% File src/library/grid/man/grid.show.layout.Rd
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% Copyright 1995-2007 R Core Development Team
% Distributed under GPL 2 or later

\name{grid.show.layout}
\alias{grid.show.layout}
\title{Draw a Diagram of a Grid Layout}
\description{
  This function uses Grid graphics to draw a diagram of a
  Grid layout.
}
\usage{
grid.show.layout(l, newpage=TRUE, bg = "light grey",
             cell.border = "blue", cell.fill = "light blue",
             cell.label = TRUE, label.col = "blue",
             unit.col = "red", vp = NULL) 
}
\arguments{
  \item{l}{A Grid layout object.}
  \item{newpage}{A logical value indicating whether to move on
    to a new page before drawing the diagram.}
  \item{bg}{The colour used for the background.}
  \item{cell.border}{The colour used to draw the borders of the cells
    in the layout.}
  \item{cell.fill}{The colour used to fill the cells in the layout.}
  \item{cell.label}{A logical indicating whether the layout cells
    should be labelled.}
  \item{label.col}{The colour used for layout cell labels.}
  \item{unit.col}{The colour used for labelling the widths/heights of
    columns/rows.}
  \item{vp}{A Grid viewport object (or NULL).}
}
\details{
  A viewport is created within \code{vp} to provide a margin for
  annotation, and the layout is drawn within that new viewport.
  The margin is filled with light grey, the new viewport is filled
  with white and framed with a black border, and the layout regions
  are filled with light blue and framed with a blue border.
  The diagram is annotated with the widths and heights (including units)
  of the columns and rows of the layout using red text. (All colours
  are defaults and may be customised via function arguments.)
}
\value{
  None.
}
\author{Paul Murrell}
\seealso{
  \link{Grid},
  \code{\link{viewport}},
  \code{\link{grid.layout}}
}

\examples{
## Diagram of a simple layout 
grid.show.layout(grid.layout(4,2,
                     heights=unit(rep(1, 4),
                                  c("lines", "lines", "lines", "null")),
                     widths=unit(c(1, 1), "inches")))
}
\keyword{dplot}
