Label an Image with Text?

[Rick Harrison]

On Dec 10, 2004, at 12:00 AM, Derek Bump wrote:
>
> You mean like taking group of text and rendering it into an image?  
> Well, there is no native way to do this, but what you can do is 
> this...
>
> 1. Put the text you want into a fld.
> 2. Take a snapshot of the fld.
> 3. figure out where in the imageData of the "main" image that you want 
> to insert the imageData from the snapshot.
>
> That method will take a VERY long time as you have to parse the main 
> image pixel by pixel.  The other method is this, but if the image is 
> larger than the stack then it will get cut off.
>
> 1. Put the text you want into a fld.
> 2. Place the fld where you want it to appear over the image.
> 3. Take a snapshot of the image.
>
>

Derek,

The latter method is probably the easiest.

I tried taking a snapshot after getting the rectangle
of the image, but it ended up getting other parts of
the stack window too.  Is this a problem of relative
vs. absolute coordinates?

Thanks for the quick response!

Rick Harrison