An Introduction to Map_Marker

These pages are intended as an introduction to "Map_Marker".

What Is Map_Marker ?

MAP_MARKER is a tool for creating clickable image maps for HTML and WWW applications. The user can load an image (currently *.xbm or *.rppm) into the package, and overlay it with a variety of shapes. These will correspond to graphical "hot-spots" and will be linked to other URL's. For example, if the image were that of a particular floor of a building, rectangles could be created covering the area of each room and a URL entered for each. Once all shapes have been created and annotated, the marked-up image can be saved in the NCSA IMAGEMAP format.

MAP_MARKER is written with John Ousterhout's tcl/tk package. If you also use the rppm option, this uses the "photo" widget from Paul Mackerras. You can find out much more about it here .

About.

Features.

An example screen.

Recommmended method of working

Browse through directories

How Do I Get MAP_MARKER ?

We intend to deposit Map_Marker in the standard tcl/tk archives, but for the first release version you can download it from: Collaborative BioMolecular Tools at Daresbury.

Download binary tar.Z file from Daresbury

Thanks

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Gudge.

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