Drawing (advanced) shapes

[Appsurdgames]

Drawing shapes in GameMaker is relatively easy, but GM supports by default only several shapes. This is a suggestion to add functions for drawing more shapes. In particular, this issue aims at adding:

• Change the figure border type (functions ending on *_ext below) based on draw_primitive_begin();
• Draw figure with thick border (functions ending on *_width)
• Draw filled figure (functions ending on *_filled)

I agree that this issue is rather broad, so I opted to make a start. This is my list so far (please find the implementation here:
drawing_lib.zip

• draw_circle_ext
• draw_circle_width
• draw_ellipse_ext
• draw_ellipse_width
• draw_line_dashed
• draw_rectangle_dashed
• draw_rectangle_width
• draw_regular_polygon
• draw_roundrect_dashed
• draw_roundrect_filled
• draw_roundrect_width
• draw_star_dashed
• draw_star_filled
• draw_star_width
• draw_triangle_width

My questions: (a) is this relevant for this toolbox and (b) if so, what is the best way to proceed?

[Alphish]

Personally, I find these functions on the specific side, especially the *_ext functions and stars. Myself, I'd more likely try to use sprites for these, especially with SVG becoming supported.

I don't see specific plans for dashed strokes (which is what could handle *_dashed functions, and probably in a neater way too), but I see the feature plan for supporting strokes in general, so I guess dashed/dotted lines might be mentioned there: YoYoGames/GameMaker-Bugs#8275

It's one of those "might implement if people demand it, but seems specific otherwise" kind of feature request.

[Appsurdgames]

Once SVG is supported, the need for these functions decreases. But I recently built an application where the user could place figures and increase/decrease its shape (similar to Microsoft Paint). Without SVG support, these functions provided for me a nice alternative.

I agree that some functions may be very specific, but I considered them sufficiently general to mention here. But let's see what others think about it :)