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cCairoContext[]

Contains all the functions and properties to draw elements into a cairo surface.

Example[]

'First we need a Surface, which is a "physical thing" (a real Render-Target)
  Dim Srf As cCairoSurface
  'a Cairo-Image-Surface is something like an allocated InMemory-Bitmap (a hDIB)
  Set Srf = Cairo.CreateSurface(200, 100, ImageSurface)
 
 
  'Ok, now the drawing - to be able to do so, we need a Context first ...
  'and the CC below is something like an hDC in GDI, but ...
  Dim CC As cCairoContext
  'unlike in GDI, where we would "Select" a Bitmap into a hDC first...
  'with Cairo we can create such a CC "anytime" from any Surface
  'in a non-expensive Operation (this does not need larger CPU-cycles)
  Set CC = Srf.CreateContext
 
  'the following two lines ensure a complete Surface-Fill
  CC.SetSourceColor vbWhite
  CC.Paint
 
  'before our first rectangle, just a comment about Pixels and Scaling:
  'Cairos Image-Surfaces are "normal Bitmaps" - and in this example we've
  'created a 200x100 Pixel-Surface (with 32Bit ColorDepth) - the initial
  'x/y Scaling-Factors of a new created CairoContext (our CC) are 1 ...
  'and Scale 1 means, that the given Coords work "Pixelbased" (as in GDI)
  CC.Rectangle 10, 10, 180, 80
  'Oh, and the above line has not drawn anything to the Pixel-Surface yet,
  'it is only a Path-Definition ..., so if we want to Fill this Path, we
  'must tell it explicitely - first (yet before the Fill-Command), a Color:
  CC.SetSourceColor vbYellow
  CC.Fill '<-only now the Pixel within our Path are filled and the Surface-Content is changed
 
  'Ok, finally some Textoutput, otherwise it wouldn't be a Hello-World-Demo ;-)
  CC.SelectFont "Times New Roman", 25, vbRed
  CC.TextOut 25, 30, "Hello Cairo"

 
  'and this is our final "beam-up-into-the-Windows-World" ... if we want
  'the Cairo-PixelBuffers (the Surface-Contents) on our Windows-Screen,
  'we have to use the GDI finally - Srf.DrawToDC is internally (stretch-)blitting
  'our "Cairo-Pixels" and expects an hDC-Parameter for that
  Srf.DrawToDC hDC, 20, 20

Methods[]

