If I got a Shape which internally is a Shape.Generic, and I want to read its path, is my best bet to...

# compose

[Stylianos Gakis]

If I got a Shape which internally is a Shape.Generic, and I want to read its path, is my best bet to try to cast it to a Shape.Generic and use the path variable from it?

The context is that I want to take an existing shape, and create a new Shape.Generic by adding the path of that shape, and add another shape into it. I can’t do it using just Path() { addOutline(myShape); addPath(thatOtherPath) }, since I want that other path to go outside the bounds of my outline.

[Stylianos Gakis]

Basically trying to achieve this. And with casting to Shape.Generic and getting the path out of it, it works perfectly fine, but I wonder if there’s another way which would also work for non-generic shapes which doesn’t force me to force cast like that.

[Rebecca Franks]

There is an extension function on Path.addShape(), that allows you to add the shape to your path.. Might work?

[Stylianos Gakis]

Yeah, but I couldn’t do something like addOutline(outline, offset), it only accepts the outline exactly as it is, which didn’t let me move it a bit further down so that I get the space for the arrow on the top right.
This is what I’ve done now, which is take this squirle-ish shape and take its path with val squirclePath: Path = (squircleOutline as Outline.Generic).path so that I can then use it like addPath(path = squirclePath, offset = Offset(0f, arrowHeight)) so that I offset it accordingly.
It does work after all, just don’t love that cast part 😄

[Stylianos Gakis]

Oh I just read you said addShape not addPath but I don’t see that function. Might be in an artifact I am not pulling in right now.

[Stylianos Gakis]

No hits here https://cs.android.com/search?q=addShape 👀 Could it be that it’s some API that you’ve used before but isn’t available in the public code at least?