Class: Depth4Image

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Class protocol
  • queries
• Instance protocol
  • accessing-pixels
  • converting images
  • dither helpers
  • enumerating
  • magnification
  • queries

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--Image
      |
      +--Depth4Image

Package:

stx:libview

Category:

Graphics-Images

Version:

rev: 1.51 date: 2009/11/05 14:37:10

user: stefan

file: Depth4Image.st directory: libview

module: stx stc-classLibrary: libview

Author:

Claus Gittinger

Description:

this class represents 16-color (4 bit / pixel) images.
Most images coming from the windows world are represented as Depth4Images.
It mainly consists of methods already implemented in Image,
reimplemented here for more performance.

Related information:

    Depth1Image
    Depth2Image
    Depth8Image
    Depth16Image
    Depth24Image
    ImageReader

Class protocol:

 defaultPhotometric

return the default photometric pixel interpretation

 imageDepth

return the depth of images represented by instances of
this class - here we return 4

Instance protocol:

 pixelAtX: x y: y

retrieve a pixel at x/y; return a pixelValue.
Pixels start at x=0 , y=0 for upper left pixel, end at
x = width-1, y=height-1 for lower right pixel

 pixelAtX: x y: y put: aPixelValue

set the pixel at x/y to aPixelValue.
Pixels start at x=0 , y=0 for upper left pixel, end at
x = width-1, y=height-1 for lower right pixel

 rowAt: y into: aPixelBuffer

fill aBuffer with pixel values retrieved from a single row.
Notice: row coordinate starts with 0.

 anyImageAsTrueColorFormOn: aDevice

return a true-color device-form for receiver.
Supports true color devices with depths: 8, 16, 24 and 32

 greyImageAsTrueColorFormOn: aDevice

return a true-color device-form for the grey-image receiver.
Supports true color devices with depths: 8, 16, 24 and 32

 paletteImageAsTrueColorFormOn: aDevice

return a true-color device-form for the palette-image receiver.
Supports true color devices with depths: 8, 16, 24 and 32

 rgbImageAsTrueColorFormOn: aDevice

return a true-color device-form for the rgb-image receiver.
Supports true color devices with depths: 8, 16, 24 and 32

 orderedDitheredGrayBitsWithDitherMatrix: ditherMatrix ditherWidth: dW depth: depth

return the bitmap for a dithered depth-bitmap from the image;
with a constant ditherMatrix, this can be used for thresholding.
Redefined to make use of knowing that pixels are 4-bit values.

 orderedDitheredMonochromeBitsWithDitherMatrix: ditherMatrix ditherWidth: dW

return the dithered monochrome bits for the receiver image;
with a constant ditherMatrix, this can be used for thresholding.
Redefined to make use of knowing that pixels are 4-bit values.

 colorsAtY: y from: xLow to: xHigh do: aBlock

perform aBlock for each pixel from x1 to x2 in row y.
The block is passed the color at each pixel.
This method allows slighly faster processing of an
image than using atX:y:, since some processing can be
avoided when going from pixel to pixel. However, for
real image processing, specialized methods should be written.

 valuesAtY: y from: xLow to: xHigh do: aBlock

perform aBlock for each pixelValue from x1 to x2 in row y.
The block is passed the pixelValue at each pixel.
This method allows slighly faster processing of an
image than using valueAtX:y:, since some processing can be
avoided when going from pixel to pixel. However, for
real image processing, specialized methods should be written.

 magnifyRowFrom: srcBytes offset: srcStart into: dstBytes offset: dstStart factor: mX

magnify a single pixel row - can only magnify by integer factors.
Specially tuned for factor 2.

 bitsPerPixel

return the number of bits per pixel

 bitsPerRow

return the number of bits in one scanline of the image

 bytesPerRow

return the number of bytes in one scanline of the image

 colorFromValue: pixelValue

given a pixel value, return the corresponding color.
Pixel values start with 0.

 usedValues

return a collection of color values used in the receiver.