[Cuis-dev] Icons with path sequence in vector graphics

[Luciano Notarfrancesco]

Great, thanks a lot, also for intoLocation:do: !

On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 22:00 Juan Vuletich <juan at cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Luciano,
>
> On 2026-06-25 5:16 AM, Luciano Notarfrancesco via Cuis-dev wrote:
> > Hi Juan,
> > Thanks for the detailed explanation of the rationale behind your
> > design. I was considering using TTF icons, but then I thought it
> > was going to be annoying to have to work with arbitrary code points
> > instead of the actual fonts, or would require a global mapping name ->
> > icon/codePoint that I also didn't like much, so I followed your
> > suggestion of doing this instead of TTF fonts and now I see it's much
> > cleaner and simpler.
>
> Most important to me, using TTF forces you to use text metrics
> arguments, when you're actually doing graphics and text metrics are
> maningless here.
>
> >
> > I'm still not sure, but at this point I feel that we don't really need
> > the reified PathCommands (or perhaps they just belong to the SVG
> > package), I'd prefer to use literal Float32Arrays directly if we added
> > support for the rest of the commands.
>
> Yes. We need to add support for the rest of the commands. It is in my
> ToDo list now.
>
> > BTW, regarding #[], I'd like to suggest to change it to create
> > Float32Arrays instead of Float64Arrays... apparently all the current
> > use cases end up converting them to Float32Array anyway, and for that
> > they use two syntactic suggars: #[] and the backtick, it would be
> > simpler if #[] produced Float32Arrays instead...
>
> You're right. Just pushed 2 updates for that. We never actually needed
> literal Float64Arrays anyway.
>
> >
> > Here's an example of an IconMorph, not necessarily the best
> > implementation but it shows the idea, you can test it like this:
> >     IconMorph new pathData:
> > 'M240-200h120v-240h240v240h120v-360L480-740 240-560v360Zm-80
> > 80v-480l320-240 320 240v480H520v-240h-80v240H160Zm320-350Z'
>
> Just pushed your IconMorph as an update. Included this as a class
> example method.
>
> Thanks!
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Luciano
>
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