From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: "Sébastien Gendre" <seb@k-7.ch>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs Mailing List <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Elisp and overlay, how to show an image
Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2024 07:30:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zoon8+34TqgOEtV/@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8734omfcnc.fsf@k-7.ch>
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On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 11:12:23PM +0200, Sébastien Gendre wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to show an image on the top of a buffer, before the first
> line of text, and put a small margin at the bottom of the image.
>
>
> I have read the Overlay manual [1] and the source code of the function
> `org-display-inline-images`, but I have difficulties to understand how
> to use overlay beginning and end parameters.
>
>
> Here is the source code my first try:
>
>
> ;; Create an overlay at the first char of the buffer
> (setq ov1 (make-overlay 1 1))
I think you have to give the overlay some width. Possibly you'll
have to insert some text (one char will be enough) to slap the
overlay on.
>
> ;; Create the image from a file
> (setq my_image (create-image "~/Path/to/my/image.jpg"))
>
> ;; Put a new line, to avoid aving the image replacing the first char
> (overlay-put ov1 'before-string "\n")
I'm not quite sure the before-string is displayed when the overlay has
a 'display property.
Cheers
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t
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-06 21:12 Elisp and overlay, how to show an image Sébastien Gendre
2024-07-07 5:30 ` tomas [this message]
2024-07-07 13:12 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-07-07 15:31 ` Sébastien Gendre
2024-07-07 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-07-08 0:20 ` Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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