) . Could someone help me out on what test it uses for a polyline to qualify as a polygon.

[Hagar Delest]

Are you sure it's a Macro question?
What have you in mind exactly?

[nav17kapur]

I am working on something that involves interpreting the content.xml file that Draw constructs. I was having a few problems in this regard. I tried to use the method I use to draw polylines for polygons but I was not able to make the first and the last points the same and still, reading the aforementioned XML file, I found that Draw interprets it as a polygon rather than a polyline even though the first and last points were not the same....

So, I just wanted to know how Draw interprets a particular polyline(with end-points close but not the same) as a polygon.

[B Marcelly]

Hi,
From the programming point of view, a broken line is created as an instance of the service com.sun.star.drawing.PolyLineShape.
The same broken line (with distinct start point and end point) becomes a closed polygon if it is created as an instance of the service com.sun.star.drawing.PolyPolygonShape.

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Bernard