Hello all, Here's what I'm working on right now. Lets say I have a truck on a twisting racetrack and I want my shoes to display the position of the truck on said track. I've created a Shape using several lines and bezier curves to represent my track. Now I want to fill in a portion of the track to indicate that the truck occupies that area. So this brings up several questions.
Firstly, does anyone know if Shoes offers a Path in the NodeBox sense that I could use instead of a Shape? i.e. so I could call autoclosepath(False)? Or is there any way to draw a curve without it being a part of a shape which must be closed? Also, is any of the functionality of http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Path_Mathematics implimented? That page asks the question "But what if we want to know the location of a point on the path that is not one of these, but somewhere in between?" This seems to be precisely what I need to do in order to fill a section of the track to indicate the truck. So at last, the ultimate question, is there any way to do this in shoes? If not, does anyone have any suggestions for an alternative way to do it? Or does anyone want to start hacking the shoes source with me to add this functionality? -Garret Buell
