Arc(x, y, xradius, yradius, start, end[[, color], table])

The width of the partial ellipse will be xradius * 2 + 1 (center point) and the height will be yradius * 2 + 1 (center point).

If layers are enabled, this command will add a new layer of the type #ARC to the layer stack.

New in Hollywood 2.0: Color can also be an ARGB value for alpha-blended drawing.

Starting with Hollywood 4.5 this function uses a new syntax with just a single table as an optional argument. The old syntax is still supported for compatibility reasons. The optional table argument can be used to configure the style of the arc. The following options are possible:

Clockwise:

You can use this tag to specify whether or not the elliptic arc shall be drawn in clockwise direction. This tag defaults to True which means clockwise drawing. If you set it to False, Arc() will connect the angles in anti-clockwise direction. (V2.5)

Furthermore, the optional table argument can also contain one or more of the standard tags for all drawing commands. See Standard drawing tags for more information about the standard tags that nearly all Hollywood drawing commands support.

Please note that due to historical reasons the position that has to be passed to this function in the first two arguments is really the top-left corner of the elliptical arc's bounding rectangle. This might be confusing since traditionally elliptical arcs are drawn relative to their center point. Due to a design mistake in Hollywood 1.0, however, Hollywood unfortunately deviates from this standard.

Note that when drawing to a palette-based target and the palette mode is set to #PALETTEMODE_PEN, this function will draw using the pen set via SetDrawPen() instead of the color passed to the function.

x

x offset for the ellipse

y

y offset for the ellipse

xradius

x radius of your ellipse

yradius

y radius of your ellipse

start

start angle in degrees (must be positive)

end

end angle in degrees (must be positive)

color

optional: RGB or ARGB color (defaults to #BLACK) color is optional because it is not required when you render to a mask or alpha channel

table

optional: table containing further arguments; can be any from the ones listed above and from the standard tags (V4.5)

Arc(0, 0, 183, 183, 45, 315, #WHITE)
Circle(164, 33, 16, #BLACK)