Re: Interactive Coat of Arms Creation

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frecklefoot) wrote:
>"Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> I' looking for a software package that would allow interactive Coat of Arms
>> creation from a website, with the result saved to a file on the local
>> computer suitable for printing.
>
>Okay, I am not horribly experienced at this, but I'd look at
>Macromedia's Flash or Shockwave. Both would allow you to drag & drop a
>coat of arms. Not sure about the image saving on the client PC,
>however. Java could do all of what you need except for the saving on
>the client.

You could do it with a Java applet, then tell the user to press the 
Print Screen key and paste the resulting clipboard image into a paint 
program such as MS Paint.

Obviously that's a bit clumsy.  Applets can send data to the server, if 
I recall correctly, so maybe the server could recreate an image file 
that the user could then download.

I believe an ActiveX component can save freely, but of course for that 
reason people are less likely to install one than try an applet...

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