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Chapter 2 - Shape Objects / Shape Objects Reference

Constants and Data Types

Shape Type

A shape object's shape type specifies what type of geometry the shape object has. Constants for all shape types are defined in the gxShapeTypes enumeration:

enum gxShapeTypes {
   gxEmptyType = 1,     
   gxPointType,         
   gxLineType,       
   gxCurveType,         
   gxRectangleType,     
   gxPolygonType,    
   gxPathType,          
   gxBitmapType,     
   gxTextType,       
   gxGlyphType,   
   gxLayoutType,        
   gxFullType,          
   gxPictureType     
};

typedef long gxShapeType;

The individual shape types are described further in Table 2-1 on page 2-9.