CHAPTER 7 VCS Secondary Objects

Secondary objects help to specify and define primary objects in VCS. The list of secondary objects include: colormap, fill area, format, line, marker, list, text-combined, text-orientation, and text-table. Note, although the colormap is considered a secondary object, it is acessed differenly. Therefore, the colormap object will not be described below. See the "VCS Command Reference Guide" for colormap commands.

Note, to see the list of object attributes, use the list() function. For example:

import vcs

a=vcs.init()

ln=a.createline(`new')

ln.list() # This call will list the line attributes and their values

tt=a.createtexttable(`new')

tt.list() # This call will list the text-table attributes and their values


Object	Attributes (or Members)	Exception Type(s)
fillarea (graphics method class name is Tf)	name style index color	StringType Either: 'solid', 'hatch', 'pattern' IntType: (Range 1 to 20) IntType: (Range 0 to 255)
line (graphics method class name is Tl)	name type width color	StringType Either: 'solid', 'dash', 'dot', 'dash-dot', 'long-dash', 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 IntType: (Range 1 to 300) IntType: (Range 0 to 255)
marker (graphics method class name is Tm)	name type size color	StringType Either: "dot", "plus", "star", "circle", "cross", "diamond", "triangle_up", "triangle_down", "triangle_left", "triangle_right", "square", "diamond_fill", "triangle_up_fill", "triangle_down_fill", "triangle_left_fill", "triangle_right_fill", "square_fill", 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 IntType: (Range 1 to 300) IntType: (Range 0 to 255)
text-combined (graphics method class name is Tc)	name font spacing expansion color name height angel path halign valign	StringType IntType: (Range 1 to 9) IntType: (Range -50 to 50) IntType: (Range 50 to 150) IntType: (Range 0 to 255) StringType IntType: (Range 1 to 100) IntType: (Range 0 to 360) Either: 'right', 'left', 'up', 'down', 0, 1, 2, 3 Either: 'left', 'center', 'right', 0, 1, 2 Either: 'top', 'cap', 'half', 'base', 'bottom', 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
text-orientation (graphics method class name is To)	name height angel path halign valign	StringType IntType: (Range 1 to 100) IntType: (Range 0 to 360) Either: 'right', 'left', 'up', 'down', 0, 1, 2, 3 Either: 'left', 'center', 'right', 0, 1, 2 Either: 'top', 'cap', 'half', 'base', 'bottom', 0, 1, 2, 3, 4
text-table (graphics method class name is Tt)	name font spacing expansion color	StringType IntType: (Range 1 to 9) IntType: (Range -50 to 50) IntType: (Range 50 to 150) IntType: (Range 0 to 255)

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