On May 7, 2:19 am, Martin Trautmann <t-...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> FMP offers an option to output text as SVG, but I do not see that many
> graphing capabilites. Maybe there's a certain set of custom functions
> anywhere which does draw pixels, lines, circles at certain locations.
> FMP should be able to im****t full libraries of custom functions, leaving
> them in groups of their own, such as "svg", as there is "text" or
> "time" now.
Yeah, it would be wonderful if FM had a full on set of graphics
functions, and could dynamiclly draw vector graphics right on a
layout. It can't. However the web browser control can be used to get
some of that functionality.
> Do you know demos, where FMP built those graphics?
Built from data? Or built from scratch?
FMP is not a paint program. Its the last thing I would use to try and
draw a tiger.
But If I had the data for a tiger (not an SVG file, just the data, the
curve parameters, the color data, polygon boundaries, etc. Then it
would be a relatively simple matter to write a script to generate the
SVG or VML and put it in a text field (we've been able to do THAT
since Filemaker 2.0).
But only recently, with FM9 do we have a way of rendering the picture
and taking a look at it within filemaker.
In your case your image had a couple polygons and a bunch of colored
points. I assume you have all the coordinate data in FM for the
polygon boundary and the point colors and coordinates as you would
need this to generate the ascii art on the fly.
So generating an SVG file from it would be a relative breeze, about
the same effort as your existing ascii art.
-Dave
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