Question

What is the difference between getAnchor() and getCenter()?

Answer 1

Nothing really. For some reason our textbook author wrote a getCenter() method for Circles, but a getAnchor() method for Images and Text objects, even though it really does return the center point.

I thought it would be more uniform if EVERY shape had a getCenter() method, so I updated that when I created graphics2.py.

However, I didn't remove the getAnchor() method because I wanted to make sure all the book code/examples would still work with graphics2...

Comments

Would it be okay if we use getAnchor() method for every object or should we alternate between getCenter() and getAnchor() depending on the specific object type?

Answer 2

I was wondering the same thing. But when I look at it I believe that they are the same thing