GDK Base Driver

This driver represents a basic driver for all system-dependent drivers implemented in the X-Windows system. The implementation uses the GDK and Pango API functions. This driver was designed for the GTK+ version 2, and can be compiled and used in all systems GDK is supported. For GTK+ version 3 the Cairo driver is used instead.

This is included in the main library in Linux and BSD. To use it in other Unices and in Win32 you must link with the cdgdk library instead of the cd main library.

Behavior of Functions

Control 

• Play: does nothing, returns CD_ERROR.

Coordinate System and Clipping

• UpdateYAxis: the orientation of axis Y is the opposite to its orientation in the CD library.

Primitives

• Begin: CD_BEZIER and CD_PATH are simulated with lines.

Attributes

• LineWidth: if width is 1, the driver will use 0 for a better performance.
• LineStyle: thick lines have style only in the line's direction. For example, you will see small rectangles in a thick dotted line.
• NativeFont: also accepts the X-Windows font string format.
• Font: "Courier" is mapped to "Monospace", "Helvetica" is mapped to "Sans", and "Times" is mapped to "Serif". Underline and Strikeout are supported.

Colors

• Palette: When the number of bits per pixel is smaller than or equal to 8, the driver will use the system palette to solve colors passed as parameters to the canvas. The driver allocates colors as they are requested - if a color cannot be allocated, the closest color is used in the palette. For such, the driver sees all available colors, in the current application and others. If one of the applications is terminated, a color in the palette may become invalid and will only be updated by the driver when it is requested again. For this reason, a call to cdForeground or cdBackground or cdPalette is recommended before drawing.
  When CD_FORCE is used, the driver forces color allocation. This may imply changing colors in other applications when a cursor moves in and out of the canvas. However, if the number of requested colors is smaller than the maximum number of possible colors in the palette, then the first colors in the default system palette will be preserved, minimizing this problem.
  When CD_POLITE is used, all colors allocated by the driver are liberated, and the requested colors are allocated. This is useful for the application to prioritize the colors that will be allocated, causing other colors to be mapped to their closest colors.
  Note that canvases in the same application interfere with one another, but when a canvas is terminated it liberates all allocated colors.

Exclusive Attributes

• "GC":  returns the GDK graphics context (get only). In Lua is returned as an user data.

• "IMGDITHER":  changes how dithering is used in images when bpp<=8. Can be "NORMAL" or "NONE". Default: "NONE".

• "IMGINTERP":  changes how interpolation is used in image scale. Can be "BILINEAR" or "NEAREST". Default: "NEAREST".

• "ROTATE":  allows the usage of 1 angle and 1 coordinate (x, y), that define a global rotation transformation centered in the specified coordinate. Use 1 real and 2 integer values inside a string ("%g %d %d" = angle x y). In this driver will change the current transformation matrix, if removed will reset the current transformation matrix.

• "PANGOVERSION": returns a string with the Pango version number. It is empty if the Pango is not available.

• "UTF8MODE": enables the usage of the UTF-8 encoding for strings. It can have the following values: "1" or "0". Default is "0".