creating image automatically

[Guest]

What I need to do is create a genetic linkage map as an image, this info will be in a database table. So I'm wondering if there is a way to take info from a db and use it to create an image using coldfusion. The image needs to have clearly defined clickable regions on it that link preferably to pop up windows, or to a new page. These regions would also be in the db. Is there a way to do this?

[Kapitaine]

Hi,

Not sure exactly. But I would assume this would require some kind of form (to input what links should go where, how wide and high the image should be, the image coordinates, a unique ID for the image etc etc). Then you'd probably pass these variables to some kind of image processing script that might utilise the CFIMAGE tag and various image functions in CF.

My guess would require CF8 of course but there are some image processing CFC's and scripts for earlier versions of CF.

Good luck!
Mikey.