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Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 17:34:33 +0000

Howdily doodilie???

I was wondering. . . . If you were to get the user to input a string and then place it on top of a picture. . .be there a way to save the picture with the text saved on top so you could view it in an image viewer??

Thanks in advance

Matt Doman Matt Doman www.matthewdoman.blogspot.com

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:12:53 -0000

If I understand your question correctly, it is very easy to do what you are asking:

1) Get the string from the user---using StringRequest()
2) Load a picture as a brush---using LoadBrush()
3) Select that brush---using SelectBrush()
4) Add the text string to the image---using TextOut()
5) Save the modified image---using SaveBrush()

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sun, 1 Aug 2010 20:32:20 +0000

hello and thank you sir!!!

That does indeed work! It doesn't seem to accept a variable for the co-ordinates though eg

TextOut(100, 200, data$)

Works as part of the loop you mentioned however

TextOut(ox$, oy$ , data$)

Produces a saved image without any text on.

Any thoughts please???

Thanks in advance

Matt Doman Matt Doman www.matthewdoman.blogspot.com

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:21:49 -0000

TextOut() should certainly work with varriables for the X, Y values.

Can you post some example code that does not work?

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Tue, 3 Aug 2010 22:27:29 +0000

Yo dude!!! Sorry been working loads!! Yep its sorted I. Was being an idiot!!!!!! Ha ha ha

Cheers for the help though-really set me on the path!!!! Matt Doman www.matthewdoman.blogspot.com