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NAME

       imencdec -    encoding/decoding    ASImage    data    from/to   usable   data   structures
       libAfterImage/imencdec.h

NAMEimencdec

       defines main structures and function for image storing, extraction and conversion  to/from
       usable formats.

DESCRIPTION

       this  header  defines  structures  and  functions  to  be used by outside applications for
       reading and writing into ASImages. ASImage pixel data maybe  stored  in  sevral  different
       formats, and should not be accessed directly, but only through encoder/decoder facility.

SEE ALSO

       Structures :
                ASImageBevel
                ASImageDecoder
                ASImageOutput

       Functions :
         Encoding :
                asimage_add_line(),    asimage_add_line_mono(),
                asimage_print_line(), get_asimage_chanmask(),
                move_asimage_channel(), copy_asimage_channel(),
                copy_asimage_lines()

         Decoding
                start_image_decoding(), stop_image_decoding(),
                asimage_decode_line (), set_decoder_shift(),
                set_decoder_back_color()

         Output :
                start_image_output(), set_image_output_back_color(),
                toggle_image_output_direction(), stop_image_output()

       Other libAfterImage modules :
                ascmap.h asfont.h asimage.h asvisual.h blender.h export.h
                import.h transform.h ximage.h

AUTHOR

       Sasha Vasko <sasha at aftercode dot net>
       libAfterImage/ASImageBevel

NAMEASImageBevel

       describes bevel to be drawn around the image.

DESCRIPTION

       Bevel  is used to create 3D effect while drawing buttons, or any other image that needs to
       be framed. Bevel is drawn using 2 primary colors: one for top and left sides -  hi  color,
       and  another  for  bottom  and right sides - low color. There are additionally 3 auxiliary
       colors: hihi is used for the edge of top-left  corner,  hilo  is  used  for  the  edge  of
       top-right  and  bottom-left corners, and lolo is used for the edge of bottom-right corner.
       Colors  are  specified  as  ARGB  and  contain  alpha   component,   thus   allowing   for
       semitransparent bevels.

       Bevel consists of outline and inline. Outline is drawn outside of the image boundaries and
       its size adds to image size as the result. Alpha component of  the  outline  is  constant.
       Inline  is  drawn on top of the image and its alpha component is fading towards the center
       of the image, thus creating illusion of smooth disappearing edge.

SOURCE

           typedef struct ASImageBevel { #define BEVEL_SOLID_INLINE  (0x01<<0)
               ASFlagType type ;                /* reserved for future use */

               /* primary bevel colors */
               ARGB32  hi_color ;      /* top and left side color */
               ARGB32  lo_color ;      /* bottom and right side color */

               /* these will be placed in the corners */
               ARGB32  hihi_color ;    /* color of the top-left corner */
               ARGB32  hilo_color ;    /* color of the top-right and
                                        * bottom-left corners */
               ARGB32  lolo_color ;    /* color of the bottom-right corner */

               /* outlines define size of the line drawn around the image */
               unsigned short left_outline ;
               unsigned short top_outline ;
               unsigned short right_outline ;
               unsigned short bottom_outline ;
               /* inlines define size of the semitransparent line drawn
                * inside the image */
               unsigned short left_inline ;
               unsigned short top_inline ;
               unsigned short right_inline ;
               unsigned short bottom_inline ; }ASImageBevel;

       libAfterImage/ASImageDecoder

NAMEASImageDecoder

       describes the status of reading any particular ASImage, as well as providing detail on how
       it should be done.

DESCRIPTION

       ASImageDecoder  works  as  an  abstraction  layer  and  as  the  way  to  automate several
       operations. Most of the transformations in libAfterImage are performed  as  operations  on
       ASScanline  data  structure,  that  holds  all  or  some  of  the channels of single image
       scanline. In order to automate data extraction from ASImage into ASScanline ASImageDecoder
       has been designed.

       It  has  following  features  : 1) All missing scanlines, or channels of scanlines will be
       filled with supplied back_color 2) It is possible to leave out some channels of the image,
       extracting  only  subset  of  channels.  It is done by setting only needed flags in filter
       member.  3) It is possible to extract sub-image of  the  image  by  setting  offset_x  and
       offset_y  to  top-left  corner  of  sub-image,  out_width  - to width of the sub-image and
       calling decode_image_scanline method as many times as height of the sub-image.  4)  It  is
       possible  to  apply  bevel  to  extracted  sub-image,  by setting bevel member to specific
       ASImageBevel structure.

       Extracted Scanlines will be stored in buffer and it will be updated  after  each  call  to
       decode_image_scanline().

