Drawing, Editing and Filling in Cold Fusion with csImageFile

This page explains some of the drawing and editing functions of csImageFile. For a description of each command, refer to the instructions. We will try to cover some of the issues here that can cause confusion.

The following example shows the effect of the PenColor, PenThickness, BrushColor and BrushStyle properties.

<cfscript>
Image.NewImage(200, 200, "FFFFFF");
Image.Rectangle(10, 10, 90, 90);
Image.PenColor = "FF0000";
Image.PenThickness = 5;
Image.BrushColor = "0000FF";
Image.BrushStyle = 0;
Image.Rectangle(110, 10, 190, 90);
Image.PenThickness = 1;
Image.Line(0, 100, 100, 199);
Image.Line(100, 199, 199, 100);
Image.BrushColor = "00FF00";
Image.FloodFill(10, 190);
</cfscript>

Drawing and filling shapes in Cold Fusion

The first rectangle is drawn using the default settings for the pen and brush, which gives a black line one pixel wide and a clear background. For the second rectangle the PenThickness is 5 and the BrushColor is blue. The BrushStyle property must also be set to solid (zero) for the shape to be filled with the brush colour.

The PenThickness property is set back to 1 to draw the lines. Note that although the image is 200 pixels square, the coordinates range from 0 to 199. Also, when drawing with the Line command the destination pixel is not filled in.

The FloodFill command is used to fill an area with BrushColor. It fills all adjoining pixels that are the same colour. It does not fill adjoining pixels that are a similar colour, they must be exactly the same. This makes it unsuitable for filling areas on JPEGs where the colours are not continuous. The alternative fill command is FillToBorder which fills an area enclosed by a specified colour and this can be used for areas that are not a continuous colour although there must be an enclosing border to the area filled.

The Pixel(X, Y) Property

It is worth mentioning this property because it can be useful. It returns the colour of the pixel at X, Y and can also be set to change individual pixel colours. If, for example, it is known that the pixel at (0, 0) is the colour of the entire image background it could be used to set transparency:

Image.TransparentColor = Image.Pixel(0, 0);
Image.Transparent = true;

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