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get-argb-pixels
get-depth
get-height
get-loaded-mask
get-width
is-color?
load-file
ok?
save-file
set-argb-pixels
set-loaded-mask

bitmap% : class?

  superclass: object%

A bitmap% object is a pixel-based image, either monochrome, color, or color with an alpha channel. See also make-screen-bitmap and make-bitmap in canvas%.

A bitmap is convertible to 'png-bytes through the file/convertible protocol.

(make-object bitmap% width    
  height    
  [monochrome?    
  alpha?])  (is-a?/c bitmap%)
  width : exact-positive-integer?
  height : exact-positive-integer?
  monochrome? : any/c = #f
  alpha? : any/c = #f
(make-object bitmap% in    
  [kind    
  bg-color    
  complain-on-failure?])  (is-a?/c bitmap%)
  in : (or/c path-string? input-port?)
  kind : 
(one-of/c 'unknown 'unknown/mask 'unknown/alpha
          'gif 'gif/mask 'gif/alpha
          'jpeg 'jpeg/alpha
          'png 'png/mask 'png/alpha
          'xbm 'xbm/alpha 'xpm 'xpm/alpha
          'bmp 'bmp/alpha)
   = 'unknown
  bg-color : (or/c (is-a?/c color%) false/c) = #f
  complain-on-failure? : any/c = #f
(make-object bitmap% bits width height)  (is-a?/c bitmap%)
  bits : bytes?
  width : exact-positive-integer?
  height : exact-positive-integer?
The make-bitmap, make-monochrome-bitmap, and read-bitmap functions are preferred over using make-object with bitmap%, because the functions are less overloaded and provide more useful defaults.

When width and height are provided: Creates a new bitmap. If monochrome? is true, the bitmap is monochrome; if monochrome? is #f and alpha? is true, the bitmap has an alpha channel; otherwise, the bitmap is color without an alpha channel.

The initial content of the bitmap is “empty”: all white, and with zero alpha in the case of a bitmap with an alpha channel.

When in is provided: Creates a bitmap from a file format, where kind specifies the format. See load-file for details.

When a bits byte string is provided: Creates a monochrome bitmap from an array of bit values, where each byte in bits specifies eight bits, and padding bits are added so that each bitmap line starts on a character boundary. A 1 bit value indicates black, and 0 indicates white. If width times height is larger than 8 times the length of bits, an exn:fail:contract exception is raised.

(send a-bitmap get-argb-pixels x    
  y    
  width    
  height    
  pixels    
  [alpha?])  void?
  x : real?
  y : real?
  width : exact-nonnegative-integer?
  height : exact-nonnegative-integer?
  pixels : (and/c bytes? mutable?)
  alpha? : any/c = #f
Produces the same result as get-argb-pixels in bitmap-dc%, but the bitmap does not have to be selected into the DC (and this method works even if the bitmap is selected into another DC, attached as a button label, etc.).

Gets the color depth of the bitmap, which is 1 for a monochrome bitmap and 32 for a color bitmap. See also is-color?.

Gets the height of the bitmap in pixels.

(send a-bitmap get-loaded-mask)
  (or/c (is-a?/c bitmap%) false/c)
Returns a mask bitmap that is stored with this bitmap.

When a GIF file is loaded with 'gif/mask or 'unknown/mask and the file contains a transparent “color,” a mask bitmap is generated to identify the transparent pixels. The mask bitmap is monochrome, with white pixels where the loaded bitmap is transparent and black pixels everywhere else.

When a PNG file is loaded with 'png/mask or 'unknown/mask and the file contains a mask or alpha channel, a mask bitmap is generated to identify the mask or alpha channel. If the file contains a mask or an alpha channel with only extreme values, the mask bitmap is monochrome, otherwise it is grayscale (representing the alpha channel inverted).

When an XPM file is loaded with 'xpm/mask or 'unknown/mask, a mask bitmap is generated to indicate which pixels are set.

When 'unknown/alpha and similar modes are used to load a bitmap, transparency information is instead represented by an alpha channel, not by a mask bitmap.

