[Bioperl-l] bioperl graphics

[Lincoln Stein]

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Sorry, but if you change colorAllocate() to colorResolve(), you will 
break the ability to generate publication-quality images with 
GD::SVG.  Perhaps Todd Harris will add colorResolve() to a future 
version of GD::SVG, in which case I will make the suggested change to 
Bio::Graphics.

I would recommend instead making two Bio::Graphics::Panel objects, and 
generating a pair of GD objects (using the Panel->gd() method).  Then 
you can combine them onto a third GD object in whatever geometry you 
want by using GD->copy()

Lincoln

On Wednesday 25 February 2004 06:46 pm, Jonathan Crabtree wrote:
> Haibo-
>
> hz5 at njit.edu wrote:
> >Is there any way to render 2 Bio::Graphics::Panel into one png
> > image? because I want 2 different arrows with different labeled
> > coordinates on the same image and align to the left, but one
> > Panel can only have one coordinates system.
>
> The answer is yes, with a couple of caveats.  The first is that you
> will have to take care of the layout of the individual
> Panel-generated images.  If you're left-justifying everything then
> this should be easy enough.  The second is that I would recommend
> making a one-line change to Bio/Graphics/Panel.pm, to prevent the
> package from trying to allocate the same set of colors twice (when
> you reuse the same GD object to draw the two different parts of the
> image.)  Search for the following piece of code in Panel.pm (at
> line 411 in bioperl-1.4, I think):
>
>   for my $name ('white','black',keys %COLORS) {
>     my $idx = $gd->colorAllocate(@{$COLORS{$name}});
>     $translation_table{$name} = $idx;
>   }
>
> Change "colorAllocate" to "colorResolve"; this should have no
> effect on any existing Bio::Graphics code (AFAIK) and will allow
> you to do your two (or three or four)-Panel trick.  (As an aside,
> I'd like to lobby for this one-line change to be made in a future
> version of
> Bio::Graphics::Panel, for precisely this reason.)  In any case,
> once you've made that change and reinstalled your copy of Bioperl,
> here is a rough outline of what you need to do:
>
> 1. Set up your individual Bio::Graphics::Panel objects (e.g. $p1,
> $p2, $p3, etc.) as desired to draw your images, but do *not* call
> the gd method on any of them yet.
>
> 2. Create a GD::Image object big enough to hold the images that
> will be drawn by $p1, $p2, $p3, etc.:
>     my $gdImg = GD::Image->new($fullWidth, $fullHeight);
> (Note: use $p1->width(), $p1->height(), etc., to determine what
> $fullWidth and $fullHeight should be, based on your desired Panel
> layout algorithm.)
>
> 4. Use a "dummy" Bio::Graphics::Panel object to allocate all your
> colors (this is an optional step; I do this because my code does
> some drawing that isn't handled by Bio::Graphics::Panel, and want
> to make sure that the palette has been allocated before I start):
>
>     my $dummyPanel = Bio::Graphics::Panel->new(-length => 100,
> -offset => 0, -width => $fullWidth);
>     $dummyPanel->gd($gdImg); # forces color allocation
>
> 5. Draw the individual panels and generate your png image:
>
>     $p1->gd($gdImg);
>     $p2->gd($gdImg);
>     my $pngData = $gdImg->png();
>
> I've glossed over some of the details here, for example the fact
> that you may need to know the value of $p1->height() before you can
> initialize $p2, but that's the basic idea.  I've been using this
> method to generate some comparative sequence displays and while
> it's definitely a bit of a hack, it works well in practice.  You
> can also do the same thing with a GD::SVG::Image if you'd like to
> generate SVG output.  Good luck,
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
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Lincoln D. Stein
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724
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