  • Sub AppendPath(Path As cCairoPath)
  • Sub ARC(xc As Double, yc As Double, Radius As Double, [angle1 As Double], [angle2 As Double = 6,28318530717959])
  • Sub ArcNegative(xc As Double, yc As Double, Radius As Double, [angle1 As Double], [angle2 As Double = 6,28318530717959])
  • Sub CalcTextRowsInfo(Text As String, AvailableWidth As Single, MultiLine As Boolean, OnlyOnLineBreaks As Boolean, RowsCharCount() As Long, RowsCharOffset() As Long, RowCount As Long, MaxRowExtents As Single)
  • Sub ClearPath([CurrentPointOnly As Boolean])
  • Sub Clip([PreservePath As Boolean])
  • Sub ClipExplicit(X As Double, y As Double, Width As Double, Height As Double)
  • Sub ClosePath()
  • Sub ColorSplit(Color As Long, R As Double, G As Double, B As Double, [Shade As Double = 1], [lR As Long], [lG As Long], [LB As Long])
  • Function CopyPath([AsFlatPath As Boolean], [FlatPrecision As Double = 0,1]) As cCairoPath
  • Sub CurveTo(X1 As Double, Y1 As Double, X2 As Double, Y2 As Double, x3 As Double, y3 As Double)
  • Sub DeviceToUserDistance(dx As Double, dy As Double)
  • Sub DeviceToUserDistanceSingle(dx As Single, dy As Single)
  • Sub DeviceToUserPoint(X As Double, y As Double)
  • Sub DeviceToUserPointSingle(X As Single, y As Single)
  • Sub DrawLine(X1 As Double, Y1 As Double, X2 As Double, Y2 As Double, [DrawInsideBounds As Boolean], [LineWidth As Double], [Color As Long = -1], [Alpha As Double = 1])
  • Sub DrawRegularPolygon(cx As Double, cy As Double, R As Double, SideCount As Long, [BSplineInterpolation As SplineInterpolationEnm], [R_Inner])
  • Function DrawText(X As Double, y As Double, dx As Double, dy As Double, S As String, [SingleLine As Boolean], [Alignment As AlignmentConstants], [InnerSpace As Long], [VAlign As Long], [ExtendedFlags As DTExtFlagsEnm], [Alpha As Double = 1], [PathOnly As Boolean], [MaxDxNeeded As Double]) As Long
  • Sub DrawTextCell(X As Double, y As Double, dx As Double, dy As Double, Text As String, [SingleLine As Boolean], [Alignment As AlignmentConstants], [InnerSpace As Double = 1], [FillColor As Long = 16777215], [GradientShade As Double], [LineColor As Long], [LineWidth As Double = 0,5])
  • Sub Ellipse(X As Double, y As Double, Width As Double, Height As Double, [DrawInsideBounds As Boolean])
  • Sub EllipticArcTo(rx As Double, ry As Double, xAxisRotDeg As Double, LargeArc As Boolean, Sweep As Boolean, X As Double, y As Double)
  • Sub Fill([DontClosePath As Boolean], [Pattern As cCairoPattern])
  • Function GetCharsFittingExtentPtr(pS As Long, CharCount As Long, Extent As Double) As Long
  • Sub GetClipExtents(X1 As Double, Y1 As Double, X2 As Double, Y2 As Double)
  • Sub GetCurrentPoint(X As Double, y As Double)
  • Sub GetCurrentPointSingle(X As Single, y As Single)
  • Sub GetFillExtents(X1 As Double, Y1 As Double, X2 As Double, Y2 As Double)
  • Function GetFontHeight([TextHeight As Double]) As Double
  • Function GetLineCap() As cairo_line_cap_enm
  • Function GetLineJoin() As cairo_line_join_enm
  • Function GetLineWidth() As Double
  • Function GetMiterLimit() As Double
  • Sub GetPathExtents(X1 As Double, Y1 As Double, X2 As Double, Y2 As Double)
  • Sub GetStrokeExtents(X1 As Double, Y1 As Double, X2 As Double, Y2 As Double)
  • Function GetTextExtentPtr(PText As Long, CharCount As Long) As Double
  • Function GetTextExtents(Text As String, [FontHeight As Double = -1], [TextHeight As Double = -1]) As Double
  • Function InFill(X As Double, y As Double) As Boolean
  • Function InStroke(X As Double, y As Double) As Boolean
  • Sub LineTo(X As Double, y As Double)
  • Sub Mask(Pattern As cCairoPattern)
  • Sub MaskSurface(Surface As cCairoSurface, [SrfX As Double], [SrfY As Double])
  • Sub MatrixAddTransform(Matrix As cCairoMatrix)
  • Function MatrixResetToIdentity() As cCairoMatrix
  • Sub MoveTo(X As Double, y As Double)
  • Sub Paint([Alpha As Double = 1], [Pattern As cCairoPattern])
  • Sub Polygon(Points() As Double, [ClosePath As Boolean], [BSplineInterpolation As SplineInterpolationEnm], [BSplineClamp As Boolean], [MeetControlPoints As Boolean])
