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How to print overlays and/or animated Glyphs?

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From: Martin Horneffer
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1992 11:07
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The application I'm writing uses layout->overlay() to display several
objects on a field. The objects are animated in that they are moved
relative to each other from time to time. This works fine since I had
a look at examples/morpher.

Some of the object are tiff-rasters, others are idraw-pictures (created
with the code from examples/gob).

Yet I want that field (overlay) to be printed to a postscript-file
any time the users wants it. I looked at examples/print to implement
a function for printing. I did it (almost) the same way: using a patch
to get the original allocation from, calling print(), undraw() etc, etc.

The function does print something, but not what I would expect it to:

 - the objects seem to loose the knowledge about position, i.e. their
   positions relative to each other is not correct on the printed
   picture.
   
 - idraw pictures don't get printed at all.

What's wrong?   Can anyone help me?

Martin
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From: maho@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Horneffer)
Subject: How to print overlays and/or animated Glyphs?
Message-ID: <1992Oct27.110723.4395@dfv.rwth-aachen.de>
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