Arguments: stream old-box draw-fn erase-fn &optional scroll-p cursor first-corner
A destructive version of get-shape-box. The old-box argument is modified to be the box chosen by the user and then returned. Like get-shape-box, this function waits for the user to press a mouse button to establish one corner of the desired box and then, after moving the mouse about, unpressing it to establish the other corner. Old-box is set to the resulting box and returned.
draw-fn is called each time the shape is to be drawn and erase-fn each time it is to be erased. draw-fn and erase-fn each have two arguments: the stream and the current box. When they are called, the stream brush will be set to one pixel-width black, the stream paint operation to invert. Thus, drawing the shape twice will suffice.
As the mouse moves about, candidate boxes are drawn and erased using draw-fn and erase-fn.
If scroll-p is true, the window identified by stream will be scrolled if the cursor moves outside it. Sets the stream cursor to cursor while running. If the cursor argument is t, a stream default is used (typically the cross-hair cursor).
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.
Common Graphics and IDE documentation is described in About Common Graphics and IDE documentation in cgide.htm.
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