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Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX Graphics /
Chapter 3 - Geometric Styles


About Geometric Styles

A style is a group of stylistic variations applied to a shape. QuickDraw GX provides two major categories of stylistic variations: geometric variations, which include pen width, dashes, patterns, and so on, and typographic variations, which include font, font size, typestyle, and so on.

Both types of stylistic variation are encapsulated in a style object. Like a shape object, a style object is a data structure that you manipulate with functions provided by QuickDraw GX. Each style object has a group of properties, and each style property represents a different stylistic variation.


Subtopics
Shapes and Styles
Incorporating Stylistic Variations Into Shape Geometries
Style Properties
Default Style Objects
Curve Error
The Geometric Pen
Style Attributes
Interactions Between Caps, Joins, Dashes, and Patterns

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