drawing_mode(3) Allegro manual drawing_mode(3)NAMEdrawing_mode - Sets the graphics drawing mode. Allegro game programming
library.
SYNOPSIS
#include <allegro.h>
void drawing_mode(int mode, BITMAP *pattern, int x_anchor, int
y_anchor);
DESCRIPTION
Sets the graphics drawing mode. This only affects the geometric rou‐
tines like putpixel, lines, rectangles, circles, polygons, floodfill,
etc, not the text output, blitting, or sprite drawing functions. The
mode should be one of the following constants:
DRAW_MODE_SOLID - the default, solid color
drawing
DRAW_MODE_XOR - exclusive-or drawing
DRAW_MODE_COPY_PATTERN - multicolored pattern fill
DRAW_MODE_SOLID_PATTERN - single color pattern fill
DRAW_MODE_MASKED_PATTERN - masked pattern fill
DRAW_MODE_TRANS - translucent color blending
In DRAW_MODE_SOLID, pixels of the bitmap being drawn onto are simply
replaced by those produced by the drawing function.
In DRAW_MODE_XOR, pixels are written to the bitmap with an exclusive-or
operation rather than a simple copy, so drawing the same shape twice
will erase it. Because it involves reading as well as writing the bit‐
map memory, xor drawing is a lot slower than the normal replace mode.
With the patterned modes, you provide a pattern bitmap which is tiled
across the surface of the shape. Allegro stores a pointer to this bit‐
map rather than copying it, so you must not destroy the bitmap while it
is still selected as the pattern. The width and height of the pattern
must be powers of two, but they can be different, eg. a 64x16 pattern
is fine, but a 17x3 one is not. The pattern is tiled in a grid starting
at point (x_anchor, y_anchor). Normally you should just pass zero for
these values, which lets you draw several adjacent shapes and have the
patterns meet up exactly along the shared edges. Zero alignment may
look peculiar if you are moving a patterned shape around the screen,
however, because the shape will move but the pattern alignment will
not, so in some situations you may wish to alter the anchor position.
When you select DRAW_MODE_COPY_PATTERN, pixels are simply copied from
the pattern bitmap onto the destination bitmap. This allows the use of
multicolored patterns, and means that the color you pass to the drawing
routine is ignored. This is the fastest of the patterned modes.
In DRAW_MODE_SOLID_PATTERN, each pixel in the pattern bitmap is com‐
pared with the mask color, which is zero in 256-color modes or bright
pink for truecolor data (maximum red and blue, zero green). If the pat‐
tern pixel is solid, a pixel of the color you passed to the drawing
routine is written to the destination bitmap, otherwise a zero is writ‐
ten. The pattern is thus treated as a monochrome bitmask, which lets
you use the same pattern to draw different shapes in different colors,
but prevents the use of multicolored patterns.
DRAW_MODE_MASKED_PATTERN is almost the same as DRAW_MODE_SOLID_PATTERN,
but the masked pixels are skipped rather than being written as zeros,
so the background shows through the gaps.
In DRAW_MODE_TRANS, the global color_map table or truecolor blender
functions are used to overlay pixels on top of the existing image. This
must only be used after you have set up the color mapping table (for
256 color modes) or blender functions (for truecolor modes). Because it
involves reading as well as writing the bitmap memory, translucent
drawing is very slow if you draw directly to video RAM, so wherever
possible you should use a memory bitmap instead.
SEE ALSOxor_mode(3), solid_mode(3), color_map(3), set_trans_blender(3), exal‐
pha(3), excolmap(3), exjoy(3), expat(3), extrans(3)Allegro version 4.4.2 drawing_mode(3)
