I took a quick look at ImageMagick and it seemed to be more of an image processing program and not something I could incorporate into my application. My application is to be used in a firehouse where we can input the box number of the incident we are responding to. (Box # is a number assigned to a location or cross street address in our response area.)
The application displays a bitmap (approx: 1000x800) of our response area but due to resolution restrictions of the monitor, street names and details are hard to read. When the box # is input the cross street and directions are displayed and the map zooms and pans to the box location. Its up and running and it is useful but I was hoping to have a smoother zoom. The computer at the firehouse is an old PII so I set it to zoom in two or three steps but very jerky of course. Even on a P4 with 1.8mhz its a lot better but still not the smooth fluid motion I'm looking for...smooth like the scroll effect in the Rebol settings preferences program. -Alan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of rebOldes Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:19 AM To: Alan Subject: [REBOL] Re: Bitmap scrolling and rebcode?? if you want to make a map application, you should not use one image but tiles and display just the image tiles, which are visible. That's the way, how every known map apps (including google maps) work. for making tiles, scaling and other image manipulations you can use ImageMagick - http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php (you can call if from Rebol if you like:-) oldes A> I'm looking to scale and translate a jpg of a map at 950x800 resolution. I'm A> using the draw function but it seems a little jerky. Would rebcode speed it A> up? Or are there any other methods? A> Or, I would really like to use map data directly to draw my own maps. Anyone A> know how to make use of the geographic data that is available on line? A> This is the greatness of REBOL... A> I'm doing programming projects that I (a beginner programmer) would never be A> able to do with any other language; real world and practical programs... A> -Alan -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject. -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