Unlike an alpha channel, the mask bitmap is not used automatically by drawing routines. The mask bitmap can be extracted and supplied explicitly as a mask (e.g., as the sixth argument to draw-bitmap). The mask bitmap is used by save-file when saving a bitmap as 'png if the mask has the same dimensions as the saved bitmap. The mask bitmap is also used automatically when the bitmap is a control label.

Gets the width of the bitmap in pixels.

(send a-bitmap is-color?)  boolean?
Returns #f if the bitmap is monochrome, #t otherwise.

(send a-bitmap load-file in    
  [kind    
  bg-color    
  complain-on-failure?])  boolean?
  in : (or/c path-string? input-port?)
  kind : 
(one-of/c 'unknown 'unknown/mask 'unknown/alpha
          'gif 'gif/mask 'gif/alpha
          'jpeg 'jpeg/alpha
          'png 'png/mask 'png/alpha
          'xbm 'xbm/alpha 'xpm 'xpm/alpha
          'bmp 'bmp/alpha)
   = 'unknown
  bg-color : (or/c (is-a?/c color%) false/c) = #f
  complain-on-failure? : any/c = #f
Loads a bitmap from a file format that read from in, unless the bitmap was produced by make-screen-bitmap or make-bitmap in canvas% (in which case an exn:fail:contract exception is raised). If the bitmap is in use by a bitmap-dc% object or a control, the image data is not loaded. The bitmap changes its size and depth to match that of the loaded image. If an error is encountered when reading the file format, an exception is raised only if complain-on-failure? is true (which is not the default).

The kind argument specifies the file’s format:

An XBM image is always loaded as a monochrome bitmap. A 1-bit grayscale PNG without a mask or alpha channel is also loaded as a monochrome bitmap. An image in any other format is always loaded as a color bitmap.

For PNG loading, if bg-color is not #f, then it is combined with the file’s alpha channel or mask (if any) while loading the image; in this case, no separate mask bitmap is generated and the alpha channel fills the bitmap, even if 'unknown/mask, 'png/mask is specified for the format. If the format is specified as 'unknown or 'png and bg-color is not specified, the PNG file is consulted for a background color to use for loading, and white is used if no background color is indicated in the file.

In all PNG-loading modes, gamma correction is applied when the file provides a gamma value, otherwise gamma correction is not applied. The current display’s gamma factor is determined by the SCREEN_GAMMA environment variable if it is defined. If the preference and environment variable are both undefined, a platform-specific default is used.

(send a-bitmap ok?)  boolean?
Returns #t if the bitmap is valid in the sense that an image file was loaded successfully. If ok? returns #f, then drawing to or from the bitmap has no effect.

(send a-bitmap save-file name kind [quality])  boolean?
  name : (or/c path-string? output-port?)
  kind : (one-of/c 'png 'jpeg 'xbm 'xpm 'bmp)
  quality : (integer-in 0 100) = 75
Writes a bitmap to the named file or output stream.

The kind argument determined the type of file that is created, one of:

The quality argument is used only for saving as 'jpeg, in which case it specifies the trade-off between image precision (high quality matches the content of the bitmap% object more precisely) and size (low quality is smaller).

When saving as 'png, if get-loaded-mask returns a bitmap of the same size as this one, a grayscale version is included in the PNG file as the alpha channel.

A monochrome bitmap saved as 'png without a mask bitmap produces a 1-bit grayscale PNG file (which, when read with load-file, creates a monochrome bitmap% object.)

(send a-bitmap set-argb-pixels x    
  y    
  width    
  height    
  pixels    
  [alpha?])  void?
  x : real?
  y : real?
  width : exact-nonnegative-integer?
  height : exact-nonnegative-integer?
  pixels : bytes?
  alpha? : any/c = #f
The same as set-argb-pixels in bitmap-dc%, but the bitmap does not have to be selected into the DC.

(send a-bitmap set-loaded-mask mask)  void?
  mask : (is-a?/c bitmap%)