[sailwave] Getting graphics (burgees) to show up on the web

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Hi Nick,

I take it that you are sending your friend a copy of the HTML file. If
so the fact that he is not seeing the graphics is to be expected All HTML files do not store a copy of graphic images within them, they
reference the location of the image file and download it from the same
web server that the HTML file is coming from or another web server;
this is the HTML way of doing things. This is not something that Colin
has any control over.
Sailwave stores the full path to graphic images in the .BLW file by
default, so if you you’re graphic file myburgee.gif then the file
location stored is C:Program Files\Sailwave\myburgee.gif if you have
put this file in the Sailwave folder or another example would be
C:\Documents and Settings\huw\My Documents\My Pictures if I was using
an image from My Pictures folder.
The trick is to have the graphics file in the same folder as the .BLW
file& an HTML file and in the field in Sailwave where the name of
the burgee file is put either make sure you have just the name of the
file with no directory path or use .\myburgee.gif string, that is a
dot>period followed by backslash followed by filename this will then
work when the results HTML file is uploaded to a web server as well or
you send a copy of a .BLW file to some one else. In the case of you
sending an email to your friend you need to send a copy of the burgee
image files as well and they will need to save both attachments to the
same folder.
An alternative which I use is to print to a PDF file from my browser
using free PDF printer driver, if you scroll down in Sailwave when
publishing to the bottom of the list of publishing locations there is a
PDF option and there are instructions for obtaining a PDF printer
driver. There are other free printer drivers available as well.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards,
Huw
Nick Cox wrote:

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:frowning:

Hi All,

I’m having difficulty getting the graphics for the last event I scored
with Sailwave to display the burgees on any computer other than my own.
I e-mailed a friend a copy of the final results and the graphics just
show up as a red ‘x’ on their machine. Do I have to somehow embed the
graphic file into the Sailwave before I upload it or e-mail it?? Any
suggestions would be appreciated.

Cheers,

Nick Cox

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Hi Huw,

Thanks for the reply. So, my situation is that I'm the scorer of the event and have Sailwave on my computer. My friend is the webmaster of the organising groups website. As I don't have all the info. yet to get Sailwave to upload the results directly, I have to go the e-mail route with the results. I take it from your reply that the other person would need to have Sailwave and the graphics on their computer for them to be able to see the images? Right?

Cheers,

Nick

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Nick,

It isn’t necessary for the other side to have the Sailwave programme.

You just email the results file (in html format) and the graphics. Your friend will then be able to view the results (with pictures) with a browser such as Firefox or Win IE.

Thats only for the first time. Once the graphics are on his computer, subsequent results files will pick up those pictures.

regards,
Malcolm Osborne
Sedgefield, South Africa

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----- Original Message -----

From:
Nick Cox

To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:13 PM

Subject: [sailwave] Re: Getting graphics (burgees) to show up on the web

Hi Huw,

Thanks for the reply. So, my situation is that I’m the scorer of the event and have Sailwave on my computer. My friend is the webmaster of the organising groups website. As I don’t have all the info. yet to get Sailwave to upload the results directly, I have to go the e-mail route with the results. I take it from your reply that the other person would need to have Sailwave and the graphics on their computer for them to be able to see the images? Right?

Cheers,

Nick

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Finally, something I understand.

Nic's right that graphics images are not an intrinsic part of a HTML (web) file; the HTML file contains only a command to display the image and the reference to its location (path). the command looks something like this: <img src="burgee.gif">. (Here, the image is in the same folder as the HTML file; height & width specs deleted for simplicity.)

When the file goes from your computer to your friend's to the website server, the graphics file doesn't go with it. Nor, would the path from the HTML file to the graphic necessarily be the same on the website as on your 'puter. This leaves your HTML file without a graphic to display or unable to find it.

Presumably, it's a club website and the manager has put all the images in a sub-folder named "/images", possibly further sub-divided. The manager may not appreciate you cluttering up his/her organization scheme with multiple copies of the club burgee. I'd suggest letting the web person edit the image command to the path standard for the site. At minimum, you both need to have a conversation about how to handle the question.
-rt_/)

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Exactly right. We put all our images on the
website and just point at them from various sources, including Sailwave

  • then ,as long as you are connected to the internet, the HTML is then
    essentially portable. Alternatively if one wants real portability just
    print to a PDF ‘printer’ (I use PrimoPDF - free) which will embed the
    images; PDF standing for Portable Document Format…

I’ve spent quote a few hours investigating embedding images in HTML but
the inadequacy of Microsoft’s IE keeps me from doing it at present.
IE8 was supposed to fix it but has not from my experiments.

CJ

fairwindrt wrote:

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Just one point I didn’t test.

Flags don’t have all the same dimensions. SUI is a square, BEL is 7/6 ratio, several are 3/2 (AUT, FRA, RUS,…), others are 2/1 (GBR, CAN, LAT,…), GER 1s 5/3, I’be also found 7/5 (POL).

In most of the results displayed I find a ratio 3/2 for all, as a Belgian, I don’t find it nice. Further, if constant height is applied, then I am jealous as GBR is much larger than BEL, twice the area of SUI…

If width is a constant, then SUI seems 2 times larger than CAN.

For personal applications, I started from the standard flags, constant height 30 pixels from Money mini-flags (33 pixels for USA), the ratio is saved in a database, and they are displayed as constant area width=(area*ratio)^0.5 and height=(area/ratio)^0.5. File names are given using the 3 letter-code of the country, easy to automate display (takes the first 3 characters of sail number, adds ‘.gif’)

See example on http://www.microclass.org/results/main.html or http://www.microclass.org/nations.html, in this last page, flag area is reduced in second table, then further reduced in third table. Ooops, forgotten to add Moldova, coming soon.

If found convenient, you should add this function in SW…

Phil

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----- Original Message -----

From:
Colin Jenkins

To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:16 AM

Subject: Re: [sailwave] Re: Getting graphics (burgees) to show up on the web

Exactly right. We put all our images on the website and just point at them from various sources, including Sailwave - then ,as long as you are connected to the internet, the HTML is then essentially portable. Alternatively if one wants real portability just print to a PDF ‘printer’ (I use PrimoPDF - free) which will embed the images; PDF standing for Portable Document Format…

I’ve spent quote a few hours investigating embedding images in HTML but the inadequacy of Microsoft’s IE keeps me from doing it at present. IE8 was supposed to fix it but has not from my experiments.

CJ

fairwindrt wrote:


Finally, something I understand. Nic's right that graphics images are not an intrinsic part of a HTML (web) file; the HTML file contains only a command to display the image and the reference to its location (path). the command looks something like this: <img src="burgee.gif">. (Here, the image is in the same folder as the HTML file; height & width specs deleted for simplicity.) When the file goes from your computer to your friend's to the website server, the graphics file doesn't go with it. Nor, would the path from the HTML file to the graphic necessarily be the same on the website as on your 'puter. This leaves your HTML file without a graphic to display or unable to find it. Presumably, it's a club website and the manager has put all the images in a sub-folder named "/images", possibly further sub-divided. The manager may not appreciate you cluttering up his/her organization scheme with multiple copies of the club burgee. I'd suggest letting the web person edit the image command to the path standard for the site. At minimum, you both need to have a conversation about how to handle the question.
-rt_/)
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