  • Sub PolygonPtr(DoublePtr As Long, PairsCount As Long, [ClosePath As Boolean], [BSplineInterpolation As SplineInterpolationEnm], [BSplineClamp As Boolean], [MeetControlPoints As Boolean])
  • Sub PolygonSingle(Points() As Single, [ClosePath As Boolean], [BSplineInterpolation As SplineInterpolationEnm], [BSplineClamp As Boolean], [MeetControlPoints As Boolean])
  • Sub PolygonSinglePtr(SinglePtr As Long, PairsCount As Long, [ClosePath As Boolean], [BSplineInterpolation As SplineInterpolationEnm], [BSplineClamp As Boolean], [MeetControlPoints As Boolean])
  • Function PopGroup([ResetClip As Boolean], [Extend As cairo_extend_enm = CAIRO_EXTEND_NONE]) As cCairoPattern
  • Sub PushGroup([Content As cairo_content_enm = CAIRO_CONTENT_COLOR_ALPHA], [ClipX As Double], [ClipY As Double], [ClipDX As Double], [ClipDY As Double])
  • Sub Rectangle(X As Double, y As Double, Width As Double, Height As Double, [DrawInsideBounds As Boolean])
  • Sub RelCurveTo(DX1 As Double, DY1 As Double, DX2 As Double, DY2 As Double, DX3 As Double, DY3 As Double)
  • Sub RelEllipticArcTo(rx As Double, ry As Double, xAxisRotDeg As Double, LargeArc As Boolean, Sweep As Boolean, X As Double, y As Double)
  • Sub RelLineTo(dx As Double, dy As Double)
  • Sub RelMoveTo(dx As Double, dy As Double)
  • Sub RenderSurfaceContent(SurfaceOrImageListKey, DstX As Double, DstY As Double, [DstDX As Double], [DstDY As Double], [Filter As cairo_filter_enm = CAIRO_FILTER_GOOD], [Alpha As Double = 1], [KeepAspectRatio As Boolean])
  • Sub RenderSurfaceWithinCorners(SurfaceOrImageListKey, X1 As Double, Y1 As Double, X2 As Double, Y2 As Double, x3 As Double, y3 As Double, X4 As Double, Y4 As Double, [Alpha As Double = 1], [StepWidth As Double = 2], [StepOverlap As Double = 2,5])
  • Sub ResetClip()
  • Sub Restore()
  • Sub RotateDrawings(Angle As Double)
  • Sub RotateDrawingsDeg(Angle As Double)
  • Sub RoundedRect(X As Double, y As Double, Width As Double, Height As Double, Radius As Double, [DrawInsideBounds As Boolean], [CornerMask As CornerMaskEnm = cmAll], [CornersOnly As Boolean])
  • Sub Save()
  • Sub ScaleDrawings(sX As Double, sY As Double)
  • Sub SelectFont(Name As String, SIZE As Double, [TextColor As Long], [Bold As Boolean], [Italic As Boolean], [Underline As Boolean], [StrikeThrough As Boolean])
  • Sub SetDashes(Offset As Double, ParamArray DashSequence() As Variant)
  • Sub SetLineCap(LineCap As cairo_line_cap_enm)
  • Sub SetLineJoin(LineJoin As cairo_line_join_enm)
  • Sub SetLineWidth(LineWidth As Double, [RoundToFullPixels As Boolean])
  • Sub SetMiterLimit(MiterLimit As Double)
  • Sub SetSourceColor(Color As Long, [Alpha As Double = 1], [Shade As Double = 1])
  • Sub SetSourcePattern(Pattern As cCairoPattern)
  • Sub SetSourceRGB(R As Double, G As Double, B As Double)
  • Sub SetSourceRGBA(R As Double, G As Double, B As Double, [A As Double = 1])
  • Sub SetSourceSurface(Surface As cCairoSurface, [xOffs As Double], [yOffs As Double])
  • Sub Stroke([DontClosePath As Boolean], [Pattern As cCairoPattern])
  • Sub TextOut(X As Double, y As Double, Text As String, [BaseLine As Boolean], [Alpha As Double = 1], [PathOnly As Boolean])
  • Sub TextOutPtr(X As Double, y As Double, PText As Long, CharCount As Long, [BaseLine As Boolean], [Alpha As Double = 1], [PathOnly As Boolean], [ShapeOnly As Boolean])
  • Function ToBSTR(B() As Byte, [CodePage As MSCodePages = CP_UTF8]) As String
  • Sub TranslateDrawings(tX As Double, tY As Double)
  • Sub TranslateOLEColor(Color As Long)
  • Sub UserToDeviceDistance(dx As Double, dy As Double)
  • Sub UserToDeviceDistanceSingle(dx As Single, dy As Single)
  • Sub UserToDevicePoint(X As Double, y As Double)
  • Sub UserToDevicePointSingle(X As Single, y As Single)

Properties[]

  • Property AntiAlias As cairo_antialias_enm
  • Property FillRule As cairo_fill_rule_enm
  • Property hCR As Long

    read-only

  • Property Matrix As cCairoMatrix
  • Property Operator As cairo_operator_enm
  • Property Surface As cCairoSurface

    read-only

  • Property Tolerance As Double
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