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zerob
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 Posted - Mar 05 2015 : 04:04:44
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Dear xequte
It seems that LayersCreateFromText has some bugs.
If you enable smoothing and shadow, the text doesn't look that good anymore (white edges appear) (caused by simple settranspartentcolor instead of proper alphachannels).
ImageEnView1.LayersCreateFromText('Project1.exe', //this is just a random text
'Tahoma', 72, clRed, [fsBold],
True,3,2,0,True);
I also found another strange bug.
Every time i create a layer by LayersCreateFromText, the new layer gets smaller, the next one even smaller and so on... till one if the new layers is so small that it isn't shown anymore.
The first one is:
601x94
The second one is:
594x72
The third one is:
587x50
The fourth one is:
580x28
So it seems they shrink 7 pixels in width and 22 pixels in height everytime a new one is created
ImageEnView1.MouseInteract := [miMoveLayers, miResizeLayers];
ImageEnView1.LayersCreateFromText('Project1.exe',
'Tahoma', 72, clRed, [fsBold],
False,3,2,0,False);
ImageEnView1.LayersCreateFromText('Project1.exe',
'Tahoma', 72, clRed, [fsBold],
False,3,2,0,False);
ImageEnView1.LayersCreateFromText('Project1.exe',
'Tahoma', 72, clRed, [fsBold],
False,3,2,0,False);
ImageEnView1.LayersCreateFromText('Project1.exe',
'Tahoma', 72, clRed, [fsBold],
False,3,2,0,False);
Also it would be nice if things from TImageEnProc could be used to any layer or iebitmap instead of using the last added layer.
Regards
Zerob
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xequte
38176 Posts |
Posted - Mar 05 2015 : 20:58:06
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Hi
The sizing issue is fixed in the next update (ready next week).
We will investigate the issue of TextOut leaving jaggies. What helper function did you use in your second example?
Nigel
Xequte Software
www.xequte.com
nigel@xequte.com
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xequte
38176 Posts |
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zerob
111 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2015 : 00:51:12
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Hi, i did create a bugfixed function which does a black/white of the text and copies it into the alpha channel and then fills the foreground with the textcolor:
This uses an alphachannel instead of the settransparentcolor (white) that the original function uses.
function ImageEnViewEx.LayersCreateFromText(const sText : string;
const sFontName : string;
iFontSize : Integer;
cFontColor : TColor;
Style : TFontStyles;
bAddShadow: boolean = False;
iBlurRadius : Integer = 3;
iShadowOffset : Integer = 2;
Angle : Integer = 0;
bAntiAlias : Boolean = true) : integer;
begin
// add a new layer
Result := LayersAdd;
// Fill the new layer with black for empty alpha
Proc.Fill(clBlack);
// Output our text in white for visible alpha
Proc.TextOut(0, 0, sText, sFontName, iFontSize, clWhite, Style, Angle, bAntiAlias);
// Copy the black / white to alpha channel
LayersCopyToAlpha(Result);
// Fill the color with the font color
Proc.Fill(cFontColor);
// Add our shadow
if bAddShadow then
Proc.AddSoftShadow(iBlurRadius, iShadowOffset, iShadowOffset);
// Remove the excess transparency
Proc.CropTransparentBorder;
end;
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xequte
38176 Posts |
Posted - Mar 06 2015 : 23:31:57
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Hi
Yes, good work. That is the best way to handle it. Anyway for the next release we have added alpha compositing to TIECanvas, which will make working with transparency and a canvas much easier.
We have also fixed LayersCreateFromText and Proc.TextOut.
Nigel
Xequte Software
www.xequte.com
nigel@xequte.com
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zerob
111 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2015 : 05:10:39
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| Can you explain this alpha compositing a bit? :-) |
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xequte
38176 Posts |
Posted - Mar 08 2015 : 18:21:37
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A block of code is worth a thousand words:
// create a layer on a TImageEnView with shadow text
var
CompositingCanvas: TIECanvas;
begin
ImageEnView1.LayersAdd;
// Area that is larger than what we need
ImageEnView1.IEBitmap.Allocate(500, 500);
ImageEnView1.AlphaChannel.Fill(0);
// Rect(0,0,500,100) is just the estimated required area
CompositingCanvas := ImageEnView1.IEBitmap.CreateROICanvas(Rect(0, 0, 500, 100), true, true, true);
CompositingCanvas.Brush.Color := clRed;
CompositingCanvas.Font.Name := 'Tahoma';
CompositingCanvas.Font.Height := 72;
CompositingCanvas.DrawText('Hello World!', Rect(0, 0, 500, 300)); // use DrawText instead of TextOut
// This will also copy the content back to the IEBitmap
CompositingCanvas.Free();
// Add a Soft Shadow
ImageEnView1.Proc.AddSoftShadow(5, 5, 1);
// Remove excess transparent area
ImageEnView1.Proc.CropTransparentBorder;
ImageEnView1.Update();
end;
Nigel
Xequte Software
www.xequte.com
nigel@xequte.com
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