How do I create an in-memory fully transparent SWT image and draw a black line on it with antialias enabled?
I expect the result to include only black color and alpha values ranging from 0 to 255 due to antialias...
I googled and tried everything that I could... is this possible at all?
This is how I did and it works:
Image src = new Image(null, 16, 16);
ImageData imageData = src.getImageData();
imageData.transparentPixel = imageData.getPixel(0, 0);
src.dispose();
Image icon = new Image(null, imageData);
//draw on the icon with gc
I was able to make this work, although it feels a bit hacky:
Display display = Display.getDefault();
int width = 10;
int height = 10;
Image canvas = new Image(display, width, height);
GC gc = new GC(canvas);
gc.setAntialias(SWT.ON);
// This sets the alpha on the entire canvas to transparent
gc.setAlpha(0);
gc.fillRectangle(0, 0, width, height);
// Reset our alpha and draw a line
gc.setAlpha(255);
gc.setForeground(display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_BLACK));
gc.drawLine(0, 0, width, height);
// We're done with the GC, so dispose of it
gc.dispose();
ImageData canvasData = canvas.getImageData();
canvasData.alphaData = new byte[width * height];
// This is the hacky bit that is making assumptions about
// the underlying ImageData. In my case it is 32 bit data
// so every 4th byte in the data array is the alpha for that
// pixel...
for (int idx = 0; idx < (width * height); idx++) {
int coord = (idx * 4) + 3;
canvasData.alphaData[idx] = canvasData.data[coord];
}
// Now that we've set the alphaData, we can create our
// final image
Image finalImage = new Image(canvasData);
// And get rid of the canvas
canvas.dispose();
After this, finalImage
can be drawn into a GC
with drawImage
and the transparent parts will be respected.
I made it by allocating an ImageData
, making it transparent then creating the Image
from the data :
static Image createTransparentImage(Display display, int width, int height) {
// allocate an image data
ImageData imData = new ImageData(width, height, 24, new PaletteData(0xff0000,0x00ff00, 0x0000ff));
imData.setAlpha(0, 0, 0); // just to force alpha array allocation with the right size
Arrays.fill(imData.alphaData, (byte) 0); // set whole image as transparent
// Initialize image from transparent image data
return new Image(display, imData);
}
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