I don't how much I can help you, but you said the magic words here in SVG-land, so that many folks may try to assist you: "I'm new to SVG and need some help"
Just a thought.. SVG elements are GIF-friendly. Is there a way you can maintain the background JPG canvas and overlay the SVG elements that has been converted to GIF? Francis --- In [email protected], "cmragsdale1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm new to SVG and need some help. > > What I need to do is allow users to draw shapes on a jpg image (in this > case a map). This is all set up and working very nicely. > > In order to get the jpg to serve as a canvas, it appears that the jpg > has to be part of the SVG document. I do,however, need to be able to > dynamically change the URL of the image as users make changes and > request alterations to the map -- the mapping program generates new > jpg's when the user modfies the map. > > I've tried everything that I can think of and the new image is never > displayed. I recall reading somewhere that image display is not > actually part of the DOM and am concerned that I may have to do > something wierd to make this work (I've considered copying the jpgs to > the user's machine and renaming them to the name of the original image - > - which would be horrible, but might work; or trying to dynamically add > a new image and remove the old one -- I don't know if that works like > adding new shapes or not). > > Does anyone know how to make this work. I was really excited to get > this far and thought that the rest would be a breeze, and now . . . > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back! http://us.click.yahoo.com/u8TY5A/tzNLAA/yQLSAA/1U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
