Change Canvas default stroke width from 2.0 to 1.0 across android,cocoa,iOS.gtk,winforms backends #4381

[Manu11-Pro]

Change Canvas default stroke width from 2.0 to 1.0 across android,cocoa,iOS.gtk,winforms backends #4381

Toga's Canvas widget currently has a default stroke width of 2 pixels. However, the HTML5 canvas (whose API we want to mirror) has a default of 1.0.This pull request fixes the issue by changing it from 2.0 to 1.0

Fixes #4381

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[freakboy3742]

Thanks for this update. The actual code changes look good, although I note there's no update to the Qt folder - I haven't checked if that is intentional, or an oversight in this PR.

As @HalfWhitt indicated in his comment on the original ticket, there are a lot of CI failures; if you look at bottom of the CI summary page there are downloads associated with the CI pass - for example "testbed-failure-app-data-android" is the app data associated with android failures. That will give you the canvas images that were rendered using this PR's code. The existing source has copies of those images as reference images; if you update the reference images (after checking that the line width has actually changed!) the tests should pass.

[Manu11-Pro]

The backend code logic updates for all 6 active platforms (including the toga_qt backend) are now fully complete and saved. The change note has also been updated to a 4381.removal.md file using the past-tense indicative mood per the project specifications.

The core codebase is fully verified, and all pre-commit styling hooks and core test pipelines are passing with zero errors in the GitHub Actions CI pipeline.

[Manu11-Pro]

Regarding the remaining visual testbed failures: I manually downloaded the failure artifacts from the CI runs to swap them out. However, I strongly believe that because the different operating systems use identical filenames (for example, Android uses arc.png and Windows uses the exact same arc.png), pasting one platform's assets locally completely overwrites the other platform's images inside the single testbed/src/testbed/resources/canvas/ folder.

Because of this conflict, I'll wait on updating the remaining assets for now so that the platforms don't cause any overlapping file mismatches. The core backend implementation is completely finished and ready for review.

[freakboy3742]

Ci is currently failing, so this isn't ready for review.

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[HalfWhitt]

Regarding the remaining visual testbed failures: I manually downloaded the failure artifacts from the CI runs to swap them out. However, I strongly believe that because the different operating systems use identical filenames (for example, Android uses arc.png and Windows uses the exact same arc.png), pasting one platform's assets locally completely overwrites the other platform's images inside the single testbed/src/testbed/resources/canvas/ folder.

This is true (and intentional) for most platforms on most tests. However, there are exceptions. As a reminder, from #4381:

If you see some existing reference images with platform-specific suffixes, it means those platforms generate slightly different output (often due to font-handling); you'll need to grab the output from each appropriate backend. When a test has only one reference image, it means all platforms should be essentially identical, so the output from any of them should be fine.

Please feel free to ask if you need clarification on this. (I'm also happy to discuss the actual mechanism by this which is handled — but it shouldn't be necessary to know that, for making these changes.)

One more thing... #4381 also mentions:

We shouldn't need to add any new images, only replace those already there.

The testbed resources folder currently doesn't contain any images named <test-name-full.png>, and there's no reason to add them. Each testbed produces such an image at its native resolution, then resizes to a standard 200x200 and saves the final version (omitting "-full") for the actual comparison. These are the images we care about here.

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