News

• 12 February 2010: upgraded to GfxBuilder 0.2.3 and Grails 1.2.0
• 15 October 2009: upgraded to GfxBuilder 0.2.1
• 9 July 2008: added SVG support, image caching
• 4 June 2008: first release!

Description

J2D plugin allows you to draw images on the fly with Java2D, using GfxBuilder under the covers . The first release supports regular image output (gif|png|svg). Please visit GfxBuilder's site to learn more about the nodes that can be used, several graphic examples are also available at http://jroller.com/aalmiray/tags/graphicsbuilder and http://jroller.com/aalmiray/tags/gfx

The current version of the j2d plugin is 0.4, which was released on February 12th 2010.

Usage

The plugin works by adding a new method to all controller classes: renderImage. This method takes a Map and a Closure as parameters, the Map will specify optional properties and hints for image processing (like width, height and format), the Closure being the actual graphics instructions to be rendered. Here is a basic example that outputs two colored squares (one red, one blue) in png format (the default value)

class MyController {
  def graph = {
    renderImage(width: 100, height: 100) {
       rect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 100, height: 100, fill: 'red')
       // same graphic node but using property aliases
       rect(x: 20, y: 20, w: 60, h: 60, f: color('#00F'))
    }
  }
}

Parameters

The following is a list of currently supported parameters in renderImage