Re: About drawing primitives

[Chris Nystrom <ccn olenska hn org>]

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Esteban Quijano wrote:

> How can I use gdk drawing primitives with arbitrary colors, instead of using
> the typical 'widget->style->...' found in most sample code.

You need to create your own graphics context.
 
> I'd like for example to do something like:
> 
> gdk_draw_rectangle(
> 	widget->window,
> 	/* DarkViolet */  <----
> 	TRUE, 0, 0,
> 	widget->allocation.width,
> 	widget->allocation.height);
> 
> How can I pass a DarViolet or LightGreen GdkGC to the drawing primitive
> function?

Below is the example scribble program modified to use blue instead of
black.
 
> How can I use specific RGB values such as RGB(128, 32, 41)?

I use something like this:

void
color_foreground_set(int red, int green, int blue)
{
  color_fg.red = red * 255;
  color_fg.green = green * 255;
  color_fg.blue = blue * 255;

  gdk_color_alloc(colormap, &color_fg);

  gdk_gc_set_foreground(gc, &color_fg);
}

So all you would have to do is call like this:

color_foreground_set(128, 32, 41);

Hope this helps,
Chris

--
/* example-start scribble-simple scribble-simple.c */

/* GTK - The GIMP Toolkit
 * Copyright (C) 1995-1997 Peter Mattis, Spencer Kimball and Josh
 *                           MacDonald
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Library General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, write to the
 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
 * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 */

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

/* Backing pixmap for drawing area */
static GdkPixmap *pixmap = NULL;

static GdkColormap *colormap = NULL;
static GdkGC *gc = NULL;
static GdkColor color_fg;

/* Create a new backing pixmap of the appropriate size */
static gint configure_event( GtkWidget         *widget,
                             GdkEventConfigure *event )
{
  if (pixmap)
    gdk_pixmap_unref(pixmap);

  pixmap = gdk_pixmap_new(widget->window,
                          widget->allocation.width,
                          widget->allocation.height,
                          -1);

  gdk_draw_rectangle (pixmap,
                      widget->style->white_gc,
                      TRUE,
                      0, 0,
                      widget->allocation.width,
                      widget->allocation.height);

  if (gc != NULL)
    gdk_gc_unref(gc);

  if (colormap == NULL)
  {
    colormap = gdk_colormap_get_system();
    gc = gdk_gc_new(widget->window);
  }

  gdk_color_parse("blue", &color_fg);

  gdk_color_alloc(colormap, &color_fg);

  gdk_gc_set_foreground(gc, &color_fg);

  return TRUE;
}

/* Redraw the screen from the backing pixmap */
static gint expose_event( GtkWidget      *widget,
                          GdkEventExpose *event )
{
  gdk_draw_pixmap(widget->window,
                  widget->style->fg_gc[GTK_WIDGET_STATE (widget)],
                  pixmap,
                  event->area.x, event->area.y,
                  event->area.x, event->area.y,
                  event->area.width, event->area.height);

  return FALSE;
}

/* Draw a rectangle on the screen */
static void draw_brush( GtkWidget *widget,
                        gdouble    x,
                        gdouble    y)
{
  GdkRectangle update_rect;

  update_rect.x = x - 5;
  update_rect.y = y - 5;
  update_rect.width = 10;
  update_rect.height = 10;
  gdk_draw_rectangle (pixmap,
                      gc,
                      TRUE,
                      update_rect.x, update_rect.y,
                      update_rect.width, update_rect.height);
  gtk_widget_draw (widget, &update_rect);
}

static gint button_press_event( GtkWidget      *widget,
                                GdkEventButton *event )
{
  if (event->button == 1 && pixmap != NULL)
    draw_brush (widget, event->x, event->y);

  return TRUE;
}

static gint motion_notify_event( GtkWidget *widget,
                                 GdkEventMotion *event )
{
  int x, y;
  GdkModifierType state;

  if (event->is_hint)
    gdk_window_get_pointer (event->window, &x, &y, &state);
  else
    {
      x = event->x;
      y = event->y;
      state = event->state;
    }

  if (state & GDK_BUTTON1_MASK && pixmap != NULL)
    draw_brush (widget, x, y);

  return TRUE;
}

void quit ()
{
  gtk_exit (0);
}

int main( int   argc,
          char *argv[] )
{
  GtkWidget *window;
  GtkWidget *drawing_area;
  GtkWidget *vbox;

  GtkWidget *button;

  gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

  window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
  gtk_widget_set_name (window, "Test Input");

  vbox = gtk_vbox_new (FALSE, 0);
  gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), vbox);
  gtk_widget_show (vbox);

  gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (window), "destroy",
                      GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (quit), NULL);

  /* Create the drawing area */
  drawing_area = gtk_drawing_area_new ();
  gtk_drawing_area_size (GTK_DRAWING_AREA (drawing_area), 200, 200);
  gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (vbox), drawing_area, TRUE, TRUE, 0);

  gtk_widget_show (drawing_area);

  /* Signals used to handle backing pixmap */

  gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (drawing_area), "expose_event",
                      (GtkSignalFunc) expose_event, NULL);
  gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT(drawing_area),"configure_event",
                      (GtkSignalFunc) configure_event, NULL);

  /* Event signals */

  gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (drawing_area), "motion_notify_event",
                      (GtkSignalFunc) motion_notify_event, NULL);
  gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (drawing_area), "button_press_event",
                      (GtkSignalFunc) button_press_event, NULL);

  gtk_widget_set_events (drawing_area, GDK_EXPOSURE_MASK
                         | GDK_LEAVE_NOTIFY_MASK
                         | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK
                         | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK
                         | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK);

  /* .. And a quit button */
  button = gtk_button_new_with_label ("Quit");
  gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (vbox), button, FALSE, FALSE, 0);

  gtk_signal_connect_object (GTK_OBJECT (button), "clicked",
                             GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (gtk_widget_destroy),
                             GTK_OBJECT (window));
  gtk_widget_show (button);

  gtk_widget_show (window);

  gtk_main ();

  return 0;
}
/* example-end */