Documentation error in Graphics.draw.Ellipse

[Professor]

While working with Graphics.draw.Ellipse(), I believe I discovered an error in the documentation.

 

The four parameters (x, y, width, height) are stated to be the x/y coordinates of the upper-left corner of the framing rectangle of the ellipse, along with the width and height of the ellipse.

 

As currently implemented, x and y are actually the coordinates of the CENTER of the ellipse, width is the horizontal RADIUS (one/half the total width), and height is the vertical RADIUS (one-half the total height).

 

The function works fine otherwise.

 

- prof

 

 

[Leth]

The documentation is fine. It's the upper-left corner of the framing rectangle of the ellipse, not the upper-left corner of the ellipse itself. But the x and y are indeed the center of the ellipse.

A graphic inherits from DisplayObjectContainer, you have to move the graphic to a new position if you want to see all the ellipse on the stage: http://jsfiddle.net/yX3T5/

Set the positions to 0, 0 on the jsfiddle and you'll see that the x and y are the upper-left corner of the framing rectangle AND the center of the ellipse