got it. An overlay of sorts. Very useful. Good idea.. I would need to use templateField and position it.
I'll give it a try... sqb On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com > wrote: > stephen barncard wrote: > > > On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Do we have the ability to export objects other than images in > >> that build? > >> > >> Once we can export groups we have custom greeting cards and a > >> whole lot more... > >> > > Richard, > > > > Help me out here - scratching my head... > > what grouped objects would be useful on server? > > Suppose for example you want to make customized greeting cards. So you > have a selection of pictures, and let the user enter text, which will be > embedded in the image. > > If you had to calculate the pixel positions for every letter and insert > them by monkeying with the imageData, it would be tedious, error-prone, and > probably look horrible. > > Much simpler would be to have a script that takes the input from the user, > sets the text of a field, and exports a snapshot of a group which contains > the field and the original picture, generating a composite JPEG which can > be sent back to the browser or emailed. > > There are all sorts of things we can do by combining vector objects to > create raster ouput - provided, of course, that the latest LC server now > has its image rendering sufficiently factored from the UI routines that > it's at long last possible. > > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web > ______________________________**______________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
