embedding graphics in text?

Joel Rees joel at alpsgiken.gr.jp
Wed Sep 10 20:18:00 EDT 2003


Klaus, before I forget, thanks. I'll try this as soon as I get done with
this other project I'm running overtime on.

> Konichi-wa Rees-san,
> (its noon here in germany ;-)
> 
> > Newbie sort of question, but I'm a newb, so here goes --
> >
> > Converting a hypercard stack, have a graphics layover and space in the
> > text where images in the layover are supposed to end up, but font
> > differences and so forth and the images are not where they should be,
> > relative to the text.
> >
> > So I would like to be able to cut the images out of the layover and
> > embed them into the text, the way it can be done with html. Does
> > revolution support such a thing?
> 
> HTNL is one solution, but you are probably looking for "imagesource"
> 
> > (Having trouble thinking of where to look this up in the docs.)
> 
> Setting the "imagesource" of a char in a field, this char will be 
> replaced with that image...
> 
> Examples:
> 
> set the imagesource of char 1 of fld 1 to 1003  ## the ID of an image
> 
> set the imagesource of char 1 of fld 1 to "hotpix"  ### name of an image
> 
> set the imagesource of char 1 of fld 1 to "binfile:image.jpg" ## path 
> to an imagefile
> 
> set the imagesource of char 1 of fld 1 to 
> "http://www.myserver.com/a_folder/an_image.gif"
> 
> Hope that helps...
> 
> Sayonara
> 
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> www.major-k.de
> 

-- 
Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group
Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan
http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp
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