[magick-users] Re: WWW Mail (Prob Scripting Rnd Border Ex)

[Anthony Thyssen]

Tom Cunningham on  wrote...
| Tom Cunningham <thomas.tmc at gmail.com> sent the following
| comment to "anthony", about "Prob Scripting Rnd Border Ex".
| You are reading it:-
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| I'm having trouble scripting the rounded border example. 
| I'm pretty sure it's in the syntax of the arguments. No error is given
| upon running and no image is created. 
| Could you tell me where the error is?
| 
| Using IM 6.2.9 Q8
| Here is my VBScript code:
| 
|       img_W1 = img_Info(0) - 2
|       img_H1 = img_Info(1) - 2      
|       img_N1 = Int((img_Info(0) + img_Info(1)) / 15)      
|       img_Str = img_W1 & "," & img_H1 & " " & img_N1 & "," img_N1
| 
|       oImg.Convert load_Trans,"-border","2","-format", "roundrectangle 1,1 " & img_Str, _
|                               dir_Home & "images\slide\rounded_corner.mvg" 
|       
|       oImg.Convert load_Trans,"-border","2","-matte","-channel","RGBA","-threshold","-1", _
|                               "-background","none","-fill","none","-stroke","black","-strokewidth","3", _
|                               "-draw",dir_Home & "images\slide\rounded_corner.mvg",dir_Home & "images\slide\rounded_corner_overlay.png"
|                               
|       oImg.Convert load_Trans,"-border","2","-matte","-channel","RGBA","-threshold","-1", _
|                               "-background","none","-fill","white","-stroke","black","-strokewidth","1", _
|                               "-draw",dir_Home & "images\slide\rounded_corner.mvg",dir_Home & "images\slide\rounded_corner_mask.png"
|                               
|       oImg.Convert load_Trans,"-matte","-bordercolor","none","-border","2", _
|                               dir_Home & "images\slide\rounded_corner_mask.png","-compose","DstIn","-composite", _
|                               dir_Home & "images\slide\rounded_corner_overlay.png","-compose","Over","-composite" _ 
|                               "-depth","8","-quality","95",load_Image
| 
| Any help you can give is very much appreciated.

Looks like the NEW rounded border example.

  http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/thumbnails/#rounded

The other method using images is also demonstrated by the later 'Fancy
border' example
  http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/thumbnails/#fancy

All methods used simular techniques. one image to overlay new parts to
image, another to erase other parts of the image.

Hmmm.. Prehaps you don't realise that a "mvg" file is just a text file
of draw commands.  See MVG files
  http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graphics/imagick6/draw/#mvg

The example only uses it as it uses IM to generate the draw command
using format.  As you are not using IM to do the calculations you do NOT
need to use a MVG file.  Just replace the "@rounded_corner.mvg" with the
roundrectangle draw command directly!!!!

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