David Bullock wrote:
> [I just want to take a 'template shape' from an SVG file,
> copy it a few times, translate each one, and print it out.
> If there's a better way to do this than GVT, I'd love to
> hear your suggestions. ]
I don't know if this is any better or worse, but I acomplish this
same idea (I think) by editing the SVG DOM...
In the SVG file are the icons which are just invisible nodes defined
inside the <defs> tag and having "id" attributes with known values.
Then, using the DOM API, I add append a new <use> to the top level
<svg> tag like this:
SVGElement topNode = ... // find the top <svg> node
...
String iconId = ... // id of the icon you want to display
SVGElement use = (SVGElement)svg.createElementNS(
SVGDOMImplementation.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI, "use");
use.setAttributeNS(XPATH_NAMESPACE_URI, "href", "#" + iconId);
use.setAttribute("visibility", "visible");
use.setAttribute("x", "" + x);
use.setAttribute("y", "" + y);
topNode.appendChild(use);
You must do this within this update thread (I think).
-Archie
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