Avatar Like Rounded Text with Background

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We’ve just installed Avinit in the Server Module environment. So you can now do this:

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Here’s the client code:

  def text_box_1_pressed_enter(self, **event_args):
    """This method is called when the user presses Enter in this text box"""
    self.image_1.source = anvil.server.call('get_avatar', self.text_box_1.text)

And here’s the server code:

@anvil.server.callable
def get_avatar(name):
  return avinit.get_avatar_data_url(name)

That returns a data url: a URL that contains the data it refers to.

If you want to use a Media object instead, you can do this:

@anvil.server.callable
def get_avatar_as_media_obj(name):
  return anvil.BlobMedia(
    content_type='image/svg+xml',
    content=avinit.get_svg_avatar(name),
    name='my_avatar'
  )

https://anvil.works/build#clone:5ROG36YNERKEDW52=GG75TOEMJ4FLMABAL2ZRQ2Q4

(If you want to do this all on the client side instead, there’s a JavaScript library called initial.js, you could install it in Native Libraries)

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