SOURCE

           /*  low  level  driver  (what  data  to use - native, XImage or ARGB): */ typedef void
           (*decode_asscanline_func)( struct ASImageDecoder *imdec,
                                                   unsigned int skip, int  y  );  /*  high  level
           driver (bevel or not bevel): */ typedef void (*decode_image_scanline_func)
                           (struct ASImageDecoder *imdec);

           typedef struct ASImageDecoder {
               struct ASVisual *asv;
               struct ASImage  *im ;
               ASFlagType      filter;      /* flags that mask set of
                                             * channels to be extracted
                                             * from the image */

               ARGB32          back_color;  /* we fill missing scanlines
                                             * with this default - black*/
               unsigned int    offset_x,    /* left margin on source image
                                             * before which we skip everything */
                               out_width;   /* actual length of the output
                                             * scanline */
               unsigned int    offset_y,    /* top margin */
                               out_height;
               ASImageBevel    *bevel;      /* bevel to wrap everything
                                             * around with */

               /* offsets of the drawn bevel baseline on resulting image : */
               int            bevel_left, bevel_top,
                               bevel_right, bevel_bottom ;

               /* scanline buffer containing current scanline */
               struct ASScanline buffer; /* matches the out_width */

               /* internal data : */
               unsigned short    bevel_h_addon, bevel_v_addon ;
               int               next_line ;

               struct ASScanline   *xim_buffer; /* matches the size of the
                                          * original XImage */

               decode_asscanline_func     decode_asscanline ;
               decode_image_scanline_func decode_image_scanline ; }ASImageDecoder;

       libAfterImage/asimage/quality

FUNCTION

       Defines level of output quality/speed ratio

NAMEASIMAGE_QUALITY_POOR

       there  will be no dithering and interpolation used while transforming ASIMAGE_QUALITY_FAST
       there will be no dithering and used while transforming but  interpolation  will  be  used.
       ASIMAGE_QUALITY_GOOD  simplified  dithering  is  performed  in  addition to interpolation.
       ASIMAGE_QUALITY_TOP full dithering and  interpolation.   ASIMAGE_QUALITY_DEFAULT  requests
       current     default     setting     -     typically    same    as    ASIMAGE_QUALITY_GOOD.
       MAX_GRADIENT_DITHER_LINES defines number of lines to use for  dithering,  while  rendering
       gradients, in order to create smooth effect. Higher number will slow things down, but will
       create better gradients.

SOURCE

           #define  ASIMAGE_QUALITY_POOR      0   #define   ASIMAGE_QUALITY_FAST      1   #define
           ASIMAGE_QUALITY_GOOD        2     #define     ASIMAGE_QUALITY_TOP         3    #define
           ASIMAGE_QUALITY_DEFAULT -1

           #define MAX_GRADIENT_DITHER_LINES   ASIMAGE_QUALITY_TOP+1

       libAfterImage/asimage/ASImageOutput

NAMEASImageOutput

       describes the output state of the transformation result. It is used to transparently write
       results into ASImage or XImage with different levels of quality.

DESCRIPTION

       libAfterImage  allows  for transformation result to be stored in both ASImage ( useful for
       long term storage and subsequent processing ) and XImage (  useful  for  transfer  of  the
       result  onto  the  X  Server).   At  the same time there are 4 different quality levels of
       output implemented. They differ in the way special  technics,  like  error  diffusion  and
       interpolation  are  applyed,  and allow for fine grained selection of quality/speed ratio.
       ASIMAGE_QUALITY_GOOD  should  be  good  enough  for  most  applications.   The   following
       additional  output  features  are  implemented  :  1) Filling of the missing channels with
       supplied values.  2) Error diffusion to improve quality while converting from internal
             24.8 format to 8 bit format.  3) Tiling of the output.  If  tiling_step  is  greater
       then 0, then each
             scanlines will be copied into lines found tiling_step one from
             another, up to the edge of the image.  4) Reverse order of output. Output image will
       be mirrored along y
             axis if bottom_to_top is set to True.

NOTES

       The output_image_scanline method  should  be  called  for  each  scanline  to  be  stored.
       Convenience  functions  listed  below  should  be used to safely alter state of the output
       instead of direct manipulation of the data members. (makes you pity you don't write in C++
       doesn't it ?)

