How can I manipulate shapes in Adobe Flex? - apache-flex

I'm working on an application where I'm drawing some rectangles on the screen, and then will need to manipulate the shapes (change their size, location). I tried to do something with .drawRect and clearing the shape each time I was manipulating it, but the RAM usage was spiking and then falling (presumeably because i keep reinitializing a new component and then removing it, and garbage collection was cleaning it out). This seems like its probably not the most efficient way to do it.
Is there a way for me to just create a shape once, and then move it around on a canvas (and change its width and height without all this RAM usage?

If all you're doing is changing it's offsets, and adjusting it's width and height without needing to fundamentally change the structure of the shape (such as rounding the corners of a rectangle of some such) you should be able to just maintain a reference to the Shape and adjust it's x, y, scaleX, scaleY properties to effect the changes.

You can try Degrafa to draw the rectangle.
To move the rectangle:
Changing the x and y or height and width property of the shape
Using the Flex Move Effect

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How to ensure even pixel size when painting scaled QImage?

I have a 4 channel png image with 8x8 Pixels that is loaded by a QImage. The QImage is then scaled by a factor of 200, so the image will have a new resolution of 1600x1600, each original pixel having a size of 200x200. But when this image is added to a QLabel through the means of a QPixmap and shown on screen, the drawn pixels will have slightly different sizes.
I've taken screenshots with Gimp and looked at the painted image more closely. It seems that every other pixel is slightly bigger than it should be, 201 instead of 200 pixels wide for example. The very last pixel in a row will then be smaller to compensate, so that the entire image has the correct size in the end.
This does not happen for all scaling factors, 100 is fine for example and so are factors that are a power of 2, such as 256.
My original approach was using a QGraphicsView and a QGraphicsPixmapItem in which case I scaled the GraphicsItem instead of the image. The effect was the same.
What effect am I seeing here? And what, if anything, can be done about it?
The code to reproduce this issue is very straightforward
int scale = 200;
image = QImage("some image file");
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Turns out the easiest solution to my problem is to use QOpenGLWidget in the QGraphicsView:
setViewport(new QOpenGLWidget);
This single line in the constructor will result in much higher precision when scaling an image with the caveat of adding OpenGL as a dependency.
Another gotcha with this approach is that calling setViewport invalidates many of the settings done on a QGraphicsView. So if the view is set up in a UI file, as in my case, make sure to call other setters after calling setViewport.
I could not find a better solution that would work without OpenGL, short of writing my own rasterizer of course.

Scaling <use>d external SVGs with correct aspect ratio

I want to use an (external) SVG icon and want to be able to style the fill color using CSS (as far as I can see, the best way to do this is creating a <svg><use xlink:href="…" /></svg> structure at every place where I want to use it). Simultaneously I want it to be scalable with correct aspect ratio, so it can be used around different text sizes.
But scaling with height:1.5em;width:auto AFAICS only works when the SVG has a viewBox. Is there a way to obtain that viewBox or do the scaling correctly without it?
If your SVG editor doesn't add a viewBox, there is no easy way to get it - other than working out the dimensions yourself and adding it manually.
Use your mouse coordinates readout in your editor, or
Use javascript and call getBBox() on an appropriate element, or
Use trial and error. Fiddle with the x, y, width, and height iteratively until you narrow in on the dimensions.

Collision with fixed pixel-size items on QGraphicsView

I'm using Qt's GraphicsView/GraphicsScene framework, and I have to draw some line items.
To be sure these items are always visible (independant of the zoom level) I use a cosmetic pen, with a size of 3 (for example) so I always get lines of 3 pixels width drawn on screen.
But these items doesn't receive mouse events (such as hoverEnterEvent/hoverLeaveEvent) when I'm zooming out a lot.
I've digged in the code, and it appears that all collisions tests are done with the return value of the shape() function.
So I've tried to re-implement "shape()" and also "contains()" and "collidesWithPath()" methods, but I still have problems to detect collisions (because when zoom is changed, I need to re-update the shape for example).
Is there any tricks to do that ?
In an efficient way ? (without re-updating the item's shape at every zoom change)
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Raphael JS resize Canvas

I'm programming a debate-graph with Raphael JS. Users can add nodes to the graph. Eventually the graph gets really big and the canvas is still the same size. the canvas (in raphael js: paper) is inside another div with "overflow: scroll;", so lets ignore screen real estate
Is there a way that I resize the canvas without reloading the page (to assign new X/Y values)?
Alternatively, can I create a second bigger canvas in parallel and copying all the elements over? is there a way?
If I understand your question, just call setSize() to expand the size of the canvas to the size needed as you need it. I've used this in a div with overflow:scroll to get the effect you describe.
In my case, I didn't want to resize, I wanted to zoom.
In other words, show the user the growing graph inside a constant-sized div.
So I needed: setViewBox()

Programmatic skins in Flex

I am having 2 problems creating programmatic skin for Canvas.
First problem:
I would like to have background with rounded corners and I am using GraphicsUtil.drawRoundRectComplex in order to have round corners for only the upper two corners. The problem is that drawRoundRectComplex takes for each corner one single parameter - the corner radius. However my scaleX and scaleY factors are different and in fact the corners are not properly rounded because I either can set the radius using scaleX or scaleY.
Graphics.drawRoundRect is better because it takes two parameters for the corners - elipse width and height and then you could apply both scale factors but it doesn't allow me to specify different radius for different corners.
I am looking for an idea how to use GraphicsUtil.drawRoundRectComplex when scaleX and scaleY are different.
Second problem:
Even though I set my programmatic skin through style - <> the skin's updateDisplayList gets executed only once and after that somehow "backgroundImage" style gets "undefined" and my programmatic skin is not associated anymore to the Canvas instance. As a workaround I am setting on each resize event "backgroundImage" style again but this is ugly.
What could cause such "silent" resetting of the "backgroundImage" style to undefined?
Thanks!
isnt the backgroundImage supported by the RectangularBorder Class?
Rectabgular Border at Adobe AS3 Reference

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