line-dashing

Generic Function

Package: common-graphics

Arguments: stream

Returns the line dashing of stream. Values can be :solid, :dot, :dash, :dash-dot, :double-dot, :long-dash, :dash-double-dot.

Note that in Windows 95/98 (but not in Windows NT) line-dashing is only effective when the line-width is 1 (this is an operating system limitation). For horizontal and vertical lines, you can get the effect of wider dashed lines by drawing more than one one-pixel-wide dashed lines next one another.

Note: incompatible change in release 6.0: in releases prior to 6.0, when a frame-with-single-child instance was passed to this operator, the operator was actually applied to the child (the result of applying frame-child to the frame-with-single-child instance). In release 6.0, this redirection no longer occurs. If you intend this operator to apply to the frame-child, pass that to this operator rather than the parent. This is a non-backward-compatible-change. See the release notes for more information.

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Created 2000.10.5.