Interface description

The different Glyph functions and a description of what they do:

glyph picture

create a new glyph instance initially displaying picture.

transparentGlyph picture

create a new transparent glyph instance initially displaying picture.

setPicture gl pic

replace current Glyph picture. The new picture is scaled to fit the currently allocated size for the Glyph.

addPicture gl pic

place pic on top of the current Glyph picture. Overlay is done by matching up the origins of the two Picture values.

newPicture gl pic

replace the current Glyph picture and resize the Glyph to at least the size of the bounding box of pic.

setResizeablePicture gl rp

newResizeablePicture gl rp pic

replace the Glyph's current picture with a `resizeable' one, See section Controlling the scaling of a picture for details. newResizeablePicture uses its third argument to set the size of the Glyph

resizeGlyph gl size

change the size of the Glyph, scaling the current Picture to fit.

setGlyphSize gl size

change the natural size of the Glyph. Nuke?

setGlyphPen gl pen

change the default Pen to apply to the Glyph's picture.

getPicture gl

returns current picture, with current glyph display transexampleion and pen applied.

getGlyphNatSize gl

getGlyphSize gl

return the natural and current size of the Glyph.

getGlyphPen gl

retunr current top level Pen.