how to make a triangle

2 responses

• enrique says

  Howdy jpflynn

  You ask a good question, and it took a little searching.

  The 'Nobody knows Shoes' PDF - see the FAQ page - mentions making shapes like 'oval' and 'rect', but nothing more abstract.

  Found what you want in the 'Shoes Manual' in hackety-hack itself. Do a search for 'shape' and you will get a page describing making an arbitrary shapes with lines, arcs and moves.

  So a quick example of a triangle would be to move to a spot, make a line, make a line, then line back to the starting point:

  Shoes.app do
    fill red(0.2)
      shape do
        move_to(90,90)
        line_to(45,55)
        line_to(20,60)
        line_to(90,90)
      end
  end
  

  Hope this helps getting you started.

  E
• enrique says

  force answered due to age.