line drawing library

[Andrew Poulos]

Is there a small graphics library that I can use? All I need to do is
draw a line of a nominated thickness and colour between two specified
points and to, at some later time, "delete" the line?

I've found a few offerings but either they weren't multi-browser
compatible or they were too big for me to consider (20K instead of 2 or 3K).

Andrew Poulos

[Andrew Thompson]

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:26:05 +1000, Andrew Poulos wrote:

I've found a few offerings but either they weren't multi-browser
compatible or they were too big for me to consider (20K instead of 2 or 3K).

...excuse me? 20Kb is too much? Exactly who do you need to
feed this to? People in subs, using a hydrophone as a modem?

That sounds like an astoundingly tight size limit for this day
and age. It would not have been considered a tight limit, as
the main functionality of a page, even at the 28Kb modem stage.

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[Andrew Poulos]

Andrew Thompson wrote:

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:26:05 +1000, Andrew Poulos wrote:

I've found a few offerings but either they weren't multi-browser
compatible or they were too big for me to consider (20K instead of 2 or 3K).

..excuse me? 20Kb is too much? Exactly who do you need to
feed this to? People in subs, using a hydrophone as a modem?

That sounds like an astoundingly tight size limit for this day
and age. It would not have been considered a tight limit, as
the main functionality of a page, even at the 28Kb modem stage.

Yes you are right, it is a tight size limit. Do you know of a library I
could use?

Andrew Poulos

[Jim Ley]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:23:57 +1000, Andrew Poulos
<ap*****@hotmail.com> wrote:

Yes you are right, it is a tight size limit. Do you know of a library I
could use?

HTML is not a vector language, lines aren't lines, but nothing more
than lots of blocks, it's easy to do yourself, no library needed, any
general purpose library will be large.

Jim.

[Randy Webb]

Andrew Poulos wrote:

Andrew Thompson wrote:

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:26:05 +1000, Andrew Poulos wrote:

I've found a few offerings but either they weren't multi-browser
compatible or they were too big for me to consider (20K instead of 2
or 3K).

..excuse me? 20Kb is too much? Exactly who do you need to
feed this to? People in subs, using a hydrophone as a modem?

That sounds like an astoundingly tight size limit for this day
and age. It would not have been considered a tight limit, as the main
functionality of a page, even at the 28Kb modem stage.

Yes you are right, it is a tight size limit. Do you know of a library I
could use?

Andrew Poulos

http://members.aol.com/hikksnotathom...hit/index.html

draws a line between two clicked points. It could easily be modified to
draw a line between any two points. But the larger the "box" is, the
larger the page gets. Most of the code in that page (Its 29kb) is CSS
code, not JS code though.

It "works", as written, in Opera and IE. Wouldn't be hard to make it
work in Mozilla with a few corrections. And the entire thing could
probably be made more efficient.

The creation date on the server was April 30, 2003 for the index.html
file but the creation date for the images was in 2002, so I probably
made some minor changes in 2003. Simply click on two places in the blue
box and it will "draw" a red line between them.
--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq

[Andrew Poulos]

Randy Webb wrote:

Andrew Poulos wrote:

Andrew Thompson wrote:

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:26:05 +1000, Andrew Poulos wrote:
I've found a few offerings but either they weren't multi-browser
compatible or they were too big for me to consider (20K instead of 2
or 3K).


..excuse me? 20Kb is too much? Exactly who do you need to
feed this to? People in subs, using a hydrophone as a modem?

That sounds like an astoundingly tight size limit for this day
and age. It would not have been considered a tight limit, as the
main functionality of a page, even at the 28Kb modem stage.

Yes you are right, it is a tight size limit. Do you know of a library
I could use?

Andrew Poulos

http://members.aol.com/hikksnotathom...hit/index.html

draws a line between two clicked points. It could easily be modified to
draw a line between any two points. But the larger the "box" is, the
larger the page gets. Most of the code in that page (Its 29kb) is CSS
code, not JS code though.

It "works", as written, in Opera and IE. Wouldn't be hard to make it
work in Mozilla with a few corrections. And the entire thing could
probably be made more efficient.

The creation date on the server was April 30, 2003 for the index.html
file but the creation date for the images was in 2002, so I probably
made some minor changes in 2003. Simply click on two places in the blue
box and it will "draw" a red line between them.

Thanks, I'll have a look at it and post any changes for MZ that I make.

Andrew Poulos

[Robert]

Andrew Poulos <ap*****@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<41***********************@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>...

Is there a small graphics library that I can use? All I need to do is
draw a line of a nominated thickness and colour between two specified
points and to, at some later time, "delete" the line?

I've found a few offerings but either they weren't multi-browser
compatible or they were too big for me to consider (20K instead of 2 or 3K).

This site has examples of dynamically creating and modifing an xbm
image. I do not know much about this. I tried the second example on
the page and it worked for me.

http://developer.irt.org/script/955.htm
Robert

[Randy Webb]

Robert wrote:

Andrew Poulos <ap*****@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<41***********************@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>...

Is there a small graphics library that I can use? All I need to do is
draw a line of a nominated thickness and colour between two specified
points and to, at some later time, "delete" the line?

I've found a few offerings but either they weren't multi-browser
compatible or they were too big for me to consider (20K instead of 2 or 3K).

This site has examples of dynamically creating and modifing an xbm
image. I do not know much about this. I tried the second example on
the page and it worked for me.

http://developer.irt.org/script/955.htm

The problem with xbm images is its lack of support in non-IE browsers.

--
Randy
comp.lang.javascript FAQ - http://jibbering.com/faq

[Richard Cornford]

Andrew Poulos wrote:

Is there a small graphics library that I can use? All I
need to do is draw a line of a nominated thickness and
colour between two specified points and to, at some later
time, "delete" the line?

<snip>

You might take a look at the - wz_jsgraphics.js - library at:-

<URL: http://www.walterzorn.com >

(I forget the URL of the exact page)

- it is 15Kb, but you only need the line drawing methods and they are
good implementations of the Bresenham line drawing algorithm (might be
worth a google search as any reference to that algorithm may also
mention faster alternatives), which is very fast. If you can understand
the code it should be possible to reverse-engineer and strip the
specifics down to less than 5Kb.

Richard.