Re: animate-elem-35 (ISSUE-2113)

Hi, Piers-

Thanks much for checking this out for us.  We will take this into
account when deciding what to do about this test.

Regards-
-Doug

Piers Wombwell wrote (on 10/9/08 9:21 AM):
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> Just had a quick glance at your test suite results, and noticed a
> comment against test animate-elem-35.
> 
> The problem here is down to fixed point maths. The inside of the 'A' is
> made from a path using relative co-ordinates which don't map well to
> fixed point maths. So when it draws the horizontal line to complete the
> path in the bottom-right, the end point doesn't quite match the start
> point. The closepath then expects the current point to be equal to the
> start point, but they aren't quite, and so it draws a sub-one-pixel line
> -- and so the line joins aren't as expected. Rather than one line join
> between the last and first lines (_ and \), there will be two line
> joins, one between the _ and the short closepath, and one between the
> short closepath and the first line \.
> 
> I assume the problem is the same on the outer part of the 'A', but
> haven't confirmed this.
> 
> I'm not sure what precision you need for the test to pass, but floating
> point tends to pass and fixed point (24.8) fails in my experience.
> 
> Piers.
>