awt.geom.generalpath assistance

[Mike McMahon]

Hey Everyone,

I've been playing with the generalPath class, and am happy with how it works. I had previously looked at the awt.geom.Polygon class, but didn't like that it didn't accept floats.

Now that I'm using the generalpath class, I've noticed a big disadvantage from the polygon class - there's no npoints() method!. This method tells me how many points are in the path. I need to know this, because points (n=1), lines (n=2) and polygons (n>2) all need to be treated differently.

I've currently got, the following working - but it seems clunky. Can anyone either confirm that this is a good way to approach this, or suggest an alternative?

 GeneralPath p = path.getPath();
  p.moveTo(- 100.0f, - 25.0f);
  p.lineTo(+ 100.0f, - 25.0f);
  p.lineTo(- 50.0f, + 100.0f);
  p.lineTo(+ 0.0f, - 100.0f);
  p.lineTo(+ 50.0f, + 100.0f);
  p.closePath();
  
int vertexCount=0;
for (PathIterator i = p.getPathIterator(null);!i.isDone(); i.next()) {
        vertexCount=vertexCount+1;
            }
            
  if (vertexCount == 2) {
  out.println("point");
  }else if (vertexCount <4){
    out.println("line"); 
  }else {
  out.println("polygon");
  }