Display text and pictures in Python S60

[jinxy]

Hello! i want to display both text and pictures in pys60, and here's how i do it:

def handle_redraw(rect):
global img
img.blit(scanp, target = (0,0), source = (0,0),scale = 0 )
data = appuifw.Text()
img.blit(data, target = (210,100), source = (0,0),scale = 0 )
canvas.blit(img)

so i try to assign to img both picture ant text and than blit it to canvas. Obvious it doesn't work. The question is: how should i do it? Thanks!

[bogdan.galiceanu]

I don't entirely understand your approach so I won't try to see what's wrong with it, but I can give you and alternative method (though it may not be exactly what you want):

bgimage=Image.open("C:\\Python\\myimage.jpg")

bgimage.text((210,100), u"Text goes here", font='normal')

def handle_redraw(rect):canvas.blit(bgimage)
canvas=appuifw.Canvas(event_callback=None, redraw_callback=handle_redraw)
appuifw.app.body=canvas

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[neil1811]

Hi bogdan,

i display image similar to how you describe there.

But then when my app still runs i cannot get rid of the canvas?it blocks whatever i have printing to the console.
how would i get back to normal after displaying the image?

Any help would be great. Thank you

EDIT: what i mean by this is.. i will enter some details tha cause am inage to display. But i want to be able to move along with the app. But at the moment the image blocks my view of the console and i cant see anything.

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Hi bogdan,

i display image similar to how you describe there.

But then when my app still runs i cannot get rid of the canvas?it blocks whatever i have printing to the console.
how would i get back to normal after displaying the image?

Any help would be great. Thank you

EDIT: what i mean by this is.. i will enter some details tha cause am inage to display. But i want to be able to move along with the app. But at the moment the image blocks my view of the console and i cant see anything.

Hello neil,

I'm not entirely sure I understand your question, but from what I do understand you want to display an image and then stop displaying it and switch back to the console.

Here's how I would do it:

#To show what I mean, I'll use a menu to trigger showing the image, and showing the console, respectively

def show_image():
    bgimage=Image.open("C:\\Python\\myimage.jpg")
    
    def handle_redraw(rect):canvas.blit(bgimage)
    canvas=appuifw.Canvas(event_callback=None, redraw_callback=handle_redraw)
    appuifw.app.body=canvas

def stop_showing_image():appuifw.app.body=appuifw.Text()
    
appuifw.app.menu=[(u"Show the image", show_image), (u"Next step", stop_showing_image)]

I'm sorry if this is not what you are looking for, but it's the only solution I can think of.

[neil1811]

wow, yes thats exactly what i was looking for!

my app is starting to come along.
Thank you for your help. and such a quick response!

[ComplexT]

it seems i not the only one who having trouble with this part of pys60.. can anyone provide me with any information on this.

I have my image displaying fine.. but i want to print out details about something underneath.
so what i basically want is

say this is my screen...
====================================

***********My Image Here**********
____________________________________


Outputted text that may come from my
DB down in this half etc


====================================

so i suppose i want half a canvas half text?
is there a way to have that image there all the time and just work with the bottom half.

ANY HELP! Thank you in advance

[ComplexT]

So i dont want to draw on the image i have. i want the image there as a sort of a header to all my pages.

Hope i have explained it ok! i can add text to the photo as in example below but i need sort of independant picture and text

thank you again

[bogdan.galiceanu]

So i dont want to draw on the image i have. i want the image there as a sort of a header to all my pages.

Hope i have explained it ok! i can add text to the photo as in example below but i need sort of independant picture and text

thank you again

I think there is a way:

import TopWindow, e32, appuifw
from graphics import *

 
bgimage=Image.open("C:\\Python\\myimage.jpg")

window=TopWindow.TopWindow()

window.add_image(bgimage, (0,0,240,120)) #These are the coordinates I used, you may use others instead
window.size=(240, 120) #These give the size of the displayed image
window.corner_type='square'
window.position = (0,0)  #The "window"'s position

def quit():
	window.hide()
	app_lock.signal()
 
app_lock=e32.Ao_lock()
window.show()
 
appuifw.app.exit_key_handler=quit
app_lock.wait()

I hope that helps

[qcalv]

Hey!
One question with that, how is it possible to display the console of python, but to have still the menu? I cant get to do this, cause as soon as i specify a menu, i have to put a screen to "normal" or whatever, and then the console is hided? My problem is that i use the canvas to print text, so i cant use top window for that, and i want to switch between console, and canvas, and so on but keeping my menu all along?!
cheers,

qcalv

[shubhendra]

Hi qcalv,
Seeing python console as well as menu can be done, i have tried for first time when script runs.

[qcalv]

Yeah i guess its not impossible but how?

Shall i do that?

appuifw.app.title=u"MyTitle"
appuifw.app.menu=[\
(u"Quit",quit),\
(u"Phone connection",connect()),\
(u"Debug",debug)]

and then it should work? What should i defined for appuifw.body?

I forgot to give some precision, at the beginning, i create a new canvas, and use some rectangles, text etc... on it, and use the redraw callback to update this canvas, but after with the Debug function i want to come back to my initial state, where only the console and a menu coexist, and it doesnt work, for exemple the title always stays set up...

Thanks

[qcalv]

Ok I found out by myself, at the beginning if you print the appuifw.app.body, it gives you appuifw.Text() with some adress in the memory (where the console is saved i assume), in order to get back the console on the screen, you have to save the variable appuifw.app.body at the beginning, and then when needed restore it, i didnt find any other way to get back my console after setting up a canvas and drawing on it... hope that helps some folks!!
have fun with python!!
qcalv