RE: FN-FORUM Javascript image editing

date posted 1st April 2002 10:15

> Does anybody know of a library of functions to allow
> Javascript image editing?

> I would like to be able to draw a coloured rectangle on
> top of a downloaded JPG before it is displayed.

> We are doing this with the back-end at the moment, but
> our user load is getting so high that our servers aren't
> going to be able to cope for much longer.


Chris,

For a simple coloured rectangle, it is probably easiest to overlay a
.GIF (using DIV's, as Ian suggested).

If you need more advanced drawing tools (e.g. for drawing in 'real
time', or for different results each time), you could look at:
- VML (Vector Markup Language). This lets you draw
programmatically, but only works in IE 5.0 and above, I believe.
- Java.

Cheers,

Dave J.