by mad_ady » Sat Dec 10, 2016 12:28 pm
@bunyip1: I'd like to ask you for your advice. I want to make a script to generate an image (periodically) containing some elements at various offsets. Very much like a moviesheet based on an xml (or some other datatype) template, but the data is arbitrary - (eg. weather, current time, current playing song, etc).
I know your engine already does this, but:
1. Have you encountered/can you recommend a piece of software that already does what I need?
2. If I were to reuse your work, could I:
2.1 Run non-interactivelly and
2.2 Use different tags than moviesheets, but the same general structure
2.3 Feed my data in instead of what got scraped from imdb/etc
2.4 Generate an image of arbitrary dimensions?
If #2 is a viable option can you point me to the relevant blocks of code (I'm fluent in perl)?
Thanks.
PS. Is it possible to use relative positioning in the template? I need to accomodate several resolutions (480x360, 1024x600, 1024x768, 1080p). But I guess one template won't look good...