Scrolling graphics

[loning]

Hello, I need to write a graphics application, but I don't know if C Sharp or Java is sophisticated enough to let me do what I want to do.

I am developing a website. The company I work for needs to know if it is possible to have scrolling graphics. Let me give you and idea of what I am after. I need to display a graphical picture in a window.(The window Does not have to be an applet, but maybe this is the best way to do it)

I would like to be able to scroll a graphical picture in a window. For example, imagine 360 degree panoramic view of your office area. Suppose the view is stored in a graphics file format, like a gif or tif. Suppose only 1/10 of the view can be displayed in a window at any on time. But by pressing a button, you can scroll right or left to view the entire 360 degree picture of your window.

How do you do this in C sharp or Java. If someone knows of a better language or tool to do this, could you please tell me.

Thank you

 

[Skydiver]

Neither C# nor Java are inherently graphically oriented. It's what libraries and OS APIs that you have access to in those languages that dictate whether you can perform the scrolling. And if you are unwilling to use existing libraries, how much time do you have to write your own graphics library. Many C# and Java programs have been written to support scrolling of graphics.

 

[Skydiver]

A lot of modern web apps tend to do this on the browser side instead of the server side -- at least from what I've seen from real estate listings and hotel room reservation sites. For that you'll need a language that either runs natively on the browser (JavaScript) or compiles to JavaScript (e.g. TypeScript, Dart, etc.) or compiles to WebAssembly (C# code using the Blazor WebAssembly, or Dart). But any which way, you'll still need to write code that knows how to determine which section of the image file to render based on scroll position. It's something that is inherently part of any of the languages I listed. It'll be something from the libraries, frameworks, or code that you write using that language.