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Can a matrix be used when drawing lines and paths on android?

the DrawBitmap mathod takes a matrix as argument, I cannot find anything similar when drawing lines.

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The Android Canvas drawBitmap method uses the matrix to transform the image as it is drawn. See this URL for the details: "http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Canvas.html#drawBitmap(android.graphics.Bitmap, android.graphics.Matrix, android.graphics.Paint)" [sorry, the link is breaking at the commas, cut-n-paste url]

There are several drawLine methods on the Canvas object, but none take a matrix as a parameter. See "http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Canvas.html#drawLine(float, float, float, float, android.graphics.Paint)" [sorry, the link is breaking at the commas, cut-n-paste url]

Your best bet is to use one of the Canvas's rotate, skew, and translate methods. See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/Canvas.html

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Does this allow me to rotate, skew and translate every separate bitmap too? I am currently able to draw and transform a full hierarchical tree of objects (containing a bitmap, position and rotation vectors). This means if I translate the parent (e.g. world object) every sub-object transforms with it accordingly. If i only transform the canvas, is this still possible then? – Thomas Nov 27 '12 at 14:59
This may help you: stackoverflow.com/questions/8197656/… – amb Nov 27 '12 at 18:18
What I have now is more complex then this example since it concatenates matrices from the parent objects, when I apply the matrix to the canvas instead of the bitmap it gets messed up, but I will continue trying – Thomas Nov 27 '12 at 19:17

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