On 12/8/06, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...226...> wrote:
I can imagine you'd want to incorporate the stroke whenever you're interested in determining the area covered by the shape (when doing things like hit-testing, or indeed when exporting a bitmap), but when the size of the shape is displayed to the user (and when creating tilings for example) I think it makes a lot less sense.
I guess that's subjective and depends on what kind of work you do. For technical drawing, you are perhaps more interested in sizes that disregard strokes. But for artistic drawings, the "size" of an object is synonymous to its area coverage. And it's not only about the size displayed in the toolbar. It's also affects the displayed selection box (which may look rather unintuitive without taking stroke into account if the stroke is wide enough) and scaling behavior (which may be weird if you have a small object with wide stroke).