On 2017-10-04 11:53+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote:
On 3 October 2017 at 18:00, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
On 2017-10-03 11:24+0100 Phil Rosenberg wrote:
Hi Alan
It may be possible to do as you said with a clip region and an affine
transform. I did consider this but I am not sure if the gradient gets
transformed or just the polygon shape. I would have to check.
Regarding inheritance, you have the correct syntax. wxDC and
wxGraphicsContext are pretty close to top level classes so only
inherit from wxObject, which many wxWidgets classes inherit from and I
think it basically allows conversion between classes and strings which
specify the class name. If you look in the docs,
e.g.http://docs.wxwidgets.org/3.1/classwx_d_c.html, there is usually
an inheritance diagram. You have access to all the functions towards
the base of the tree, but the magic of C++ is that the behaviour of
some of the functions can be redefined towards the branches of a tree
by using the virtual specifier. So for example wxDC has a virtual
function DrawLines. So if I have a pointer to a wxDC I can always call
myDcPointer->DrawLines(/*params*/). But then if that pointer actually
points to an inherited class then the inherited class's version of
that function is called, so a wxPostscriptDC would write the vector to
the file, a wxMemoryDC would work out which pixels need shading and
shade them, etc.
Hi Phil:
I don't claim to understand everything you have said above in your
second paragraph, but if the upshot is there are C++ ways to give us
access to all wxWidget library methods regardless of the class they
are in, then I suggest the most promising way forward (since the
documentation does not mention any limitations on this brush) is
likely to be to use wxGraphicsContext::CreateLinearGradientBrush
rather than wxDC::GradientFillLinear (which does have many documented
limitations).
No, sadly it does not. I can only access functions that are in wxDC.
wxGraphicsContext is neither a parent nor a child class to wxDC, it is
totally unrelated.
The wxGCDC class is a child of wxDC. It takes wxDC commands and then
calls equivalent wxGraphicsContext commands. This is how we make use
of the wxGraphicsContexts rendering.
Hi Phil:
Please follow up with the
wxWidgets gurus you know to confirm whether
wxGraphicsContext::CreateLinearGradientBrush would provide linear
gradients in arbitrary directions to fill an arbitrary polygon. The
SVG file format as well as pango/cairo and Qt libraries support such
gradients so our standalone svg device and all our "cairo" and "qt"
devices support native gradients. So I am pretty sure that
wxGraphicsContext::CreateLinearGradientBrush does support such
gradients (because the documentation mentioning no limitations and I
assume the wxWidgets developers would like to keep up with their
competition). But it is essential to get that confirmed.
Once confirmed, then the obvious next question is why are we using a
subset of the wxGraphicsContext class indirectly via the wxGCDC class
rather than using the wxGraphicsContext class directly (which would
provide important native gradient capability for the new wxwidgets
device driver)?
Alan
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