Re: [svg-developers] Image pixel color retrieval

2004-12-21 Thread Philippe Lhoste
Ronan Oger wrote: You can do the following: get the raster-image-coordinate x and y values, send to a server, use a serverside script to retrieve the colour of the pixel at that position, and retrieve using getURL. You could easily do this with Perl and the GD module. Another way to do

Re: [svg-developers] Image pixel color retrieval

2004-12-21 Thread Ice Wizz
Thanks! I'll try both ideeas. (If you already know about a similar perl or script code example, please send me a link) What I want to do is a query tool for a web map. On a raster image the informations are color-coded. So by getting the color for a specific point in that image, I am able

[svg-developers] Image pixel color retrieval

2004-12-20 Thread Ionut Iosifescu
Hello, I need to read a pixel color from a raster image (inside a script, when an user makes a mouse click on an image pixel) that I am showing in SVG (I can have the mouse coordinates). I already know that this is impossible with ECMA script (or at least I think so). Has someone an ideea

Re: [svg-developers] Image pixel color retrieval

2004-12-20 Thread Ronan Oger
SVG has no concept of pixels. Pixels are raster, SVG is vector based. You need to use DOM methods to find out the color of the object under the mouse, and this can be tricky since a red circle may have a transparent rectangle on top of it... Try this search on Google:

Re: [svg-developers] Image pixel color retrieval

2004-12-20 Thread André M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, no, this doesn't work. you are not the first to ask. btw, raster images get referenced by xlink:href, thus they are external ressources and they are of a different type than svg is. a lot of hurdles... andré -- ___ andre m.

Re: [svg-developers] Image pixel color retrieval

2004-12-20 Thread Ice Wizz
Hi, Thanks! Do you know how others have done this? In other way? With java? Ionut André M. Winter - Carto.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, no, this doesn't work. you are not the first to ask. btw, raster images get referenced by xlink:href, thus they are external ressources and they are