how to display background image?

Hi,

how can I display a background image and display @ ... say/get on
it?!?

I tried wvw_drawimage(), but it will be erased, and using it with
addmiscobject() the image is allways on top.

thanks for help,

Dirk

> how can I display a background image and display @ ... say/get on
> it?!?
>
> I tried wvw_drawimage(), but it will be erased, and using it with
> addmiscobject() the image is allways on top.

No, you cannot.

All GUI renderings are at the top of CONSOLE output.
GETs are console rendering.

I am finding a way to do so, anyhow.

Regards
Pritpal Bedi

Dear dirk:

On Aug 20, 2:18*am, dirk <dirk.bl...@t-online.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how can I display a background image and display
> @ ... say/get on it?!?
>
> I tried wvw_drawimage(), but it will be erased, and
> using it with addmiscobject() the image is allways
> on top.

This is not so much help, but "what if"...
What if you generated the HTML necessary to do this, passed control to
the browser for input, then retrieved the input?

What if you did similarly with a document, and let Word / Open Office
handle displaying the background picture and data entry, and parse the
result?

David A. Smith

(some of my postings were not delivered by reader.greatnowhere.com.
any idea why?)

Dirk,

The painted objects such as the one drawn by wvw_drawimage will always
be
painted on top of GT's text. So if you want to have background image,
you
must avoid writing any text using GT command. You must write labels
using
eg. wvw_drawlabel() (instead of @...SAY) and accepting input using
wvw_eb*
functions (instead of @...GET).

In short, displaying background image is not an easy task in gtwvw.

Of course conceptually wvw_drawlabel can be executed via @...SAY
preprocessing, and wvw_eb* can also be executed via @...GET
preprocessing.
AFAIK there's no freely available tools to get that done, even in
wvwtools.
(But I can be wrong.)

regards,
budyanto


"dirk" <dirk.blume@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:
378aa15a-912a-432d-9e1a-5d189acc75b3...oglegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> how can I display a background image and display @ ... say/get on
> it?!?
>
> I tried wvw_drawimage(), but it will be erased, and using it with
> addmiscobject() the image is allways on top.
>
> thanks for help,
>
> Dirk

(some of my postings were not delivered by reader.greatnowhere.com.
any idea why?)

Dirk,

The painted objects such as the one drawn by wvw_drawimage will always
be
painted on top of GT's text. So if you want to have background image,
you
must avoid writing any text using GT command. You must write labels
using
eg. wvw_drawlabel() (instead of @...SAY) and accepting input using
wvw_eb*
functions (instead of @...GET).

In short, displaying background image is not an easy task in gtwvw.

Of course conceptually wvw_drawlabel can be executed via @...SAY
preprocessing, and wvw_eb* can also be executed via @...GET
preprocessing.
AFAIK there's no freely available tools to get that done, even in
wvwtools.
(But I can be wrong.)

regards,
budyanto


"dirk" <dirk.blume@t-online.de> wrote in message
news:
378aa15a-912a-432d-9e1a-5d189acc75b3...oglegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> how can I display a background image and display @ ... say/get on
> it?!?
>
> I tried wvw_drawimage(), but it will be erased, and using it with
> addmiscobject() the image is allways on top.
>
> thanks for help,
>
> Dirk

grrrrr.... i reposted it via google and now i had it posted twice...
sorry for the noise