Hidden point technique to mask an image

[Alejandro Tejada]

Hi all,

on May 10, 2010
Sott Rossi posted
in the message thread titled:
"Object is not an image when Crop command"
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Recently, JosepM wrote: 

> I understand you but I don't know the
> "hidden point" technique :) 
> Where add a space in the polygon's list? 

A polygon is derived from a list of points,
one per line: 

23,181 
42,190 
36,195 
23,181 

Adding an empty line between points in the list
adds an invisible point to the polygon that changes
the polygon's dimensions without adding to the fill 
or stroke of the polygon. 

5,181 

23,181 
42,190 
36,195 
23,181 

Using this technique, one could establish the
*physical* topleft of a polygon to occur at
one location while the *visible* topleft of the
polygon occurs at a different location.
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Recently, i tried to use this technique, but the
polygon graphic get filled in the wrong places
and the selection area of the graphic grows
too much.

Probably the wrong fill is a side effect of applying
the new property named fillRule:
http://docs.runrev.com/Property/fillRule

I will be very grateful if some of you could post
a stack that demostrate this technique and test
the fillRule property with this background
filled polygon graphic.

Thanks in advance!

Al
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