GraphicImage Object Description

The GraphicImage class encapsulates the necessary functionality to build images (GIFs, JPEG and PNG format) 'on the fly'. This functionality is useful in many situations, from the simple example of resizing a big user image to create a thumbnail, to dynamically generating charts.

This class is optionally part of Whitebeam if compiled with the --enable-gd flag (to configure). Switching this flag on links the Whitebeam presentation engine with the 'libgd' image library and to it's dependent libraries.

Methods

GraphicImage.create()	Create a new empty image of specified size.
GraphicImage.make()	Load an image from a file or from a binary object.
GraphicImage.clean()	Delete stored image associated with this GraphicImage
GraphicImage.write()	Write an image out to the client browser
GraphicImage.toBinary()	Write an image out to an instance of a the Binary class.
GraphicImage.copyRect()	Copy a rectangular area from one image to another
GraphicImage.copyRectRotate()	Rotate a rectangular area of a source image into a destination image
GraphicImage.colourAlloc()	Allocate a colour for use in drawing methods
GraphicImage.colourResolve()	Allocate a colour for use in drawing methods
GraphicImage.setPenThickness()	Set pen drawing thickness
GraphicImage.setPenStyle()	Set pen drawing style
GraphicImage.setClipRegion()	Limit drawing functions to a subset of the entire image
GraphicImage.drawPixels()	Set the colour for specific pixels within an image
GraphicImage.drawLine()	Draw a line between two points
GraphicImage.drawRectangle()	Draw a rectangle
GraphicImage.drawPolygon()	Draw a polygon
GraphicImage.drawArc()	Draw an arc - partial ellipse
GraphicImage.drawText()	Draw text into an image
GraphicImage.sharpen()	Sharpen a true-colour image
GraphicImage.alphaBlendMode()	Set the alpha channel merge mode
GraphicImage.alphaPreserve()	Configure how the GraphicImage will serialise alpha channel information on save

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