Maximum size of a canvas?

[Jim Graham]

The Canvas is simply a texture of the specified dimensions.  (We do 
scale that size by any pixel scale applied to the entire scene, as in 
Mac retina's 2x scale, but it's size is interpreted in the same 
coordinate space as the Stage, Scene and the root Node coordinates.)

Transform properties on the Canvas Node (scale, rotate, translate, list 
of transform objects) are applied to the pixels in the texture as they 
are incorporated into the scene as if it were an Image.

Transform properties in the GraphicsContext are applied during rendering.

So, neither affects the other or is a shortcut to the other.  They do 
combine visually into the end product, but one is at the 
rendering-into-the-texture stage and the other is at the 
blit-texture-to-the-screen stage.  Transformations applied to the Canvas 
node properties can lead to pixel stretching artifacts...

			...jim

On 5/15/15 8:02 AM, Werner Lehmann wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> interesting idea although I am not sure in which way this improves
> things. I am already scaling the canvas node if it is bigger than
> necessary (due to previous zoom, works like supersampling then) or
> smaller than necessary (if the maximum size is reached but I need to
> present the content bigger than that).
>
> Looks as if the scaling of the canvas and the scaling of the
> graphicscontext might both be applied at the same time - unless one is
> simply a shortcut to the other. I have to experiment on this one.
>
> Rgds
> Werner
>
> On 15.05.2015 16:15, Jeff Hain wrote:
>> Instead of creating an eventually (and quadratically) huge canvas,
>> you could try using Canvas.getGraphicsContext().scale(2
>> double)/translate(2 double),
>> and "bind" the scroll bars to the {canvas dimensions, applied transform}
>> data.