[Image-SIG] Creating a Transparent Image and Placing it Over Another Image

Laura & Edward Cannon cannon.el at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 21:10:50 CEST 2009


I do this using a callback from Tkinter, (and do the calculations in
PIL) but you could get the callbacks from any windowing system you
cared to use.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Wayne Watson
<sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Are you doing this purely with PIL or some toolkit? I would use a callback
> that each time the mouse moves you move the image.
>
> What about rubber lines, stretching, for an to resize an object like a box?
>
> Laura & Edward Cannon wrote:
>>
>> I have had great success "moving" items across images by keeping a
>> copy of the original background, pasting into a copy, and updating the
>> copy as needed. This may not be perfectly elegant, but it works well
>> and is quite fast on modern hardware.
>> ERC
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:00 AM, Wayne Watson
>> <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>
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