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## libAfterImage/tutorials/ASGrad

NAME

     Tutorial 5: Gradients.

SYNOPSIS

     libAfterImage application for drawing multipoint linear gradients.

DESCRIPTION

     New steps described in this tutorial are :
     ASGrad.1. Building gradient specs.
     ASGrad.2. Actual rendering gradient.

SEE ALSO

     Tutorial 1: ASView  - explanation of basic steps needed to use
                           libAfterImage and some other simple things.
     Tutorial 2: ASScale - image scaling basics.
     Tutorial 3: ASTile  - image tiling and tinting.
     Tutorial 4: ASMerge - scaling and blending of arbitrary number of
                           images.

SOURCE

        #include <libAfterImage/afterbase.h>
        #include <libAfterImage/afterimage.h>
        #include "common.h"

        ARGB32 default_colors[] = {
            0xFF000000,
            0xFF700070,                                /* violet */
            0xFF0000FF,                                /* blue   */
            0xFF00FFFF,                                /* cyan   */
            0xFF00FF00,
            0XFFFFFF00,
            0XFFFF0000,
            0XFF700000,
            0xFF8080A0,
            0xFFE0E0FF,
        };
        double default_offsets[] = { 0, 0.1, 0.15, 0.20, 0.35, 0.45, 0.50, 0.55, 0.65, 0.8, 1.0} ;

        void usage()
        {
            printf( "  Usage: asgrad -h | <geometry> <gradient_type> <color1> <offset2> <color2> [ <offset3> <color3> ...]\n");
            printf( "  Where: geometry - size of the resulting image and window;\n");
            printf( "         gradient_type - One of the fiollowing values :\n");
            printf( "            0 - linear   left-to-right gradient,\n");
            printf( "            1 - diagonal lefttop-to-rightbottom,\n");
            printf( "            2 - linear   top-to-bottom gradient,\n");
            printf( "            3 - diagonal righttop-to-leftbottom;\n");
            printf( "         offset   - floating point value from 0.0 to 1.0\n");
        }

        int main(int argc, char* argv[])
        {
            ASVisual *asv ;
            int screen = 0, depth = 0;
            int dummy, geom_flags = 0;
            unsigned int to_width, to_height ;
            ASGradient grad ;
            ASGradient default_grad = { 1, 10, &(default_colors[0]), &(default_offsets[0])} ;
            ASImage *grad_im = NULL;

            /* see ASView.1 : */
            set_application_name( argv[0] );
        #if (HAVE_AFTERBASE_FLAG==1)
            set_output_threshold(OUTPUT_LEVEL_DEBUG);
        #endif

            if( argc > 1 )
            {
                if( strcmp( argv[1], "-h") == 0 )
                {
                    usage();
                    return 0;
                }
                /* see ASScale.1 : */
                geom_flags = XParseGeometry( argv[1], &dummy, &dummy,
                                             &to_width, &to_height );
            }else
                usage();
            memset( &grad, 0x00, sizeof(ASGradient));

        #ifndef X_DISPLAY_MISSING
            dpy = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
            _XA_WM_DELETE_WINDOW = XInternAtom( dpy, "WM_DELETE_WINDOW", False);
            screen = DefaultScreen(dpy);
            depth = DefaultDepth( dpy, screen );
        #endif

            if( argc >= 5 )
            {
                int i = 2;
                /* see ASGrad.1 : */
                grad.type = atoi( argv[2] );
                grad.npoints = 0 ;
                grad.color = safemalloc( ((argc-2)/2)*sizeof(ARGB32));
                grad.offset = safemalloc( ((argc-2)/2)*sizeof(double));
                while( ++i < argc )
                {
                    if( grad.npoints > 0 )
                    {
                        if( i == argc-1 )
                            grad.offset[grad.npoints] = 1.0;
                        else
                            grad.offset[grad.npoints] = atof( argv[i] );
                        ++i ;
                    }

                    /* see ASTile.1 : */
                    if( parse_argb_color( argv[i], &(grad.color[grad.npoints])) != argv[i] )
                        if(grad.offset[grad.npoints] >= 0. && grad.offset[grad.npoints]<= 1.0 )
                            grad.npoints++ ;
                }
            }else
            {
                grad = default_grad ;
                if( argc >= 3 )
                    grad.type = atoi( argv[2] );
            }

            if( grad.npoints <= 0 )
            {
                show_error( " not enough gradient points specified.");
                return 1;
            }

