man Imager::Inline () - using Imager with Inline::C.

NAME

Imager::Inline - using Imager with Inline::C.

SYNOPSIS

  use Inline with => 'Imager';
  use Inline C => <<'EOS';
  Imager some_func(Imager::Color c, Imager::Fill f) {
    Imager img = i_img_8_new(200, 200, 3);
    /* fill with color */
    i_box_filled(img, 0, 0, 199, 199, c);
    /* inner area with fill */
    i_box_cfill(img, 50, 50, 149, 149, f);


    return img;
  }
  EOS

DESCRIPTION

Imager hooks into Inline's CWwith syntax to make it easier to write Inline::C code that works with Imager, you can call Imager functions without having to include headers or perform initialization.

Imager's inline CWwith support does the following:

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add the installed Imager include directory to INC
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add the Imager typemap to TYPEMAPS
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include the headers needed by Imager C extension modules.
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declare and initialize the Imager API function table pointer
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filter the supplied code to replace Imager's class names with those that Inline::C can handle.

LIMITATIONS

The filtering mechanism is global, it will replace the class names even inside string constants. If you need a string matching the name of one of Imager's classes, like CW"Imager::Color" you will need to split it into 2 to use C's string pasting mechanism, for example: CW"Imager:" ":Color".

AUTHOR

Tony Cook <tony@imager.perl.org>

REVISION

$Revision$

SEE ALSO

Imager, Imager::ExtUtils, Imager::API, Imager::APIRef, samples/inline_replace_color.pl