QuickTime 4 Reference

Shape Objects

A shape is something that you can draw. A shape consists of a shape object and three other associated objects (style, ink, and transform). A shape object consists of a geometry of a certain shape type (such as a line) and information about how the geometry is framed or filled when drawn. A shape also has attributes, such as whether it should be stored in accelerator-card memory, if present. It also has references to its other three related objects.