Scissoring, Masking, and Clearing

All drawing is clipped (restricted) to the bounds of the drawing surface, and may be further clipped to the interior of a set of scissoring rectangles. If available, a mask is applied for further clipping and to create soft edge and partial transparency effects.

Scissoring [7.1]

Drawing may be restricted to the union of a set of scissoring rectangles. Each scissoring rectangle is specified as an integer 4-tuple of the form (minX, minY, width, height). The scissoring region is defined as the union of all the specified rectangles. The rectangles as specified need not be disjoint. Scissoring is enabled when the parameter VG_SCISSORING has the value VG_TRUE. Scissoring may be disabled by calling vgSeti with a paramType argument of VG_SCISSORING and a value of VG_FALSE.

#define NUM_RECTS 2
/* { Min X, Min Y, Width, Height } 4-Tuples */
VGint coords[4 * NUM_RECTS] = {
    20, 30, 100, 200,
    50, 70, 80, 80
};
vgSetiv(VG_SCISSOR_RECTS, 4 * NUM_RECTS, coords)
/* enable scissoring */
vgSeti(VG_SCISSORING, VG_TRUE)

Masking [7.2]

All drawing operations may be modified by a drawing surface mask (also known as an alpha mask), which is a separate implementation-internal buffer defining an additional coverage value at each sample of the drawing surface. Masking is enabled when a mask is present for the drawing surface and the VG_MASKING parameter has the value VG_TRUE. Masking may be disabled by calling vgSeti with a parameter of VG_MASKING and a value of VG_FALSE. Alpha mask may be manipulated by the vgMask function: the function modifies the mask values according to a given operation, possibly using coverage values taken from a mask layer or bitmap image. In addition, may be modified by the The vgRenderToMask function: the function modifies the current mask by applying the given operation to the set of coverage values associated with the rendering of the given path.

void vgMask(VGHandle mask,
            VGMaskOperation op, 
            VGint x, VGint y,
            VGint width, VGint height)

void vgRenderToMask(VGPath path, VGbitfield paintMode, VGMaskOperation op)

VGMaskLayer vgCreateMaskLayer(VGint width, VGint height)

void vgDestroyMaskLayer(VGMaskLayer masklayer)

void vgFillMaskLayer(VGMaskLayer masklayer,
                     VGint x, VGint y,
                     VGint width, VGint height,
                     VGfloat val)

void vgCopyMask(VGMaskLayer masklayer,
                VGint x, VGint y, 
                VGint sx, VGint sy, 
                VGint width, VGint height, 
                VGfloat val)

The VGMaskOperation enumeration defines the set of possible operations that may be used to modify a mask.

Amask = input mask, Aprev = previous mask

Fast Clearing [7.3]

The vgClear function fills the portion of the drawing surface intersecting the rectangle extending from pixel (x, y) and having the given width and height with a constant color value, taken from the VG_CLEAR_COLOR parameter.

void vgClear(VGint x, VGint y, VGint width, VGint height)