Syntax for image-pattern support in CSS

[Richard Bair]

Sounds good, I am updating the parser. It does irritate me that proportional is true by default, just because it means that the tiling case (probably the most common case) requires the long form. I wouldn't want the inconsistency from CSS to constructors though. What bothers me is that giving the anchor meaning is kind of unnecessary most of the time, because all you want to do is have the image at its intrinsic width/height tiled. But you have to hard code sizes in this call in CSS, don't you?

As far percent, I agree that would be nicer than 0-1. However, I'm not sure how to make it sensible with that final boolean. I could just say that 0% == 0, and 100% == 1. The final boolean could be optional since it defaults to true. You have to specify the long form if you want it to tile. Irritating, but not the end of the world.

Richard

On Aug 31, 2012, at 6:15 AM, David Grieve wrote:

> Instead of url, I'd prefer both be image-pattern, since ImagePattern has a ctor taking just the image. Syntax would be
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> image-pattern(<string>[,<number>,<number>,<number>,<number>,<boolean>]?)
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> which, as you mention, maps 1-1 onto ImagePattern. The problem here, though, is how to get tiling without knowing the size of the image since the ImagePattern default is stretch. You propose a url syntax.  Will people be confused by this? I suggest a function 
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> repeating-image-pattern(<string>)
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> which gets you the repeat. This is unambiguous and follows what W3C does for gradients (e.g., repeating-radial-gradient).
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> 
> On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:20 PM, Richard Bair wrote:
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>> http://javafx-jira.kenai.com/browse/RT-19455
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>> Anywhere a Paint is allowed:
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>> url('region/test20x20.png');
>> image-pattern('region/test20x20.png', 0, 0, 1, 1, true);
>> 
>> The syntax is exactly the same as our ImagePattern class. I rather chose the rgb() style function rather than linear, radial gradient style named parameters both because it was less work and less syntax to define, and because there aren't many params and I thought I'd just map directly to the class. I could have tried giving percentage based value support (percent of what? The image, the dest?) but I decided to just stick with plain numbers. Most of the time people will either just use the url version and get tiling for free, or they will use the image-pattern version and get it stretched (as I've done here). Or they can do whatever with the image-pattern version.
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>> What do you think?
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>> (I'm attacking this issue right now, incidentally, because I'm working on numerous Region performance and behavior issues, and in my travels I noticed some very useful rendering modes are not supported currently with respect to images, so I thought I would round it all out while I was in the code).
>> 
>> Richard
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