[Gambas-user] A sentence in the PaintBrush documentation

[Tobias Boege]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Beno?t Minisini wrote:
> Le 21/02/2015 17:52, Tobias Boege a ?crit :
> > On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Beno?t Minisini wrote:
> >> Le 21/02/2015 16:16, Tobias Boege a ?crit :
> >>> Benoit,
> >>>
> >>> while you're here, I have a second question. There is a sentence in the
> >>> PaintBrush docs[0]:
> >>>
> >>>     "Gradient brushes limits are not anti-aliased when they are scaled!"
> >>>
> >>> What does that mean? I have created a LinearGradient brush and scaled the
> >>> user-space afterwards: the brush still paints smoothly. In another run, I
> >>> scaled the brush-space afterwards: the brush also paints smoothly.
> >>
> >> It means what it means, at least the last time I looked. Try to draw a
> >> repeated linear gradient that is turned 45?.
> >>
> >
> > Attached is a screenshot (with the code). Where is the effect supposed to
> > show (or what is wrong in the code)? Also what does a "repeated linear
> > gradient turned 45 degrees" have to do with "scaling" as mentioned in the
> > docs?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tobi
> >
> 
> Try with an end color different from the start color, for example 
> [Color.Black, Color.White] and [0.0, 1.0]. Use another angle, for 
> example 30?. And scale the brush with a brush matrix.
> 

Got it. Thank you very much.

-- 
"There's an old saying: Don't change anything... ever!" -- Mr. Monk
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