            /* Making sure tiling geometry is sane : */
        #ifndef X_DISPLAY_MISSING
            if( !get_flags(geom_flags, WidthValue ) )
                to_width  = DisplayWidth(dpy, screen)*2/3 ;
            if( !get_flags(geom_flags, HeightValue ) )
                to_height = DisplayHeight(dpy, screen)*2/3 ;
        #else
            if( !get_flags(geom_flags, WidthValue ) )
                to_width  = 500 ;
            if( !get_flags(geom_flags, HeightValue ) )
                to_height = 500 ;
        #endif
            printf( "%s: rendering gradient of type %d to %dx%d\n",
                    get_application_name(), grad.type&GRADIENT_TYPE_MASK, to_width, to_height );

            /* see ASView.3 : */
            asv = create_asvisual( dpy, screen, depth, NULL );
            /* see ASGrad.2 : */
            grad_im = make_gradient( asv, &grad, to_width, to_height,
                                     SCL_DO_ALL,
        #ifndef X_DISPLAY_MISSING
                                     ASA_XImage,
        #else
                                     ASA_ASImage,
        #endif
                                     0, ASIMAGE_QUALITY_DEFAULT );
            if( grad_im )
            {
        #ifndef X_DISPLAY_MISSING
                /* see ASView.4 : */
                Window w = create_top_level_window( asv,
                                                    DefaultRootWindow(dpy), 32, 32,
                                                    to_width, to_height, 1, 0, NULL,
                                                    "ASGradient" );
                if( w != None )
                {
                    Pixmap p ;

                    XMapRaised   (dpy, w);
                    /* see ASView.5 : */
                    p = asimage2pixmap( asv, DefaultRootWindow(dpy), grad_im,
                                        NULL, True );
                    destroy_asimage( &grad_im );
                    /* see common.c: set_window_background_and_free() : */
                    p = set_window_background_and_free( w, p );
                    /* see common.c: wait_closedown() : */
                    wait_closedown(w);
                }
                if( dpy )
                    XCloseDisplay (dpy);
        #else
                ASImage2file( grad_im, NULL, "asgrad.jpg", ASIT_Jpeg, NULL );
                destroy_asimage( &grad_im );
        #endif
            }
            return 0 ;
        }

## libAfterImage/tutorials/ASGrad.1

SYNOPSIS

     Step 1. Building gradient specs.

DESCRIPTION

     Multipoint gradient is defined as set of color values with offsets
     of each point from the beginning of the gradient on 1.0 scale.
     Offsets of the first and last point in gradient should always be
     0. and 1.0 respectively, and other points should go in between.
     For example 2 point gradient will have always offsets 0. and 1.0,
     3 points gradient will have 0. for first color, 1.0 for last color
     and anything in between for middle color.
     If offset is incorrect - point will be skipped at the time of
     rendering.

     There are 4 types of gradients supported : horizontal, top-left to
     bottom-right diagonal, vertical and top-right to bottom-left diagonal.
     Any cilindrical gradient could be drawn as a 3 point gradient with
     border colors being the same.

     Each gradient point has ARGB color, which means that it is possible
     to draw gradients in alpha channel as well as RGB. That makes for
     semitransparent gradients, fading gradients, etc.

EXAMPLE

        grad.type = atoi( argv[2] );
            grad.npoints = 0 ;
            grad.color = safemalloc( ((argc-2)/2)*sizeof(ARGB32));
            grad.offset = safemalloc( ((argc-2)/2)*sizeof(double));
            while( ++i < argc )
            {
                if( grad.npoints > 0 )
                {
                    if( i == argc-1 )
                        grad.offset[grad.npoints] = 1.0;
                    else
                        grad.offset[grad.npoints] = atof( argv[i] );
                    ++i ;
                }
            if( parse_argb_color( argv[i], &(grad.color[grad.npoints]))
                  != argv[i] )
                    if(grad.offset[grad.npoints] >= 0. &&
                     grad.offset[grad.npoints]<= 1.0 )
                        grad.npoints++ ;
            }

SEE ALSO

     ARGB32, parse_argb_color(), ASGradient

## libAfterImage/tutorials/ASGrad.2

SYNOPSIS

     Step 2. Actually rendering gradient.

DESCRIPTION

     All that is needed to draw gradient is to call make_gradient(),
     passing pointer to ASGradient structure, that describes gradient.
     Naturally size of the gradient is needed too. Another parameter is
     filter - that is a bit mask that allows to draw gradient using only a
     subset of the channels, represented by set bits. SCL_DO_ALL means
     that all 4 channels must be rendered.
     make_gradient() creates ASImage of requested size and fills it with
     gradient. Special techinque based on error diffusion is utilized to
     avoid sharp steps between grades of colors when limited range of
     colors is used for gradient.

EXAMPLE

            grad_im = make_gradient( asv, &grad, to_width, to_height,
                                     SCL_DO_ALL,
                                 ASA_XImage, 0, ASIMAGE_QUALITY_DEFAULT );

NOTES

     make_gradient(), ASScanline, ASImage.