[cairo] Using Cairo and Pango to scroll text on video

[Leon Woestenberg]

Hello,

On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 4:15 PM, <robertk54 at aol.com> wrote:

>  >>>Another workaround is to prerender the text to a similar surface
> >>>(cairo_surface_create_similar) and paint that intermediate surface to
> >>>the destination surface with the correct offset.
> >>
> >> Would using the latter method prevent me from using semi-transparent text
> >> and / or backgrounds?
> >
> >It would not if you pass CAIRO_CONTENT_COLOR_ALPHA to the function, see>http://cairographics.org/manual/cairo-cairo-surface-t.html#cairo-surface-create-similar
> >
> >Prerendering the text is much faster that having to render the text
> >again in every frame. It's only really a reasonable shortcut when the
> >text is only translated and perhaps rotated, but not zoomed though.
>
>
> I would love to pre-render the text but I think my use case makes it a bit more complex.
>
> The video frame is a fixed size ARGB surface which makes sense.  However, the text can
>
> be any size and often much wider than the video image.  I imagine this prevents me from being
>
> able to use 'create similar' since this would be using the video frame's surface, no?  I guess
>
> I could create a new ARGB image surface using the text dimensions?
>
>
> I have done this before using cairo and pango, basically a ticker bar on a
N width screen with smooth scrolling. My approach was something like this:

Make a text rendering surface 2 * N + C, C = 16 or such.

do {
Render text in the off screen part of the surface (which is now the
rightmost half of the surface).
Composite that surface from X=0 at X=0 to your main surface.
Composite that surface from X=2 at X=0 to your main surface (assuming your
step size = 2 pixels).
When you reach X = 2N render in the offscreen part of the text render
surface (which is now the leftmost half of the surface).
} while (true);

Regards,

Leon.
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