how do you print on top of images?

I have been trying to print words on top of pictures that I have loaded with the paint utils api.

this is what I have tried

paintutils.drawImage(paintutils.loadImage("test"),1,1)
print("hello")

this is the out come

http://imgur.com/IwsB19L
(the word hello is printed beneath the picture not where i want it to be)

I was wondering why the text doesn't print over top at the very top of the screen as well as how can I make the text do that.

Use term.setCursorPos before calling print to set the cursor position to 1 character above the image.

local imageX, imageY = 5, 5
term.setCursorPos(imageX, imageY - 1)
print("hello")
paintutils.drawImage(paintutils.loadImage("test"), imageX, imageY)

The reason why it doesn't print at the top is because the call to paintutils changes the cursor position and does not reset it.

That is to say, paintutils doesn't "draw images" so much as it writes space characters to the screen whilst changing the text background colour as it goes.

Yevano, on 03 May 2014 - 10:02 PM said:

Use term.setCursorPos before calling print to set the cursor position to 1 character above the image.

local imageX, imageY = 5, 5
term.setCursorPos(imageX, imageY - 1)
print("hello")
paintutils.drawImage(paintutils.loadImage("test"), imageX, imageY)

The reason why it doesn't print at the top is because the call to paintutils changes the cursor position and does not reset it.

thanks! also how do I know which one will be in front (the picture or the text) and how would you change which is in the front/back)

Which ever is written last will be in front, as the screen is only one layer.

Though if you check out term.setBackgroundColor() in the term API, you can probably work out how to get the effect you want anyway.