[Synotic]

OK, I am writing a quick app for personal use. It should generate a preview image (.gif) for use on a site.

This is what I am generating:



Now I have everything drawn, except the text with the black stroke. Now how can I do this? Someone told me to convert the text to a NSBezierLine and then add the stroke there? Or something... I am really a completely newbie so please be easy on me.


And secondly, I need to export the final thing to .GIF. Now In anticipiation of this, I put all my image views and text fields in 1 custom view. Now, how can I convert this custom view to a NSImage and then export it to a .GIF?

Thanks a lot, if you need the source, just ask!

[Apocalypse]

I can't really help you with the NSBezierPath issues right now (I haven't used them in some time) but I do know that you can save an image to a gif if you can get an NSBitmapImageRep from it. Using the NSBitmapImageRep you can then call:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier> - (NSData *)representationUsingType NSBitmapImageFileType)storageType properties NSDictionary *)properties
</font>[/code]

with "NSGIFFileType" as the storageType and nil (I think) for properties. You will have to look into more of what the properties dictionary needs to be since I don't have my code with me right now where I did this.

Hope that is of some help,
Jeff.

[Synotic]

Originally posted by Apocalypse:
<STRONG>I can't really help you with the NSBezierPath issues right now (I haven't used them in some time) but I do know that you can save an image to a gif if you can get an NSBitmapImageRep from it. Using the NSBitmapImageRep you can then call:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier> - (NSData *)representationUsingType NSBitmapImageFileType)storageType properties NSDictionary *)properties</font>[/code]

with "NSGIFFileType" as the storageType and nil (I think) for properties. You will have to look into more of what the properties dictionary needs to be since I don't have my code with me right now where I did this.

Hope that is of some help,
Jeff.</STRONG>

[Yes, that definitely helps... So I am looking at something like:

[[myBitmapImageRep representationUsingType:NSGIFFileType, properties:nil] writeToFile:@"/users/synotic/preview.gif" atomically:YES ]

right?

Now here's what I come up with various help...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1"face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial">code:</font><HR><pre><font size=1 face=courier>- (IBAction)generatePreview id)sender
{
NSImage *previewImage=[[NSImage alloc] init];

[imagewell2 setImage:[imagewell1 image]];
[previewdate setStringValue:[<font color = orange>@"Date: "</font> stringByAppendingString:[formdate stringValue]]];
[previewversion setStringValue:[<font color = orange>@"Version: "</font> stringByAppendingString:[formversion stringValue]]];
[previewsize setStringValue:[<font color = orange>@"Size: "</font> stringByAppendingString:[formsize stringValue]]];

[previewImage lockFocus];
[previewview drawRect:[previewview bounds]];
[previewImage unlockFocus];

[[[previewImage TIFFRepresentation] representationUsingType:NSGIFFileType properties:nil] writeToFile:<font color = orange>@"/Users/synotic/Desktop/previewimage.gif"</font> atomically:YES ];

}</font>[/code]

Now supposedly previewImage is supposed to become the custom view... but right when it tries to do the lockFocus.. I get a "Cannot cache image". Any other ideas how I can get the view to become an image?

Again, thanks!

[ 04-29-2002: Message edited by: Synotic ]