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Date/Time: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 12:49:16 +0000



[Programming Help] - Coding Question: How to draw 5 parallel lines 1% apart?

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[2024-03-10 18:15:04]
User656492 - Posts: 143
I understand SC support provides little programming support but maybe someone can take a moment.

I know I can create 5 DRAWING_HORIZONTALLINEs and do the math for each, but it seems that there should be a cleaner way to use the DRAWING_PARALLEL_LINES drawing type to do this more cleanly.

I'm unable to find an example of code using DRAWING_PARALLEL_LINES. Anyone got one in their pocket?

Thanks!
[2024-03-10 21:36:57]
User656492 - Posts: 143
Update for those who are climbing this mountain. I found some insight in a related support request.

All levels are specified as a floating point percentage (Example: 0.618) of Tool.BeginValue.

So in this example, 50.0 = Begin Value * .5.

Tool.RetracementLevels[0] = 100.0f;
Tool.RetracementLevels[1] = 61.8f;
Tool.RetracementLevels[2] = 50.0f;
Tool.RetracementLevels[3] = 38.2f;
Tool.RetracementLevels[4] = 23.6f;
Tool.RetracementLevels[5] = 0.0f;

The answer is to go negative.

Tool.RetracementLevels[0] = -1.0f; <== BeginValue + 1%

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