transparency.C

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/// \file
/// \ingroup tutorial_graphics
/// \notebook
/// This macro demonstrates the use of color transparency.
///
/// It is done by specifying the alpha value of a given color.
/// For instance
///
/// ~~~
///    ellipse->SetFillColorAlpha(9, 0.571);
/// ~~~
///
/// changes the ellipse fill color to the index 9 with an alpha value of 0.571.
/// 0. would be fully transparent (invisible) and 1. completely opaque (the default).
///
/// The transparency is available on all platforms when the flag
/// `OpenGL.CanvasPreferGL` is set to `1` in `$ROOTSYS/etc/system.rootrc`, or
/// on Mac with the Cocoa backend. X11 does not support transparency. On the file
/// output it is visible with PDF, PNG, Gif, JPEG, SVG ... but not PostScript.
///
/// \macro_image
/// \macro_code
///
/// \author Olivier Couet

void transparency()
{
   TCanvas *c1 = new TCanvas("c1", "c1",224,330,700,527);
   c1->Range(-0.125,-0.125,1.125,1.125);

   TLatex *tex = new TLatex(0.06303724,0.0194223,"This text is opaque and this line is transparent");
   tex->SetLineWidth(2);
   tex->Draw();

   TArrow *arrow = new TArrow(0.5555158,0.07171314,0.8939828,0.6195219,0.05,"|>");
   arrow->SetLineWidth(4);
   arrow->SetAngle(30);
   arrow->Draw();

   // Draw a transparent graph.
   Double_t x[10] = {
   0.5232808, 0.8724928, 0.9280086, 0.7059456, 0.7399714,
   0.4659742, 0.8241404, 0.4838825, 0.7936963, 0.743553};
   Double_t y[10] = {
   0.7290837, 0.9631474, 0.4775896, 0.6494024, 0.3555777,
   0.622012, 0.7938247, 0.9482072, 0.3904382, 0.2410359};
   TGraph *graph = new TGraph(10,x,y);
   graph->SetLineColorAlpha(46, 0.1);
   graph->SetLineWidth(7);
   graph->Draw("l");

   // Draw an ellipse with opaque colors.
   TEllipse *ellipse = new TEllipse(0.1740688,0.8352632,0.1518625,0.1010526,0,360,0);
   ellipse->SetFillColor(30);
   ellipse->SetLineColor(51);
   ellipse->SetLineWidth(3);
   ellipse->Draw();

   // Draw an ellipse with transparent colors, above the previous one.
   ellipse = new TEllipse(0.2985315,0.7092105,0.1566977,0.1868421,0,360,0);
   ellipse->SetFillColorAlpha(9, 0.571);
   ellipse->SetLineColorAlpha(8, 0.464);
   ellipse->SetLineWidth(3);
   ellipse->Draw();

   // Draw a transparent blue text.
   tex = new TLatex(0.04871059,0.1837649,"This text is transparent");
   tex->SetTextColorAlpha(9, 0.476);
   tex->SetTextSize(0.125);
   tex->SetTextAngle(26.0);
   tex->Draw();
}