printing the string

[santhoshkumar samala]

I want to print the caharacter 's' at a given position on the screen using jsp.
I have all my pixel positions stored in data base(x coordinate,y coordinate)
how I can print the character 's' at given coordinates either in java or in html
please help me

[Nicholas Cheung]

This is not that obvious, I think.
You may first divided your pages into several "boxes" (by Table). This table's cells are partitioned by the pre-defined cooridnates.
Thus, you can dynamically assign the character to that specific location at runtime.
But of course, this is not a good choice.
Another option is you consider to using JFC components, and print the character by providing the cooridnates of the components. But this is not a good choice as well, since it becomes thick client.
Thus, you may need to re-think it
Nick.

[Don Kiddick]

create a class that extends JPanel.
Override the paintComponent method like so :

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
        super.paintComponent(g);
        g.drawString( "Test", 5, 100 );
    }

use like a normal JPanel.
D.

[Bear Bibeault]

If by "screen" you mean the monitor, then JSP/HTML and related technologies will be no help to you. If you mean the browser window, then a simple CSS rule will do what you want.
Assuming that it is the latter for the moment, I'm sending this off to the HTML/Javascript forum.

[Eric Pascarello]

Is that what you are talking about??
<div style="position:absolute;top:100;left:200">X</div>