drawing

Android: How to get a custom view to redraw partially?

I have a custom view that fills my entire screen. (A piano keyboard) When a user touches the key, it causes invalidate() to be called and the whole keyboard gets redrawn to show the new state with a touched key. Currently the view is very simple, but I plan to add a bit more nice graphics. Since the whole keyboard is dynamically rendere...

How to draw a map from images?

I want to write a navigator application, which draws maps from images. Maps need to be drawn dynamically, based on user's navigation. My idea is loading 9 images into memory, and then create a view to show needed map: When user navigates, the view is moved. When needed, images which no longer seen will be destroyed, and new ones will ...

WPF: Convert VisualBrush to Drawing?

Hello, I have a VisualBrush and need this VisualBrush as a Drawing. Anyone knows how this can be done? Thanks for any hint! ...

Drawing Mirrored Text

I'm trying to draw mirrored (as in, it looks like you held it up to a mirror) text, and I want to do it the easiest way possible. It is possible to do a transform on a UILabel? Or do I have to use Quartz and do CGContextShowTextAtPoint() ? ...

How refresh a DrawingArea in PyGTK ?

I have an interface created with Glade. It contains a DrawingArea and buttons. I tried to create a Thread to refresh every X time my Canva. After a few seconds, I get error messages like: "X Window Server 0.0", "Fatal Error IO 11" Here is my code : import pygtk pygtk.require("2.0") import gtk import Canvas import threading as T impor...

android canvas draw mysteriously clipped

My android app draws a chart on a Canvas. It works fine in the simulator. On a real device the chart is clipped to the left 1/5 of the screen. I've tried: canvas.clipRect(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight(), Region.Op.REPLACE); to clear the clipping. Am I missing something? Does layering have anything to do with this? Tha...

Showing a image created with the GC lib

i have my test.php: <?php echo "Image:<br/>"; include('draw.php'); ?> and my draw.php: <?php $img = imagecreate(250,80); ... header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); imagejpeg($img); imagedestroy($img); ?> now, visiting test.php tells me that headers is already sent. How do i show the image in draw.php "realtime" (not by saving t...

IE Drawing methods in CSS/Javascript

Hi, In <insert non-IE browser here> there is the <canvas> element that allows for doing some fairly advanced drawing. In IE it's possible to draw with <div> elements, but that can get pretty slow if you're doing anything more than a few basic tasks. Is there anything available in IE 5+, in pure HTML/CSS/Javascript, that can allows for ...

Best way to draw a bar chart in LaTeX?

I was looking for it here in Stack Overflow as in Google, and I found a lot of packages to draw, but it seems a complex task, so I would like to know which is the most appropriate package to draw bars, and associate data to it. Also I was looking for a code example, but I did not have luck. ...

Drawing graphs on java

I want to draw graphs (nodes and edges) in Java. However, since I don't know how to go about it, I would like to have some advice before starting. How should I do this? use Graphics2D package, right? How about the labels for the nodes? should I use something like drawString and handle all the "centering" manually or create a JLabel fo...

Drawing N-width lines?

Given a series of points, how could I calculate the vector for that line 5 pixels away? Ex: Given: \ \ \ How could I find the vector for \ \ \ \ \ \ The ones on the right. I'm trying to figure out how programs like Flash can make thick outlines. Thanks ...

Did I implement this correctly?

I'm trying to implement line thickness as denoted here: start = line start = vector(x1, y1) end = line end = vector(x2, y2) dir = line direction = end - start = vector(x2-x1, y2-y1) ndir = normalized direction = dir*1.0/length(dir) perp = perpendicular to direction = vector(dir.x, -dir.y) nperp = normalized perpendicular = perp*1.0/leng...

How to draw circle with specific color in XNA?

XNA doesn't have any methods which support circle drawing. Normally when I had to draw circle, always with the same color, I just made image with that circle and then I could display it as a sprite. But now the color of the circle is specified during runtime, any ideas how to deal with that? ...

Drawing shapes with wxWidgets

I want to learn how to draw shapes with wxWidgets. Where do I start? In case there are multiple ways, I prefer ease of use over cross-platform compatibility. I'm a Windows user. ...

Drawing custom graphics on the iPhone: CALayer vs. CGContext

Hi all, I have an application in which I'm doing some custom drawing, a bunch of lines on a gradient background, like so (ignore the text, they're just UILabels): http://prehensile.co.uk/outgoing/Screenshot2010-06-09at12.22.32.png At the moment, that's all done by starting a new CGContext, drawing stuff into it with CGContextDrawLinea...

Draw arrow on line algorithm

Does anyone have an algorithm for drawing an arrow in the middle of a given line. I have searched for google but haven't found any good implementation. P.S. I really don't mind the language, but it would be great if it was Java, since it is the language I am using for this. Thanks in advance. ...

How would you update 100+ variables if something is changed in a different class?

I have a class Grid which produces a graph paper like grid on in the drawing area. I then have 5 other classes for different shapes to draw with; Line, Polygon, Ellipse, Curve, Arc Now, these 5 classes use an instance of Grid because Grid has a resolution and a scale. Inside Grid I have: public function set resolution(x:Number):void { ...

Drawing an indexed image on iPhone

Hi all, The issue is drawing an indexed image on an iPhone (1 byte pr pixel, 256 colors). You can easily convert a raw image to a CGImage if it is 24 or 32 bts per pixel RGB using 'CGBitmapContextCreate' and 'CGBitmapContextCreateImage' but it does not work with indexed images, I have searched in iPhone SDK documentation and the WEB but...

What's the difference between Path and Polygon control? + issues when designing custom drawing user control

I'm starting to design a custom control with rather complex drawing. It will be a kind of chart (a kind of radar chart). It will be composed of a few axises with labels, line-regions (like spider-network) and filled shapes. The main question is what's the difference between using Path control and Polygon control? What's better to use he...

Best way of drawing text to the screen

Hi, I am working on a read-along-book app for the iPad which is very similar to this Toy Story book ([url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toy-story-read-along/id364376920?mt=8]Toy Story Read-Along for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store[/url]). So my question is how would be the best way to draw the text to the screen an...