Image Tagging code/plugin maybe?

Classic Servoy
1

Hi all

My question is as follows

We currently have an image repository within a table in our DB.
I was wondering if anyone had succeeded in having the ability to annotate those images for example with some form of hotspot or ID balloon.

The end result we are trying to acheive is to be able to link a hotspot on an image to a particular record and then show the link on the image.
We also require this on *.dwg drawings if anyone is familiar with the format.

Regards

2

Hi McCourt,

You might want to take a look at the SVG bean from Patrick Talbot. In SVG images you can add callbacks to Servoy methods.
Of course your images need to be in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG i.e. XML) format.

3

I will take a look at this thanks for the prompt reply

Regards

4

ROCLASI:
Hi McCourt,

You might want to take a look at the SVG bean from Patrick Talbot. In SVG images you can add callbacks to Servoy methods.
Of course your images need to be in the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG i.e. XML) format.

Thanks for that feedback Robert - looks like Patrick’s beans are becoming required for everything (‘French-Canadian Army Knife’ of the Servoy world LOL).

As an addition to McCourts question - a bit more info.

What we really need to do is allow a user to open a current image (be it a scanned drawing, a photo in jpeg bmp or png) and add data to it such that he can have a clickable hotspot - and some data shown in a callout or balloon etc.

Unfortunately we don’t control what the image format will be. Additionally the user will have some *.dwg (or autocad alike) drawings which we will need to connect with in a similar way (though these will already have some sort of tagging and database attached - in which case we need the hotspot clickability here).

I was wondering if anyone has seen a java plugin or bean that can do some of this stuff? I guess it needs to be some method of creating a layer over an image and saving it as one!

5

I started something like that in a bean about 2 years ago but the client asking for it halted the project.

It is not so very hard to move it further but I guess the image formats will bring in certain limitations.

6

IT2Be:
I started something like that in a bean about 2 years ago but the client asking for it halted the project.

It is not so very hard to move it further but I guess the image formats will bring in certain limitations.

I know there are other development environments where this is essential so its surprising its not been done already. We did it ourselves in VB a few years ago (as well as quite a bit of GDI drawing) but seems completely missing from the Servoy arena.

Is it something you see your team going back to Marcel?

7

Yes I could see that but I would like you to create a ticket in our support system and describe what graphics formats you expect the Bean to support.
With that in my hands I can give you proper feedback.

For others that might be interested, please create a ticket as well (http://www.it2be.com/index.php/support) with what you expect from such a Bean.

8

IT2Be:
Yes I could see that but I would like you to create a ticket in our support system and describe what graphics formats you expect the Bean to support.
With that in my hands I can give you proper feedback.

Thanks Marcel - Done