       Also  There  is a trick in the way how output_image_scanline handles empty scanlines while
       writing ASImage. If back_color of empty scanline matches  back_color  of  ASImageOutput  -
       then particular line is erased!  If back_colors are same - then particular line of ASImage
       gets filled with the back_color of ASScanline. First approach  is  useful  when  resulting
       image will be used in subsequent call to merge_layers - in such case knowing back_color of
       image is good enough and we don't need to store lines with the same color. In  case  where
       ASImage  will  be converted into Pixmap/XImage - second approach is preferable, since that
       conversion does not take into consideration image's back color - we may want to change  it
       in the future.

SEE ALSO

       start_image_output()     set_image_output_back_color()     toggle_image_output_direction()
       stop_image_output()

SOURCE

           typedef void (*encode_image_scanline_func)( struct ASImageOutput *imout,
                                                       struct  ASScanline  *to_store  );  typedef
           void (*output_image_scanline_func)( struct ASImageOutput *,
                                                       struct ASScanline *, int );

           typedef struct ASImageOutput {
               struct ASVisual         *asv;
               struct ASImage          *im ;
               ASAltImFormats   out_format ;
               CARD32           chan_fill[4];
               int              buffer_shift;  /* -1 means - buffer is empty,
                                                * 0 - no shift,
                                                * 8 - use 8 bit precision */
               int              next_line ;    /* next scanline to be written */
               unsigned int     tiling_step;   /* each line written will be
                                                * repeated with this step until
                                                * we exceed image size */
               unsigned int     tiling_range;  /* Limits region in which we need
                                                * to tile. If set to 0 then image
                                                * height is used */
               int              bottom_to_top; /* -1 if we should output in
                                                * bottom to top order,
                                                * +1 otherwise*/

               int              quality ;      /* see above */

               output_image_scanline_func
                   output_image_scanline ;  /* high level interface - division,
                                             * error diffusion as well
                                             * as encoding */
               encode_image_scanline_func
                   encode_image_scanline ;  /* low level interface -
                                             * encoding only */

               /* internal data members : */
               struct ASScanline        buffer[2], *used, *available; }ASImageOutput;

       libAfterImage/asimage/start_image_decoding()

NAMEstart_image_decoding()

       - allocates and initializes decoder structure.

SYNOPSIS

       ASImageDecoder *start_image_decoding( ASVisual *asv,ASImage *im,
                                             ASFlagType filter,
                                             int offset_x, int offset_y,
                                             unsigned int out_width,
                                             unsigned int out_height,
                                             ASImageBevel *bevel );

INPUTS

       asv    -  pointer to valid ASVisual structure ( needed mostly to see if we are in BGR mode
              or not );

       im     - ASImage we are going to decode;

       filter - bitmask where set bits mark channels that has to be decoded.

       offset_x
              - left margin inside im, from which we should start reading pixel data, effectively
              clipping source image.

       offset_y
              -  top  margin inside im, from which we should start reading scanlines, effectively
              clipping source image. Note that when edge of  the  image  is  reached,  subsequent
              requests for scanlines will wrap around to the top of the image, and not offset_y.

       out_width-
              width  of  the scanline needed. If it is larger then source image - then image data
              will be tiled in it. If it is smaller - then image data will be clipped.

       out_height
              - height of the output drawable. -1 means that same as image height. if  out_height
              is greater then image height, then image will be tiled.

       bevel  -  NULL  or  pointer  to  valid  ASImageBevel  structure  if decoded data should be
              overlayed with bevel at the time of decoding.

RETURN VALUE

       start_image_decoding() returns pointer to  newly  allocated  ASImageDecoder  structure  on
       success, NULL on failure.

DESCRIPTION

       Normal  process of reading image data from ASImage consists of 3 steps : 1) start decoding
       by calling start_image_decoding.   2)  call  decode_image_scanline()  method  of  returned
       structure,  for  each scanline up to desired height of the target image. Decoded data will
       be returned in buffer member of the ASImageDecoder  structure.   3)  finish  decoding  and
       deallocated all the used memory by calling stop_image_decoding()
       libAfterImage/asimage/set_decoder_bevel_geom()

NAMEset_decoder_bevel_geom()

       - changes default placement of the bevel on decoded image.

SYNOPSIS

       void set_decoder_bevel_geom( ASImageDecoder *imdec, int x, int y,
                                    unsigned int width, unsigned int height );

INPUTS

       imdec  - pointer to pointer to structure, previously created by start_image_decoding.

       x,y    -  left  top  position  of  the inner border of the Bevel outline as related to the
              origin of subimage being decoded.

       width,

       height - widtha and height of the inner border of the bevel outline.

