CGlue(3U)

✨ CGlue ✨ — connector glue

okay bestie, welcome to the InterViews Reference Manual entry for CGlue(3U), aka the little icon that keeps your connectors from drifting apart like situationships 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

CGlue — connector glue. it glues. it's the glue. that's the whole job 🫶

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <Unidraw/cglue.h>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so basically, CGlue is holding four whole personality traits, and it holds them in both directions:

• a natural size
• an elasticity (that's its rate of stretching and shrinking relative to other CGlue, so yes it's competitive, it's giving main character energy)
• deformation limits (the total amount it can stretch and shrink before it simply cannot)

and all of that applies to the horizontal AND the vertical dimension. no picking favorites 💅

you can interpose a CGlue between two connected connectors to augment their connectivity semantics — like a little vibe-check chaperone between them. it acts like two non-linear springs, one horizontal and one vertical, connecting the connectors' centers. iconic behavior, honestly. 🎀

👑 PUBLIC OPERATIONS 👑

🌈 CGlue(

CGlue(

    float hnat = 0, float vnat = 0,
    float hshr = 0, float hstr = 0,
    float vshr = 0, float vstr = 0,
    float hshrlim = 0, float hstrlim = 0,
    float vshrlim = 0, float vstrlim = 0
)

🌈 CGlue(const Shape&)

Instantiate a CGlue, bestie — either by handing over the requisite parameters explicitly, or by letting it infer them from a Shape object. lowkey magic, highkey useful ✨

if a shape IS supplied, here's the tea:

• the CGlue adopts the shape's natural size 🌱
• it assigns the shape's stretchability and shrinkability values to its corresponding CGlue elasticity members, so it gets a proportionately equivalent elasticity — the math is mathing 📐
• it ALSO assigns the shape's stretchability and shrinkability values to its deformation limit members. yes, both. the shape's values are doing double duty, and they're slaying at it 💅

and here are the parameters, described, no gatekeeping:

• hnat, vnat: horizontal and vertical natural sizes, screen units
• hshr, vshr: horizontal and vertical shrinking rate, constant units
• hstr, vstr: horizontal and vertical stretching rate, constant units
• hshrlim, vshrlim: horizontal and vertical shrink limit, screen units
• hstrlim, vstrlim: horizontal and vertical stretch limit, screen units

🍓 CGlue* Copy()

Create a copy of this CGlue instance. a twin. a clone. same vibe, different object 🫶

🍓 void Rigid()

Set all elasticity and deformation limits equal to zero. it's giving "no stretch, no shrink, no movement, we are STONE" 🪨 periodt.

🍓 void Interpose(const CGlue* glue)

Change this instance's attributes to reflect the series combination of this and glue. two glues walk in, one combined glue walks out 😭🔗

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Connector(3U)
• Shape(3I)

ngl bestie, if you got this far you're officially a CGlue girly. go forth and glue responsibly 💜

mwah 💋 this has been the CGlue(3U) page from the Unidraw manual, dated 23 November 1990 — yes she's vintage, yes she's still serving, and no, we are not copying the footer, we're giving it a cute little sign-off instead. bye bestie!! 🎀✨🌈