[Haskell-cafe] ANN: diagrams 0.4

[David Barbour]

Thanks.

Diagrams package seems it could be promising for a declarative UI model -
i.e. integration with functional reactive programming and similar models -
so long as I'm willing to sacrifice `native` look and feel, which doesn't
seem like a big problem.

A couple more questions:
1) Am I right in assuming that Diagrams does very little `occlusion` of its
own - i.e. when rendering a soda-straw view of a complex diagram, or masking
large areas with a rectangle or sphere? There won't be any competition or
redundancy with an external index and backend (e.g. Cairo-GL layer)
occlusion?
2) Is there support for Cairo-like linear and radial gradients?

Also, it seems that for Cairo rendering, we cannot currently supply our own
Cairo context.


> renderDia Cairo (CairoOptions "foo.png" (PNG (100,100))) myDiagram


This section of your manual is incomplete, I admit, but from browsing the
code it seems you provide a simplified interface that fully encapsulates the
Cairo rendering. Is there any way to render a diagram within the Cairo
stack? or leverage Cairo's own experimental backends (like OpenGL)?

Regards,

Dave


On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Brent Yorgey <byorgey at seas.upenn.edu>wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:06:19PM -0700, David Barbour wrote:
> > Is there any way to `query` a diagram, i.e. associate data with each
> pixel
> > for mouse clicks?
>
> Yes.  Every diagram has an associated 'query function', which
> associates a monoidal value to every point.  By default it just
> returns True/False indicating whether the given point is in the
> interior of any shape, but you can use any monoid you like.  I believe
> John Lato has been using this in conjunction with the support for
> rendering directly to a gtk widget to develop some sort of interactive
> graphical application (I don't know many details).
>
> For more info see
>
>
> http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/manual/diagrams-manual.html#using-queries
>
> -Brent
>
>
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