Hi Quentin, By the way,if you want to create a svg icon for your custom actor, I recommend a lightweight svg tool Inkscape. It's a good tool.
http://www.inkscape.org/ Jim Hsu 2008/8/20 <kepler-users-request at ecoinformatics.org>: > Send Kepler-users mailing list submissions to > kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > kepler-users-request at ecoinformatics.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kepler-users-owner at ecoinformatics.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Kepler-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Personal actor's icon... (Quentin BEY) > 2. Personal actor's icon... (Quentin BEY) > 3. Re: Personal actor's icon... (Chad Berkley) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:39 +0200 > From: Quentin BEY <quentin.bey at onera.fr> > Subject: [kepler-users] Personal actor's icon... > To: kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org > Message-ID: <1219147659.5970.10.camel at talence> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi all, > > I'm facing a problem I can't solve. For all actors I create, I can't > change the default icon they have (the green rectangular icon). I > inserted the lines: > > //---------------------------------------------------------- > // Icon is a stop sign. > _attachText("_iconDescription", "<svg>\n" > + "<polygon points=\"-8,-19 8,-19 19,-8 19,8 8,19 " > + "-8,19 -19,8 -19,-8\" " > + "style=\"fill:red\"/>\n" > + "<text x=\"-15\" y=\"4\"" > + "style=\"font-size:11; fill:white; > font-family:SansSerif\">" > + "STOP</text>\n" > + "</svg>\n"); > //------------------------------------------------------------ > > as told in the tutorial concerning the creation of a Stop actor, but > when I instantiate it with the Tools-Instantiate Component menu I only > got the green rectangle. The actor works properly. > > I also tried copying the code of an existing actor and compile then > instantiate, it's the same. > > Has anybody an idea? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Quentin BEY -ONERA- France > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:21:51 +0200 > From: Quentin BEY <quentin.bey at onera.fr> > Subject: [kepler-users] Personal actor's icon... > To: kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org > Message-ID: <1219148511.5970.11.camel at talence> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi all, > > I'm facing a problem I can't solve. For all actors I create, I can't > change the default icon they have (the green rectangular icon). I > inserted the lines: > > //---------------------------------------------------------- > // Icon is a stop sign. > _attachText("_iconDescription", "<svg>\n" > + "<polygon points=\"-8,-19 8,-19 19,-8 19,8 8,19 " > + "-8,19 -19,8 -19,-8\" " > + "style=\"fill:red\"/>\n" > + "<text x=\"-15\" y=\"4\"" > + "style=\"font-size:11; fill:white; > font-family:SansSerif\">" > + "STOP</text>\n" > + "</svg>\n"); > //------------------------------------------------------------ > > as told in the tutorial concerning the creation of a Stop actor, but > when I instantiate it with the Tools-Instantiate Component menu I only > got the green rectangle. The actor works properly. > > I also tried copying the code of an existing actor and compile then > instantiate, it's the same. > > Has anybody an idea? > > Thanks in advance. > > > > Quentin BEY -ONERA- France > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:18:25 -0700 > From: Chad Berkley <berkley at nceas.ucsb.edu> > Subject: Re: [kepler-users] Personal actor's icon... > To: Quentin BEY <quentin.bey at onera.fr> > Cc: kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org > Message-ID: <48AAF251.7090703 at nceas.ucsb.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi Quentin, > > In kepler, there is a different mechanism for assigning icons. Look at > the files > kepler/configs/ptolemy/configs/kepler/uiSVGIconMappingsByClass.properties > and > kepler/configs/ptolemy/configs/kepler/uiSVGIconMappingsByLSID.properties > > You can assign the icon by either class or LSID. Let me know if you > have any problems getting it to work. > > thanks, > chad > > Quentin BEY wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm facing a problem I can't solve. For all actors I create, I can't >> change the default icon they have (the green rectangular icon). I >> inserted the lines: >> >> //---------------------------------------------------------- >> // Icon is a stop sign. >> _attachText("_iconDescription", "<svg>\n" >> + "<polygon points=\"-8,-19 8,-19 19,-8 19,8 8,19 " >> + "-8,19 -19,8 -19,-8\" " >> + "style=\"fill:red\"/>\n" >> + "<text x=\"-15\" y=\"4\"" >> + "style=\"font-size:11; fill:white; >> font-family:SansSerif\">" >> + "STOP</text>\n" >> + "</svg>\n"); >> //------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> as told in the tutorial concerning the creation of a Stop actor, but >> when I instantiate it with the Tools-Instantiate Component menu I only >> got the green rectangle. The actor works properly. >> >> I also tried copying the code of an existing actor and compile then >> instantiate, it's the same. >> >> Has anybody an idea? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> Quentin BEY -ONERA- France >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Kepler-users mailing list >> Kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org >> http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Kepler-users mailing list > Kepler-users at ecoinformatics.org > http://mercury.nceas.ucsb.edu/ecoinformatics/mailman/listinfo/kepler-users > > > End of Kepler-users Digest, Vol 39, Issue 1 > ******************************************* >
