Drawing on a CartesianDataCanvas - Any way to draw an ellipse that is partially off the chart?

Question

I'm attempting to draw a background to a chart. If I try to call

canvas.beginFill(0xff0000,1)
canvas.drawEllipse(10,200,300,-30);
canvas.endFill()

And -30 is outside the range of the chart, it won't draw anything. I want it to draw an ellipse that is cut off by the edge of the chart.

Answer 1

Isn't it just that width/height can't be negative ? So you would just have to offset X by -30 (-20) and leave the width at 30 ?

Answer 2

You can't draw with negative size values, I guess you've mixed up the order of the arguments somehow. This is the proper order:

public function drawEllipse(x:Number, y:Number, width:Number, height:Number):void

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