NAME

Games::Chess::Coverage::GD - Visualize chess coverage with GD

SYNOPSIS

use Games::Chess::Coverage::GD;

my $drawing = Games::Chess::Coverage::GD->new(
    coverage   => $coverage_object,
    out_file   => 'eg/foo',
    image_type => 'gif',
);
while( my( $rule, $args ) = each %rule_set ) {
    $drawing->add_rule( $rule, %$args );
}
$drawing->draw;
$drawing->write;

DESCRIPTION

Represent chess coverage with the GD drawing module and plug-in rules based on board settings.

Please see the examples in the distribution eg/ directory.

METHODS

_init

Create an image based on the settings computed by the Games::Chess::Coverage::Draw parent.

add_rule

$drawing->add_rule( $rule, %args );

Add a rule to the drawing. This method is required and must call the add_rule method of the parent followed by this module's set_color method for all /_color$/ arguments provided.

Please see the method source code for the specific details.

set_color

$drawing->set_color( $name => [$red, $green, $blue] );

Create a new color object given an identifying name and an RGB array.

write

$drawing->write;
$drawing->write( $filename );

Write the image object to a file based on the out_file and image_type settings.

SEE ALSO

Games::Chess

Games::Chess::Coverage

Games::Chess::Coverage::Draw

GD

AUTHOR

Gene Boggs <gene@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2004, Gene Boggs

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.