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Finished detailed explanation of the width, height, x, and y setting and

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1999-11-07  Federico Mena Quintero  <federico@redhat.com>

	* doc/tmpl/gnome-canvas-pixbuf.sgml: Finished detailed explanation
	of the width, height, x, and y setting and pixels arguments.
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@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Canvas item to display #GdkPixbuf images.
<para>
This canvas item displays #GdkPixbuf images. It handles full
affine transformations in both GDK and antialiased modes, and also
supports <ulink
supports the <ulink url="http://www.w3.org">W3C</ulink>'s <ulink
url="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/">SVG</ulink>-like scaling and
translation semantics for absolute pixel values.
</para>
@ -19,6 +19,123 @@ Canvas item to display #GdkPixbuf images.
functions for this.
</para>
<refsect2>
<title>Custom Scaling and Translation</title>
<para>
In addition to the normal affine transformations supported by
canvas items, the #GnomeCanvasPixbuf item supports independent
object arguments for scaling and translation. This is useful
for explicitly setting a size to which the pixbuf's image will
be scaled, and for specifying translation offsets that take
place in the item's local coordinate system.
</para>
<para>
By default, the pixbuf canvas item will attain the size in units
of the #GdkPixbuf it contains. If a #GnomeCanvasPixbuf is
configured to use a #GdkPixbuf that has a size of 300 by 200
pixels, then the pixbuf item will automatically obtain a size of
300 by 200 units in the item's local coordinate system. If the
item is transformed with a scaling transformation of (0.5, 2.0),
then the final image size will be of 150 by 400 pixels.
</para>
<para>
To set custom width and height values, you must set the <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--width-set">width_set</link> or <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--height-set">height_set</link>
arguments to %TRUE, and then set the <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--width">width</link> or <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--height">height</link> arguments to
the desired values. The former two arguments control whether
the latter two are used when computing the final image's size;
they are both %FALSE by default so that the pixbuf item will
attain a size in units equal to the size in pixels of the
#GdkPixbuf that the item contains.
</para>
<para>
The custom translation values are analogously controlled by the
<link linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--x-set">x_set</link>, <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--y-set">y_set</link>, <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--x">x</link>, and <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--y">y</link> arguments. The former
two control whether the custom translation offsets are used and
they are %FALSE by default, and the latter two control the
offsets themselves. If a custom translation offset is not used,
it is taken to be 0.0 by default. Otherwise, the logical
upper-left vertex of the image will be translated by the
specified distance, aligned with the item's local coordinate
system.
</para>
</refsect2>
<refsect2>
<title>Absolute Pixel Scaling and Translation</title>
<para>
The <ulink url="http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/">Scalable Vector
Graphics</ulink> specification (SVG) of the <ulink
url="http://www.w3.org">World Wide Web Consortium</ulink> also
allows images to be translated and scaled by absolute pixel
values that are independent of an item's normal affine
transformation.
</para>
<para>
Normally, the pixbuf item's translation and scaling arguments
are interpreted in units, so they will be modified by the item's
affine transformation. The <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--width-pixels">width_pixels</link>,
<link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--height-pixels">height_pixels</link>,
<link linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--x-pixels">x_pixels</link>, and
<link linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--y-pixels">y_pixels</link>
object arguments can be used to modify this behavior. If one of
these arguments is %TRUE, then the corresponding scaling or
translation value will not be affected lengthwise by the pixbuf
item's affine transformation.
</para>
<para>
For example, consider a pixbuf item whose size is (300, 200).
If the item is modified with a scaling transformation of (0.5,
2.0) but the <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--width-pixels">width_pixels</link> is
set to %TRUE, then the item will appear to be (300, 400) pixels
in size. This means that in this case the item's affine
transformation only applies to the height value, while the
width value is kept in absolute pixels.
</para>
<para>
Likewise, consider a pixbuf item whose (<link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--x">x</link>, <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--y">y</link>) arguments are set to
(30, 40)<footnote>
<para>
This of course assumes that the <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--x-set">x_set</link> and <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--y-set">y_set</link> arguments
are set to %TRUE for the translation offsets to take effect.
</para>
</footnote>. If the item is then modified by the same scaling
transformation of (0.5, 2.0) but the <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--y-pixels">y_pixels</link> argument
is set to %TRUE, then the image's upper-left corner will appear
to be at position (15, 40). In this case, the affine
transformation is applied only to the x offset, while the y
offset is kept in absolute pixels.
</para>
<para>
In short, these arguments control whether a particular dimension
of a pixbuf item is scaled or not in the normal way by the
item's affine transformation.
</para>
</refsect2>
<!-- ##### SECTION See_Also ##### -->
<para>
#GnomeCanvas, #GdkPixbuf
@ -124,9 +241,9 @@ Canvas item to display #GdkPixbuf images.
<para>
Indicates the horizontal translation offset of the pixbuf item's
image. This argument will only be used if the <link
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--x-set">x_set</link> argument is
%TRUE. This &lsquo;horizontal&rsquo; offset will actually be
modified by the item's affine transformation.
linkend="GnomeCanvasPixbuf--x-set">x_set</link> argument is %TRUE.
This offset may not actually appear horizontal, since it will be
affected by the item's affine transformation.
</para>
<!-- ##### ARG GnomeCanvasPixbuf:y_set ##### -->

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@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
1999-11-07 Federico Mena Quintero <federico@redhat.com>
* doc/tmpl/gnome-canvas-pixbuf.sgml: Finished detailed explanation
of the width, height, x, and y setting and pixels arguments.
1999-11-05 Federico Mena Quintero <federico@redhat.com>
* doc/gdk-pixbuf-sections.txt: Removed gdk-pixbuf-io, since it is