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New Couple of questions
#1 Information on the HTML Image mapping in general. Using a straight up JPG file.
TIF images are not standard for the browser, so GIF or JPG are the way to go. If the images are simple, then just use GIF. If they're pretty elaborate, use JPG.

#2 Information on Leadtools image mapping so the events can be trapped on a TIF image to check the area to see if it is a click to an employee area.
Not sure what you mean by "click to an employee area". Do you mean that the user that is viewing the image on the browser can click on the image and have some info pop up (e.g. who's office, their name, title, etc...). Not familiar with the tool, so I'm not of much help in any case.

#3 How to create a way to check the X and Y coordinates of each office/cube so that a Data Entry clerk can enter it easily without getting confused.
The end result should be a table that has the squared coordinates for the various parts of the images. This would then be pushed into the html as coordinates for the javascript mouse over and/or click events.

As for how to chop up the image for the purpose of data entry, I'm not sure if there's any tools. Perhaps some VB program that does the chore is in order?
New Re: Couple of questions
JPG sounds like the way to go.

An employee area, being a cubical or office. Some square or rectangle area of the office map that when clicked on gives the info for the employee that works there.

Writing the data entry program in VB would be best. We could display the map, and then set the points and have the data entry person click on a square, or define one by themselves with two clicks or something.

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New Just make sure...
...that you keep the information about the physical aspects of the office (within the images) in a seperate table from the data about who currently occupies that space. The physical characteristics are unlikely to change - at least not very often, but the assignment of those offices may have a constant churn.

Along these lines, I'm not sure that you really need to get data entry involved with defining the graphical coordinates. In my estimation, this is a one shot deal that might be better handled as part of the software engineering process. That is, if there is a finite and fixed number of offices to be digitized, then you could have a less friendly way to enter the raw coordinates.

OTOH, the assignment of the personnel to those defined office spaces needs a nice friendly interface because the software staff will want to turn it loose at some point. But since you already have the office space digitized and categorized, all you need in your html front end is an additional mechanism wherein someone can not only view who is currently assigned the space, but also can modify that information (maybe with some security scheme to limit who is allowed modify access).

Of course, if this is a turnkey system where the office space is constantly changing, you probably don't want to hand key the coordinates. Still, you probably want to have a seperate front end for the two tasks, with the coordinate input maybe in a standalone executable and the assignment as part of the normal html interface.

Anyhow, just a thought.
     HTML image maps - (orion) - (11)
         What ideas are you looking for exactly? - (tseliot) - (10)
             Ideas I am looking for - (orion) - (9)
                 Couple of questions - (ChrisR) - (2)
                     Re: Couple of questions - (orion) - (1)
                         Just make sure... - (ChrisR)
                 Idea for #3 - (tseliot) - (5)
                     Thanks, the more "user oriented" the better - (orion)
                     Not worth the fuss IMO - (tablizer) - (3)
                         "I don't know how to do it, but here is ..." - (Arkadiy) - (2)
                             Standard practice - (orion)
                             What gave you that interpretation? -NT - (tablizer)

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