3 The `GDIMetaFile` class reads, writes, manipulates and replays metafiles via the
6 A typical use case is to initialize a new `GDIMetaFile`, open the actual stored
7 metafile and read it in via `GDIMetaFile::Read( aIStream )`. This reads in the
8 metafile into the `GDIMetafile` object - it can read in an old-style `VCLMTF`
9 metafile (back in the days that Microsoft didn't document the metafile format
10 this was used), as well as EMF+ files - and adds them to a list (vector) of
11 `MetaActions`. You can also populate your own `GDIMetaFile` via `AddAction()`,
12 `RemoveAction()`, `ReplaceAction()`, etc.
14 Once the `GDIMetafile` object is read to be used, you can "play" the metafile,
15 "pause" it, "wind forward" or "rewind" the metafile. The metafile can be moved,
16 scaled, rotated and clipped, as well have the colours adjusted or replaced, or
19 The GDIMetafile can be used to get an `OutputDevice`'s metafile via the
20 `Linker()` and `Record()` functions.
24 First, create a new `GDIMetafile`, this can be done via the default constructor.
25 It can then be constructed manually, or you can use `Record()` on an
26 `OutputDevice` to populate the `GDIMetaFile`, or of course you can read it from
27 file with `Read()`. From here you can then elect to manipulate the metafile, or
28 play it back to another `GDIMetafile` or to an `OutputDevice` via `Play()`. To
29 store the file, use `Write()`.
31 ### CONSTRUCTORS AND DESTRUCTORS
34 - `GDIMetaFile( const GDIMetaFile& rMtf )` - copy constructor
43 ### RECORDING AND PLAYBACK FUNCTIONS
45 - `Play(GDIMetaFile&, size_t)` - play back metafile into another
46 metafile up to position
47 - `Play(OutputDevice*, size_t)` - play back metafile into
48 `OutputDevice` up to position
49 - `Play(OutputDevice*, Point, Size, size_t)` - play back metafile into
50 `OutputDevice` at a particular
51 location on the `OutputDevice`, up
52 to the position in the metafile
53 - `Pause` - pauses or continues the playback
55 - `Stop` - stop playback fully
56 - `WindStart` - windback to start of the metafile
57 - `windPrev` - windback one record
58 - `GetActionSize` - get the number of records in the
62 ### METAFILE RECORD FUNCTIONS
64 - `FirstAction` - get the first metafile record
65 - `NextAction` - get the next metafile record from
67 - `GetAction(size_t)` - get the metafile record at
69 - `GetCurAction` - get the current metafile record
70 - `AddAction(MetaAction*)` - appends a metafile record
71 - `AddAction(MetaAction*, size_t)` - adds a metafile record to a
72 particular location in the file
73 - `RemoveAction` - removes record at file location
74 - `Clear` - first stops if recording, then
75 removes all metafile records
76 - `push_back` - pushes back, basically a thin
77 wrapper to the metafile record list
88 ### DISPLACEMENT FUNCTIONS
90 - `Move( long nX, long nX)`
91 - `Move( long nX, long nX, long nDPIX, long nDPIY )` - Move method getting
92 specifics how to handle
93 MapMode( MapUnit::MapPixel )
96 ### TRANSFORMATION FUNCTIONS
98 - `Scale( double fScaleX, double fScaleY )`
99 - `Scale( const Fraction& rScaleX, const Fraction& rScaleY )`
101 - `Rotate( long nAngle10 )`
102 - `Clip( const Rectangle& )`
105 ### COLOR ADJUSTMENT FUNCTIONS
107 - `Adjust` - change luminance, contrast,
108 gamma and RGB via a percentage
109 - `Convert` - colour conversion
115 `MetaAction`: a base class used by all records. It implements a command-like
116 pattern, and also acts as a prototype for other actions.
118 ### CONSTRUCTORS AND DESTRUCTORS
120 - `MetaAction()` - default constructor, sets mnRefCount to 1 and
121 mnType, in this case MetaActionType::NONE
122 - `MetaAction(sal_uInt16 nType)` - virtual constructor, sets mnType to nType, and
128 - `Execute(OutputDevice*)` - execute the functionality of the record to the
129 OutputDevice. Part of command pattern.
132 - `Clone()` - prototype clone function
134 ### MANIPULATION FUNCTIONS
136 - `Move(long nHorzMove, long nVerMove)`
137 - `Scale(double fScaleX, double fScaleY)`
140 ### READ AND WRITE FUNCTIONS
144 - `ReadMetaAction` - a static function, only used to determine which
145 MetaAction to call on to read the record, which
146 means that this is the function that must be used.
148 ### INTROSPECTIVE FUNCTIONS
152 ### A note about MetaCommentAction
154 So this class is the most interesting - a comment record is what is used to
155 extended metafiles, to make what we call an "Enhanced Metafile". This basically
156 gets the `OutputDevice`'s connect metafile and adds the record via this when it
157 runs `Execute()`. It doesn't actually do anything else, unlike other
158 `MetaAction`s which invoke functions from `OutputDevice`. And if there is no
159 connect metafile in `OutputDevice`, then it just does nothing at all in Execute.
160 Everything else works as normal (Read, Write, etc).
164 The following illustrates an exceptionally basic and incomplete implementation
165 of how to use `GDIMetafile`. An example can be found at
166 `vcl/workben/mtfdemo.cxx`
171 // assume that VCL has been initialized and a new application created
173 Window* pWin = new WorkWindow();
174 GDIMetaFile* pMtf = new GDIMetaFile();
176 SvFileStream aFileStream("example.emf", STEAM_READ);
178 ReadWindowMetafile(aFileStream, pMtf);