#1,150 – Custom Arc Shape, part II

Below is code that implements a custom Shape to draw an arc.  The earlier code has been improved to:

• Support elliptical arcs (height != width)
• Add dependency properties for start and end angles

Start and end angles are automatically coerced to keep them within the range [0, 360).

    public class Arc : Shape
    {
        // Angle that arc starts at
        public double StartAngle
        {
            get { return (double)GetValue(StartAngleProperty); }
            set { SetValue(StartAngleProperty, value); }
        }

        // DependencyProperty - StartAngle
        private static PropertyMetadata startAngleMetadata =
                new PropertyMetadata(
                    0.0,     // Default value
                    null,    // Property changed callback
                    new CoerceValueCallback(CoerceAngle));   // Coerce value callback

        public static readonly DependencyProperty StartAngleProperty =
            DependencyProperty.Register("StartAngle", typeof(double), typeof(Arc), startAngleMetadata);

        // Angle that arc ends at
        public double EndAngle
        {
            get { return (double)GetValue(EndAngleProperty); }
            set { SetValue(EndAngleProperty, value); }
        }

        // DependencyProperty - EndAngle
        private static PropertyMetadata endAngleMetadata =
                new PropertyMetadata(
                    90.0,     // Default value
                    null,    // Property changed callback
                    new CoerceValueCallback(CoerceAngle));   // Coerce value callback

        public static readonly DependencyProperty EndAngleProperty =
            DependencyProperty.Register("EndAngle", typeof(double), typeof(Arc), endAngleMetadata);

        private static object CoerceAngle(DependencyObject depObj, object baseVal)
        {
            double angle = (double)baseVal;
            angle = Math.Min(angle, 359.9);
            angle = Math.Max(angle, 0.0);
            return angle;
        }

        protected override Geometry DefiningGeometry
        {
            get
            {
                double maxWidth = RenderSize.Width;
                double maxHeight = RenderSize.Height;

                double xStart = maxWidth / 2.0 * Math.Cos(StartAngle * Math.PI / 180.0);
                double yStart = maxHeight / 2.0 * Math.Sin(StartAngle * Math.PI / 180.0);

                double xEnd = maxWidth / 2.0 * Math.Cos(EndAngle * Math.PI / 180.0);
                double yEnd = maxHeight / 2.0 * Math.Sin(EndAngle * Math.PI / 180.0);

                StreamGeometry geom = new StreamGeometry();
                using (StreamGeometryContext ctx = geom.Open())
                {
                    ctx.BeginFigure(
                        new Point((maxWidth / 2.0) + xStart,
                                   (maxHeight / 2.0) - yStart),
                        false,
                        false);
                    ctx.ArcTo(
                        new Point((maxWidth / 2.0) + xEnd,
                                  (maxHeight / 2.0) - yEnd),
                        new Size(maxWidth / 2.0, maxHeight / 2),
                        0.0,     // rotationAngle
                        (EndAngle - StartAngle) > 180,   // greater than 180 deg?
                        SweepDirection.Counterclockwise,
                        true,    // isStroked
                        true);
                }

                return geom;
            }
        }
    }

We can use the Arc shape as shown below.

#1,149 – Drawing an Arc in a Custom Shape

We can use a StreamGeometryContext to render some geometry in a custom Shape element that we can then use in XAML.  Below is an example that draws a simple arc from 0 degress to 90 degrees.  It uses a PolarPoint class to allow describing the arc start and finish as polar coordinates.  (A future post will allow a user to specify arc start and end).

    public class Arc : Shape
    {
        protected override Geometry DefiningGeometry
        {
            get
            {
                double maxWidth = RenderSize.Width;
                double maxHeight = RenderSize.Height;
                double maxRadius = Math.Min(maxWidth, maxHeight) / 2.0;

                PolarPoint arcStart = new PolarPoint(maxRadius, 0.0);
                PolarPoint arcFinish = new PolarPoint(maxRadius, 90.0);

                StreamGeometry geom = new StreamGeometry();
                using (StreamGeometryContext ctx = geom.Open())
                {
                    ctx.BeginFigure(
                        new Point((maxWidth / 2.0) + arcStart.X,
                                   (maxHeight / 2.0) - arcStart.Y),
                        false,
                        false);
                    ctx.ArcTo(
                        new Point((maxWidth / 2.0) + arcFinish.X,
                                  (maxHeight / 2.0) - arcFinish.Y),
                        new Size(maxRadius, maxRadius),
                        0.0,     // rotationAngle
                        false,   // greater than 180 deg?
                        SweepDirection.Counterclockwise,
                        true,    // isStroked
                        true);
                }

                return geom;
            }
        }
    }

Using the arc:

        <loc:Arc Stroke="Black" StrokeThickness="1"
                 Height="100" Width="100" Margin="5"
                 HorizontalAlignment="Center"/>