| Copyright | (c) 2013 Diagrams-cairo team (see LICENSE) |
|---|---|
| License | BSD-style (see LICENSE) |
| Maintainer | diagrams-discuss@googlegroups.com |
| Safe Haskell | None |
| Language | Haskell2010 |
Diagrams.Backend.Cairo.CmdLine
Description
Convenient creation of command-line-driven executables for rendering diagrams using the cairo backend.
defaultMaincreates an executable which can render a single diagram at various options.multiMainis likedefaultMainbut allows for a list of diagrams from which the user can choose one to render.animMainis likedefaultMainbut for animations instead of diagrams.gifMaincreates an executable to generate an animated GIF.mainWithis a generic form that does all of the above but with a slightly scarier type. See Diagrams.Backend.CmdLine. This form can also take a function type that has a suitable final result (any of arguments to the above types) andParseablearguments.
If you want to generate diagrams programmatically---i.e. if you want to do anything more complex than what the below functions provide---you have several options.
- Use a function with
mainWith. This may require makingParseableinstances for custom argument types. - Make a new
Mainableinstance. This may require a newtype wrapper on your diagram type to avoid the existing instances. This gives you more control over argument parsing, intervening steps, and diagram creation. - Build option records and pass them along with a diagram to
mainRenderfrom Diagrams.Backend.CmdLine. - A more flexible approach is to use the
renderCairofunction provided in the Diagrams.Backend.Cairo module. - For the most flexibility, you can call the generic
renderDiafunction directly; see Diagrams.Backend.Cairo for more information.
For a tutorial on command-line diagram creation see http://projects.haskell.org/diagrams/doc/cmdline.html.
Synopsis
- mainWith :: Mainable d => d -> IO ()
- defaultMain :: QDiagram Cairo V2 Double Any -> IO ()
- multiMain :: [(String, QDiagram Cairo V2 Double Any)] -> IO ()
- animMain :: Animation Cairo V2 Double -> IO ()
- gifMain :: [(QDiagram Cairo V2 Double Any, GifDelay)] -> IO ()
- data GifOpts = GifOpts {
- _dither :: Bool
- _noLooping :: Bool
- _loopRepeat :: Maybe Int
- gifRender :: (DiagramOpts, GifOpts) -> [(QDiagram Cairo V2 Double Any, GifDelay)] -> IO ()
- data Cairo
- type B = Cairo
General form of main
The mainWith method unifies all of the other forms of main and is now
the recommended way to build a command-line diagrams program. It works as a
direct replacement for defaultMain, multiMain, or animMain as well as
allowing more general arguments. For example, given a function that
produces a diagram when given an Int and a Colour DoublemainWith
will produce a program that looks for additional number and color arguments.
... definitions ... f :: Int -> Colour Double -> Diagram Cairo f i c = ... main = mainWith f
We can run this program as follows:
$ ghc --make MyDiagram # output image.png built by `f 20 red` $ ./MyDiagram -o image.png -w 200 20 red
mainWith :: Mainable d => d -> IO () Source #
Main entry point for command-line diagram creation. This is the method
that users will call from their program main. For instance an expected
user program would take the following form.
import Diagrams.Prelude import Diagrams.Backend.TheBestBackend.CmdLine d :: Diagram B R2 d = ... main = mainWith d
Most backends should be able to use the default implementation. A different implementation should be used to handle more complex interactions with the user.
Supported forms of main
animMain :: Animation Cairo V2 Double -> IO () Source #
animMain is like defaultMain, but renders an animation
instead of a diagram. It takes as input an animation and produces
a command-line program which will crudely "render" the animation
by rendering one image for each frame, named by extending the given
output file name by consecutive integers. For example if the given
output file name is foo/blah.png, the frames will be saved in
foo/blah001.png, foo/blah002.png, and so on (the number of
padding digits used depends on the total number of frames). It is
up to the user to take these images and stitch them together into
an actual animation format (using, e.g. ffmpeg).
Of course, this is a rather crude method of rendering animations; more sophisticated methods will likely be added in the future.
The --fpu option can be used to control how many frames will be
output for each second (unit time) of animation.
gifMain :: [(QDiagram Cairo V2 Double Any, GifDelay)] -> IO () Source #
gifMain takes a list of diagram and delay time pairs and produces a
command line program to generate an animated GIF, with options GifOpts.
"Delay times are in 1/100ths of a second."
Example usage:
$ ghc --make GifTest [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( GifTest.hs, GifTest.o ) Linking GifTest ... ./GifTest --help GifTest Usage: GifTest [-w|--width WIDTH] [-h|--height HEIGHT] [-o|--output OUTPUT] [--dither] [--looping-off] [--loop-repeat ARG] Command-line diagram generation. Available options: -?,--help Show this help text -w,--width WIDTH Desired WIDTH of the output image -h,--height HEIGHT Desired HEIGHT of the output image -o,--output OUTPUT OUTPUT file --dither Turn on dithering. --looping-off Turn looping off --loop-repeat ARG Number of times to repeat
GIF support
Extra options for animated GIFs.
Constructors
| GifOpts | |
Fields
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Backend tokens
This data declaration is simply used as a token to distinguish
the cairo backend: (1) when calling functions where the type
inference engine would otherwise have no way to know which
backend you wanted to use, and (2) as an argument to the
Backend and Renderable type classes.