Problem with GD library - Gif files

[748323]

I made another "Map" program, where people can add themselves to the map, and see where everybody lives.

http://kidsspynet.com/scorpion990/map/view.php

http://kidsspynet.com/scorpion990/map/add.php

The image doesn't actually overwrite itself everytime. It creates text files containing the needed information, and when view.php is accessed, it loads a blank GIF map, and writes all of the circles/names.

The only problem is, it always writes in white, even though I tell it to write it in black. Why does this happen? Thanks!

I'm assuming this is common bug, but if its not, I'll post parts of my source code.

 

[Westbury]

Can you post parts of your code please.
Are you using imagecolorallocate() function to allocate black as a colour in the image?

If it aint broke, redesign it!

 

[748323]

This is the code I use to grab the coordinates, and the usenames.

<?

$image = imagecreatefromgif("./map.gif");
$black = imagecolorallocate($image, 255, 255, 255);

foreach(glob("./additions/*.txt") as $file) {
	$rfile = substr($file, 12, -4);
	$pieces = explode("_", $rfile);
	$handle = fopen($file, "r+");
	$name = fread($handle, filesize($file));
	$xc = $pieces[0];
	$yc = $pieces[1];
	imageellipse($image, $xc, $yc, 10, 10, $black);  
	imagestring($image, 1, $xc + 8, $yc - 3, "$name", $black);
}

Header("Content-type: image/gif");
imagegif($image);
imagedestroy($image);


?>

 

[748323]

It also creates and displays the image, obviously.

 

[748323]

Ugg.. I changed the imagecolorallocate parameters to 0's from 255's, but it still prints in white.

 

[Olavxxx]

strange..
looks right to me..

maybe it's something with the image you are making the color of?

I dont know if you could have a jpg image and try to allocate colors from that?

Olav Alexander Mjelde

http://www.volvo-power.net

Admin & Webmaster

 

[748323]

I tried recoding it, but it still wouldn't work. I will try getting the color out of another image when I get home,.