Hello all ! 🙂
In short, I’m trying to extract vertex from a svg but no matter how I do I always get an error:
**“getVertexCount() only works with PATH or GEOMETRY shapes”**
What I did was:
1. create a little sketch to draw on the screen and save it in a file as SVG ( I also tried with Inkscape)
2. I try to open it as explained here [https://processing.org/reference/PShape\_getChild\_.html](https://processing.org/reference/PShape_getChild_.html)
```auto
void setup() {
size(1000, 1000);
PShape ps = loadShape("test.svg");
shape(ps);
int children = ps.getChildCount();
for (int i = 0; i < children; i++) {
PShape child = ps.getChild(i);
int total = child.getVertexCount();
println(total);
}
}
```
If anyone has an idea, I’m curious to know …
TIA 😉
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Perhaps the `child` is a GROUP shape (this is valid), itself having multiple children – you may need to recurse over the shape to find all non-group shapes.
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