Added the ability to set the overall alpha for a BitmapText.

This includes overriding the alpha values for any tagged
colors that might be in the text.  Previously the only way
to change the alpha was to set the BitmapText's main color
which overrode any color tags.


git-svn-id: https://jmonkeyengine.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@9911 75d07b2b-3a1a-0410-a2c5-0572b91ccdca

engine/src/core/com/jme3/font/BitmapText.java

@@ -181,6 +181,22 @@ public class BitmapText extends Node {
         letters.invalidate(); // TODO: Don't have to align.
         needRefresh = true;
     }
+    
+    /**
+     *  Sets an overall alpha that will be applied to all
+     *  letters.  If the alpha passed is -1 then alpha reverts
+     *  to default... which will be 1 for anything unspecified
+     *  and color tags will be reset to 1 or their encoded
+     *  alpha.
+     */
+    public void setAlpha(float alpha) {
+        letters.setBaseAlpha(alpha);
+        needRefresh = true;
+    }    
+
+    public float getAlpha() {
+        return letters.getBaseAlpha();
+    }
 
     /**
      * Define area where bitmaptext will be rendered

engine/src/core/com/jme3/font/ColorTags.java

@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ class ColorTags {
     		                                                    "\\\\#([0-9a-fA-F]{4})#|\\\\#([0-9a-fA-F]{3})#");
     private LinkedList<Range> colors = new LinkedList<Range>();
     private String text;
+    private String original;
+    private float baseAlpha = -1;
 
     ColorTags() { }
 
@@ -68,6 +70,7 @@ class ColorTags {
     }
 
     void setText(final String charSeq) {
+        original = charSeq;
         colors.clear();
         if (charSeq == null) {
             return;
@@ -92,6 +95,34 @@ class ColorTags {
             text = charSeq;
         }
     }
+
+    void setBaseAlpha( float alpha ) {
+        this.baseAlpha = alpha;
+        if( alpha == -1 ) {
+            // Need to reinitialize from the original text
+            setText(original);
+            return;
+        }
+        
+        // Else set the alpha for all of them            
+        for( Range r : colors ) {
+            r.color.a = alpha;
+        }
+    }
+ 
+    /**
+     *  Sets the colors of all ranges, overriding any color tags
+     *  that were in the original text.
+     */   
+    void setBaseColor( ColorRGBA color ) {
+        // There are times when the alpha is directly modified
+        // and the caller may have passed a constant... so we
+        // should clone it.
+        color = color.clone();
+        for( Range r : colors ) {
+            r.color = color;
+        }
+    }
     
     class Range {
         int start;
@@ -104,19 +135,23 @@ class ColorTags {
                           Integer.parseInt(colorStr.subSequence(2,4).toString(), 16) / 255f,
                           Integer.parseInt(colorStr.subSequence(4,6).toString(), 16) / 255f,
                           1);
-                if (colorStr.length() == 8) {
-                    color.a = Integer.parseInt(colorStr.subSequence(6,8).toString(), 16) / 255f;
+                if (baseAlpha != -1) {
+                    color.a = baseAlpha;
                 }
+                else if (colorStr.length() == 8) {
+                    color.a = Integer.parseInt(colorStr.subSequence(6,8).toString(), 16) / 255f;
+                } 
             } else {
                 color.set(Integer.parseInt(Character.toString(colorStr.charAt(0)), 16) / 15f,
                           Integer.parseInt(Character.toString(colorStr.charAt(1)), 16) / 15f,
                           Integer.parseInt(Character.toString(colorStr.charAt(2)), 16) / 15f,
                           1);
-                if (colorStr.length() == 4) {
+                if (baseAlpha != -1) {
+                    color.a = baseAlpha;
+                } else if (colorStr.length() == 4) {
                     color.a = Integer.parseInt(Character.toString(colorStr.charAt(3)), 16) / 15f;
                 }
             }
-            
         }
     }
 }

engine/src/core/com/jme3/font/LetterQuad.java

@@ -249,6 +249,12 @@ class LetterQuad {
         invalidate();
     }
 
+    void setAlpha(float alpha) {
+        int i = (int)(alpha * 255) & 0xFF;
+        colorInt = (colorInt & 0xffffff00) | i; 
+        invalidate();
+    }
+
     void setBitmapChar(char c) {
         BitmapCharacterSet charSet = font.getCharSet();
         BitmapCharacter bm = charSet.getCharacter(c, style);

engine/src/core/com/jme3/font/Letters.java

@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ class Letters {
     private float totalHeight;
     private ColorTags colorTags = new ColorTags();
     private ColorRGBA baseColor = null;
+    private float baseAlpha = -1;
+    private String plainText;
     
     Letters(BitmapFont font, StringBlock bound, boolean rightToLeft) {
         final String text = bound.getText();
@@ -63,7 +65,7 @@ class Letters {
 
     void setText(final String text) {
         colorTags.setText(text);
-        String plainText = colorTags.getPlainText();
+        plainText = colorTags.getPlainText();
 
         head.setNext(tail);
         tail.setPrevious(head);
@@ -338,6 +340,7 @@ class Letters {
      */
     void setColor( ColorRGBA color ) {
         baseColor = color;
+        colorTags.setBaseColor(color);
         setColor( 0, block.getText().length(), color );
     }
 
@@ -359,4 +362,46 @@ class Letters {
             cursor = cursor.getNext();
         }
     }
-}
+ 
+    float getBaseAlpha() {
+        return baseAlpha;
+    }
+    
+    void setBaseAlpha( float alpha ) {        this.baseAlpha = alpha;
+        colorTags.setBaseAlpha(alpha);
+
+        if (alpha == -1) {
+            alpha = baseColor != null ? baseColor.a : 1;
+        }
+
+        // Forward the new alpha to the letter quads
+        LetterQuad cursor = head.getNext();
+        while (!cursor.isTail()) {
+            cursor.setAlpha(alpha);
+            cursor = cursor.getNext();
+        }
+
+        // If the alpha was reset to "default", ie: -1
+        // then the color tags are potentially reset and
+        // we need to reapply them.  This has to be done
+        // second since it may override any alpha values
+        // set above... but you still need to do the above
+        // since non-color tagged text is treated differently
+        // even if part of a color tagged string.
+        if (baseAlpha == -1) {
+            LinkedList<Range> ranges = colorTags.getTags();
+            if (!ranges.isEmpty()) {
+                for (int i = 0; i < ranges.size()-1; i++) {
+                    Range start = ranges.get(i);
+                    Range end = ranges.get(i+1);
+                    setColor(start.start, end.start, start.color);
+                }
+                Range end = ranges.getLast();
+                setColor(end.start, plainText.length(), end.color);
+            }
+        }
+        
+        invalidate();
+    }
+
+}