MarkupRenderer

class Communicator.Markup.MarkupRenderer(): This class provides an interface for MarkupItems to draw on the canvas.

Methods

drawCircle()
drawCircles()
drawLine()
drawLines()
drawPolygon()
drawPolygons()
drawPolyline()
drawPolylines()
drawRectangle()
drawRectangles()
drawText()
drawTextBox()
drawTextBoxes()
drawTexts()
measureText()
measureTextBox()

Methods

drawCircle

MarkupRenderer.drawCircle(circle)

Renders a circle to the markup layer.

Arguments

circle (Circle()) – the circle to draw.

Return type

Element

Returns

SVG element for the circle. This element is temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawCircles

MarkupRenderer.drawCircles(circles)

Renders a collection of circles sharing the same properties to the markup layer.

Arguments

circles (CircleCollection()) – the collection of circle to render.

Return type

[Element]

Returns

an array containing SVG elements for each circle. These elements are temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawLine

MarkupRenderer.drawLine(line)

Renders a line to the markup layer.

Arguments

line (Line()) – the line to render.

Return type

Element

Returns

SVG element for the line. This element is temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawLines

MarkupRenderer.drawLines(lines)

Renders a collection of lines sharing the same properties to the markup layer.

Arguments

lines (LineCollection()) – the collection of lines to render.

Return type

[Element]

Returns

an array containing SVG elements for each line. These elements are temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawPolygon

MarkupRenderer.drawPolygon(polygon)

Renders a polygon to the markup layer.

Arguments

polygon (Polygon()) – the polygon to render.

Return type

Element

Returns

SVG element for the polygon. This element is temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawPolygons

MarkupRenderer.drawPolygons(polygons)

Renders a collection of polygons sharing the same properties to the markup layer.

Arguments

polygons (PolygonCollection()) – the collection of polygons to render.

Return type

[Element]

Returns

an array containing SVG elements for each polygon. These elements are temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawPolyline

MarkupRenderer.drawPolyline(polyline)

Renders a polyline to the markup layer.

Arguments

polyline (Polyline()) –

Return type

Element

Returns

SVG element for the line. This element is temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawPolylines

MarkupRenderer.drawPolylines(polylines)

Renders a collection of polylines sharing the same properties to the markup layer.

Arguments

polylines (PolylineCollection()) –

Return type

[Element]

Returns

an array containing SVG elements for each line. These elements are temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawRectangle

MarkupRenderer.drawRectangle(rectangle)

Renders a rectangle to the markup layer.

Arguments

rectangle (Rectangle()) – the rectangle to render.

Return type

Element

Returns

SVG element for the rectangle. This element is temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawRectangles

MarkupRenderer.drawRectangles(rectangles)

Renders a collection of rectangles sharing the same properties to the markup layer.

Arguments

rectangles (RectangleCollection()) – the collection of rectangles to render.

Return type

[Element]

Returns

an array containing SVG elements for each rectangle. These elements are temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawText

MarkupRenderer.drawText(text)

Renders text to the markup layer.

Arguments

text (Text()) – the text to render.

Return type

Element

Returns

SVG element for the text. This element is temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawTextBox

MarkupRenderer.drawTextBox(textBox)

Renders a text box to the markup layer.

Arguments

textBox (TextBox()) – the text box to render.

Return type

[Element]

Returns

SVG element pair for the text. The first item in this array corresponds to the rectangle. The second item corresponds to the text. These elements are temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawTextBoxes

MarkupRenderer.drawTextBoxes(textBoxes)

Renders a collection of text boxes sharing the same properties to the markup layer.

Arguments

textBoxes (TextBoxCollection()) – the collection of text boxes to render.

Return type

[[Element]]

Returns

an array containing SVG element pairs for each text box. These elements are temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

drawTexts

MarkupRenderer.drawTexts(texts)

Renders a collection of text sharing the same properties to the markup layer.

Arguments

texts (TextCollection()) – the collection of texts to render.

Return type

[Element]

Returns

an array containing SVG elements for each text. These elements are temporary and will not be preserved when the markup is redrawn.

measureText

MarkupRenderer.measureText(str, markup)

Computes the width and height of a string using the given text attributes.

Arguments

str (string()) – the text string to measure.
markup (TextMarkupBase()) –

Return type

Point2()

Returns

a point object containing the width and height in pixels of the string.

measureTextBox

MarkupRenderer.measureTextBox(textBox)

Computes the width and height of a text box.

Arguments

textBox (TextBox()) – the text box to measure.

Return type

Point2()

Returns

a point object containing the width and height in pixels of the text box.