Label an Image with Text?

Derek Bump webmaster at dreamscapesoftware.com
Fri Dec 10 00:29:36 EST 2004


> 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?

Yes, you have to specify the exact coordinates for the snapshot to work.

> Thanks for the quick response!

No problem, glad to see someone else can't sleep either (unless your on the other side of the world).
 

Derek Bump
Dreamscape Software
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Compress Images Easily with JPEGCompress
http://www.dreamscapesoftware.com
 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Harrison" <harrison at all-auctions.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: Label an Image with Text?


> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Rick Harrison
> 
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