Documentation: SkCanvas API

site/user/api/skcanvas.md

+SkCanvas
+========
+
+*The drawing context*
+
+<!-- Updated Mar 4, 2011 -->
+
+Preview
+-------
+
+Here is an example of a set of drawing commands to draw a filled
+heptagram.  This function can be cut and pasted into
+[fiddle.skia.org](https://fiddle.skia.org/).
+
+<!--?prettify lang=cc?-->
+
+    void draw(SkCanvas* canvas) {
+        const SkScalar scale = 256.0f;
+        const SkScalar R = 0.45f * scale;
+        const SkScalar TAU = 6.2831853f;
+        SkPath path;
+        for (int i = 0; i < 7; ++i) {
+            SkScalar theta = 3 * i * TAU / 7;
+            if (i == 0) {
+                path.moveTo(R * cos(theta), R * sin(theta));
+            } else {
+                path.lineTo(R * cos(theta), R * sin(theta));
+            }
+        }
+        path.close();
+        SkPaint p;
+        p.setAntiAlias(true);
+        canvas->clear(SK_ColorWHITE);
+        canvas->translate(0.5f * scale, 0.5f * scale);
+        canvas->drawPath(path, p);
+    }
+
+Details
+-------
+
+SkCanvas is the drawing context for Skia. It knows where to direct the
+drawing (i.e. where the screen of offscreen pixels are), and maintains
+a stack of matrices and clips. Note however, that unlike similar
+contexts in other APIs like postscript, cairo, or awt, Skia does not
+store any other drawing attributes in the context (e.g. color, pen
+size). Rather, these are specified explicitly in each draw call, via a
+SkPaint.
+
+<!--?prettify lang=cc?-->
+
+    void draw(SkCanvas* canvas) {
+        canvas->save();
+        canvas->rotate(SkIntToScalar(45));
+        SkRect rect = SkRect::MakeXYWH(150, -50, 100, 100);
+        SkPaint paint;
+        canvas->drawRect(rect, paint);
+        canvas->restore();
+    }
+
+The code above will draw a rectangle rotated by 45 degrees. Exactly
+what color and style the rect will be drawn in is described by the
+paint, not the canvas.
+
+Check out more detailed info on [creating a SkCanvas object](canvas).
+
+To begin with, we might want to erase the entire canvas. We can do
+this by drawing an enormous rectangle, but there are easier ways to do
+it.
+
+<!--?prettify lang=cc?-->
+
+    void draw(SkCanvas* canvas) {
+        SkPaint paint;
+        paint.setColor(SK_ColorWHITE);
+        canvas->drawPaint(paint);
+    }
+
+This fills the entire canvas (though respecting the current clip of
+course) with whatever color or shader (and xfermode) is specified by
+the paint. If there is a shader in the paint, then it will respect the
+current matrix on the canvas as well (see SkShader). If you just want
+to draw a color (with an optional xfermode), you can just call
+drawColor(), and save yourself having to allocate a paint.
+
+<!--?prettify lang=cc?-->
+
+    void draw(SkCanvas* canvas) {
+        canvas->drawColor(SK_ColorWHITE);
+    }
+
+All of the other draw APIs are similar, each one ending with a paint
+parameter.
+
+<!--?prettify lang=cc?-->
+
+    void draw(SkCanvas* canvas) {
+        SkPaint paint;
+        paint.setStyle(SkPaint::kStroke_Style);
+        paint.setStrokeWidth(2);
+
+        SkRect rect = SkRect::MakeXYWH(50, 50, 40, 60);
+        canvas->drawRect(rect, paint);
+
+        SkRRect oval;
+        oval.setOval(rect);
+        oval.offset(40, 60);
+        canvas->drawRRect(oval, paint);
+
+        canvas->drawCircle(180, 50, 25, paint);
+
+        rect.offset(80, 0);
+        canvas->drawRoundRect(rect, 10, 10, paint);
+
+        SkPath path;
+        path.cubicTo(768, 0, -512, 256, 256, 256);
+        canvas->drawPath(path, paint);
+
+        canvas->drawBitmap(source, 128, 128, &paint);
+
+        SkRect rect2 = SkRect::MakeXYWH(0, 0, 40, 60);
+        canvas->drawBitmapRect(source, rect2);
+
+        SkPaint paint2;
+        const char text[] = "Hello, Skia!";
+        canvas->drawText(text, strlen(text), 50, 25, paint2);
+    }
+
+In some of the calls, we pass a pointer, rather than a reference, to
+the paint. In those instances, the paint parameter may be null. In all
+other cases the paint parameter is required.
+
+Next: [SkPaint](/user/api/skpaint)