Re: Creating pics on the web

HI,
Thanks ANdy,
Yes I will problably need to have some sort of template icons to drag, to
cut down on the articic time needed to do this thing.
I will search for some java or Flash implimentations,

Thanks
Robert

"Andy Hassall" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:56:16 +0200, "rb" <me@xxxxx> wrote:

i am developing a claims input form. part of this form, the original
paper
version, was to draw a brief picture of the accident.
Is there anyway in PHP, or other addied controld to achieve the same
result.

You could probably do it in just PHP and HTML with image maps and using
the GD
library to draw predefined shapes in response to clicks, but it'd be
pretty
slow and need loads of server round trips.

Presumably you'd have some sort of template shapes like cars and
lampposts;
the average user isn't going to be much good at drawing a picture with a
mouse.

Next level up could be using Javascript to drag and drop elements around
on
the page, which reduces server round trips but complicates it
considerably.

Then there could be Flash or Java applet implementations; I don't know
any
ready-made ones that might be suitable.

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