simple-svg

Easy to use SVG library for C++ (fork)

This library is a single file header-only C++ library for creating SVG files.

Simple-SVG was written to provide an easy API to allow beginners to become more accustomed to C++ by easily creating graphics.

This project creates files that can then be viewed by a sister project File Monitor. As you make changes to your SVG document, you will automatically see an updated image in File Monitor.

This is a fork/clone of the original code here.

Build Instructions

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

This will create the demo executable simple_svg and the test executable simple_svg_test, and run the tests.

You can run the demo with:

simple_svg

to create a demo SVG file, my_svg.svg.

You can run the tests with:

ctest               # brief info on success or failure

or with

simple_svg_test     # detailed info on success or failure

to see the details of the tests.

Code modifications to satisfy cppcheck

Running cppcheck on the code:

cppcheck --enable=style --check-level=exhaustive main_1.0.0.cpp

produced errors against the cppcheck ruleset.

These errors were fixed by making explicit constructors for Dimensions, Point, Layout, Color and updating code that uses these classes.

Classes available from the library

Color - Serializable
Fill - Serializable
Stroke - Serializable
Font - Serializable
ShapeColl - Shape
Circle - Shape
Elipse - Shape
Rectangle - Shape
Line - Shape
Polygon - Shape
Path - Shape
Polyline - Shape
Text - Shape
LineChart - Shape
Document - Neither

A Document instance creates a svg file.

You can add any number of Shape instances to the document.

You use the serializable classes to set the properties of the shapes.

Example usage

See demo code in main_1.0.0.cpp for example usage.