DESCRIPTION

       For example if you only need to render small part of the button, that  is  being  rendered
       from  transparency  image.   NOTE  This  call  modifies bevel_h_addon and bevel_v_addon of
       ASImageDecoder structure.
       libAfterImage/asimage/set_decoder_shift()

NAMEset_decoder_shift()

       - changes the shift value of decoder - 8 or 0.

SYNOPSIS

       void set_decoder_shift( ASImageDecoder *imdec, int shift );

INPUTS

       imdec  - pointer to pointer to structure, previously created by start_image_decoding.

       shift  - new value to be used as the shift while decoding image. valid values are 8 and 0.

DESCRIPTION

       This function should be used instead of directly  modifyeing  value  of  shift  memebr  of
       ASImageDecoder structure.
       libAfterImage/asimage/set_decoder_back_color()

NAMEset_decoder_back_color()

       - changes the back color to be used while decoding the image.

SYNOPSIS

       void set_decoder_back_color( ASImageDecoder *imdec, ARGB32 back_color );

INPUTS

       imdec  - pointer to pointer to structure, previously created by start_image_decoding.

       back_color
              -  ARGB32  color  value  to be used as the background color to fill empty spaces in
              decoded ASImage.

DESCRIPTION

       This function should be used instead of directly modifyeing value of back_color memebr  of
       ASImageDecoder structure.
       libAfterImage/asimage/stop_image_decoding()

NAMEstop_image_decoding()

       - finishes decoding, frees all allocated memory.

SYNOPSIS

       void stop_image_decoding( ASImageDecoder **pimdec );

INPUTS

       pimdec - pointer to pointer to structure, previously created by start_image_decoding.

RETURN VALUE

       pimdec  - pointer to ASImageDecoder will be reset to NULL.

SEE ALSO

       start_image_decoding()
       libAfterImage/asimage/start_image_output()

NAMEstart_image_output()

       - initializes output structure

SYNOPSIS

       ASImageOutput *start_image_output ( struct ASVisual *asv,
                                           ASImage *im,
                                           ASAltImFormats format,
                                           int shift, int quality );

INPUTS

       asv    - pointer to valid ASVisual structure

       im     - destination ASImage

       format - indicates that output should be written into alternative format, such as supplied
              XImage, ARGB32 array etc.

       shift  - precision of scanline data. Supported values are 0 - no precision, and 8  -  24.8
              precision.  Value  of  that  argument  defines by how much scanline data is shifted
              rightwards.

       quality
              - what algorithms should be used while writing data out, i.e. full error diffusion,
              fast error diffusion, no error diffusion.

DESCRIPTION

       start_image_output() creates and initializes new ASImageOutput structure based on supplied
       parameters. Created structure can be subsequently used to write scanlines into destination
       image.   It  is  effectively  hiding differences of XImage and ASImage and other available
       output formats.  outpt_image_scanline() method of the structure can be used to  write  out
       single scanline. Each written scanlines moves internal pointer to the next image line, and
       possibly writes several scanlines at once if tiling_step member is not 0.
       libAfterImage/asimage/set_image_output_back_color()

NAMEset_image_output_back_color()

       - changes background color of output

SYNOPSIS

       void set_image_output_back_color ( ASImageOutput *imout,
                                          ARGB32 back_color );

INPUTS

       imout  - ASImageOutput structure, previously created with start_image_output();

       back_color
              - new background color value in ARGB format. This color will be used to fill  empty
              parts of outgoing scanlines.  libAfterImage/asimage/toggle_image_output_direction()

NAMEtoggle_image_output_direction()

       - reverses vertical direction of output

SYNOPSIS

       void toggle_image_output_direction( ASImageOutput *imout );

INPUTS

       imout  - ASImageOutput structure, previously created with start_image_output();

DESCRIPTION

       reverses  vertical  direction output. If previously scanlines has been written from top to
       bottom, for example, after this function is  called  they  will  be  written  in  opposite
       direction.  Current  line  does not change, unless it points to the very first or the very
       last image line. In this last case it will be moved to the opposing end of the image.
       libAfterImage/asimage/stop_image_output()

NAMEstop_image_output()

       - finishes output, frees all the allocated memory.

SYNOPSIS

       void stop_image_output( ASImageOutput **pimout );

INPUTS

       pimout - pointer to pointer to ASImageOutput structure, previously created  with  call  to
              start_image_output().

RETURN VALUE

       pimout      - pointer to ASImageOutput will be reset to NULL.

DESCRIPTION

       Completes  image  output  process.  Flushes all the internal buffers.  Deallocates all the
       allocated memory. Resets pointer to NULL to avoid dereferencing invalid pointers.