Method build

utils/src/presentation.py:619–669

Recreates the freeform geometry on the slide using a FreeformBuilder. Note: If you loaded this shape from an existing slide, you may already have it in place. Typically, build() is used when exporting back to PPTX from your internal representation. If you don't need

(self, slide: PPTXSlide)

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    def build(self, slide: PPTXSlide):
        """
        Recreates the freeform geometry on the slide using a FreeformBuilder.

        Note: If you loaded this shape from an existing slide, you may already
        have it in place. Typically, build() is used when exporting back to PPTX
        from your internal representation. If you don't need to reconstruct (because
        the shape already exists), you can simply no-op here. This is an example of 
        how you'd do it if you needed to fully recreate geometry.
        """
        # Retrieve your geometry data
        left = self.data["left"]
        top = self.data["top"]
        width = self.data["width"]
        height = self.data["height"]
        points = self.data["points"]
        closed = self.data["closed"]

        # Start the builder at the first point (or top-left, etc.).
        # This is completely up to you how you define your local coordinate system.
        if points:
            first_x, first_y = points[0]
        else:
            # Default to top-left if no data
            first_x, first_y = (0, 0)

        builder = slide.shapes.build_freeform(left + first_x, top + first_y)

        # Now add line segments for the rest of the points (if any).
        # This is an example usage:
        if len(points) > 1:
            # Skip the first point since we used it in build_freeform(...) above
            builder.add_line_segments(points[1:], close=closed)

        # Convert to a shape
        shape = builder.convert_to_shape()

        # Possibly apply local styling, rotation, lines, etc.
        shape.name = self.data["name"]
        apply_fill(shape, self.style.get("fill"))
        if self.style.get("line") is not None:
            apply_fill(shape.line, self.style["line"]["fill"])
            dict_to_object(self.style["line"], shape.line, exclude=["fill"])

        # If you have a bounding box in .style["shape_bounds"], apply it:
        if "shape_bounds" in self.style:
            dict_to_object(self.style["shape_bounds"], shape)
        if "rotation" in self.style:
            shape.rotation = self.style["rotation"]

        return shape

    def to_html(self, style_args: StyleArg) -> str:
        """