Image Mapper

Image Mapper is considered as a smart yet professional program for building a simple image mapping utility that may be used to mark and store points as pixel based coordinates from an image file or directly from a web page. The application is capable of capturing a collection of points, and it allows the user to name and save a point collection established using the tool into a text file.

The application could be used to do things such as to digitize an image by collecting points from key features in the image. For example, if one were to want to collect sizing and spacing information on an analog display for the purposes of defining a method for creating a digital version of that device, the application could be used in conjunction with a 1:1 scale image of the device to determine where to draw lines, add text and size text, etc. For web development, the application could be used as an aid to defining sizes and shapes of areas used in an image map.

Upon initialization of the application, the user may operate in either of two modes:

• By loading an image file directly into the application, or,
• Setting the application�s opacity to allow the user to view objects beneath the application.

In either case, once an image is loaded or made visible through the application, the user may mouse around the edges of an object to view the coordinates at any given point. If the user wants to capture the points and save them into a file, they may right click on the application to expose a context menu. The menu contains options to start and stop recording. Once start recording is selected, the application will store the coordinates for each selected point and will continue to so until the user selects stop recording. Once stop recording is selected, the application will expose a save file dialog and will capture the user defined file name and path from that dialog, this information will be used to store the entire point collection saved up until that point.