[svg-developers] IE7 / SVG/ASV3

2006-02-01 Thread Francis Hemsher
I've tested IE7 beta 2 and find it seamless and worthy for those who 
have developed SVG in the IE browser, using Adobe SVG Viewer 3. What 
this means is that the IE browser of the future fully supports your 
efforts of the past. 
Also, it provides a stable environment for your future development.

Regards,
Francis






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Re: [svg-developers] Plugin opensource

2006-02-01 Thread Pedro Henrique de Lira
Hi,

I'm developing software SVGFlash (*alpha*), it is similiar Macromedia 
Flash 4.

So I don't have time for develop a player or plugin excelente like flash 
player or flash plugin (IE and FF).

I create my project using JAVA, cross plataform and the objective is 
animation, because exists very aplication for SVG static.

thank's

Ronan Oger escreveu:

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 21:53, Phi Tran wrote:
  

1- There no server-side XMLHTTP needed. It is 100% Client process.
(All it need is an SVG file form the server.). .




Right, as long as you are only interested in static content, that is a fine 
usage. For images, for example.

  

2- It is not 100% SVG1-2 but it support all graphic and cascade style.




Right. This certainly has a place for static content.

  

3- Me My staff want a web-base simple SVG editor that we can work anywhere
(for ourself). Accessible to anyone of us.




Right. I can certainly see the advantage of this.

  

4- I like one that can play SVG on 99.9% of the webserver population. Easy
for Web develpoer do do one WEB-page that it display the same no matter
what browser it is IE 4-5-6-7?? FF 1 -1.2 -1.5 Opera ? AOL ? NS ??




I dont know what you mean by webserver population. You can process SVG with 
batik on 100% of webservers (well, win32, unix, linux, mac... at least).
Is that what you mean? XML-raster on the server, then send it to the client?

  

5- Timing? It slower because it is interpreted Vs compiled. Depend on how
much how big one change it may or may not fit for GAME/animation purpose.
But it may fit on other purpose such as map dynamic image generator such as
a web-base image drawing.




Right. Could be good, especially for clients that cant support static SVG. Are 
many of these? Have you come accross DENG, the svg viewer written in flash? 
Also, why not use flash to generate SVG drawings (blasphemy, but fairly easy, 
I would guess).

  

6- We are not just starting it. but it has been worked for long.



Interesting. Any way to take a look at it? Do you have an online version that 
is accessible?

Ronan

  

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Hi Phi,

Your idea of a web-enabled SVg renderer is great and I support the
concept if
y. Is that an SVG-1.2-full renderer? I am interested to see how you will
support things like SMIL events and xmlhttprequest-driven
serverside-driven
updates. If you manage this, I will be very happy. Even if you only
support
SVGT, that would already be excellent.

However, I have some issues with your point of view:

1. Why do you say adobe has abandoned SVG?  Have Adobe pulled ASV and
forbidden you from using it? As far as I an tell, this has not happened.
Adobe may have decided to stop developing ASV as a product, but so what?
That's their own loss. There are other SVG viewer implementations out
there,
and at least one on the very near horizon.

2. There is already an SVG viewer solution for every platform: Batik. And
for
each major platform, there is at least one SVG implementation. If you
mean cross-browser SVG support, I do not think you can expect much joy.
After all,
it is a bit much to ask modern developers to continue to support IE6
forever.
After all, IE6 is really starting to show its age and is totally out of
date.
Microsoft can refuse to update their browser, but they do so at their own
risk. And while rumours of a pending IE7 abound, I'm not holding my
breath for this to be usable on current hardware. I'll be pleasantly
surprised to hear of IE7 running on WindowsXP on a 2004-2006 PC or
laptop.

3. There is a lot more to SVG than rendering the pixels. time management,
transparency management, and event handling are fairly complex things
that will be difficult to mimick in dhtml and javascript alone. Of
course, you *could* generate pixel maps of an SVG drawing, but doing so
is pointless. Exactly what SVG is good at, pixel maps suck at... distinct
object context handling.

4. Does your cross.browser free SVG editor work on Konqueror? Can you
show a
link? Is it better than Batik-based SVG editors?

5. I do not understand why people starved for an SVG plugin to IE6 do not
simply compile a Batik applet to handle their SVG. Shouldnt that work?
Sure, it would be fat... But it would work. and bandwidth is pretty good
these
days. For web2.0 apps, this solution should suffice.

6. I am not sure what you mean by dealing with black boxes. The source
code
for every SVG implementation in the wild except ASV and CSV is freely
available. All you need to do is read it.

Ronan

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:53, Phi Tran wrote:
  

But as you know ADOBE is abandoned SVG viewer.
And
1- It is not CROSS-BROWSER such as IE
2- I don't like to deal with black box. I want to allow the Web author


more

  

flexibility such as to know that color a point is; or he/she what to


just

  

move/change one item/element . . .
3- It just a sub product of my Cross-platform/ 

RE: [svg-developers] Plugin opensource

2006-02-01 Thread Bru, Pierre
 I fail to understand why you would want to build a plugin 
 from scratch for SVG when instead you could contribute to 
 Mozilla's SVG team, or Konqueror's SVG team, which are open 
 source, and help those implementation get better.

does FF1.5/Mozilla/Konqueror implementation allows to draw SVG on a
transparent background to overlap an existing zone, for exemple to draw
a route on a map, as do Google on Gmap with MS private vector language?

Pierre.


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Re: [svg-developers] Plugin opensource

2006-02-01 Thread Phi Tran
On 2/1/06, Bru, Pierre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  I fail to understand why you would want to build a plugin
  from scratch for SVG when instead you could contribute to
  Mozilla's SVG team, or Konqueror's SVG team, which are open
  source, and help those implementation get better.

 does FF1.5/Mozilla/Konqueror implementation allows to draw SVG on a
 transparent background to overlap an existing zone, for exemple to draw
 a route on a map, as do Google on Gmap with MS private vector language?

 Pierre.




Sure 100% If your SVG does not have an background then ts just draw lines or
 the box etc . . .on a transparent background. The foreground can also be
 semi- transparent (if your SVG say so).


For none-IE: All it does is render thee svg to an in-memory Png file. That
you can put on your img.src. Of couse you can tell it to create for you a
blank Png file then populate it with any color you want each has its own
transparancy.

For IE: Then you have two choices.

- You can export the png to round trip sever/echo or save it to your
local file (intra-net) then assign it to your img.src. For better
transparency on the PNG you should use MS IMAGELOAD FILTER  instead of
img.src

OR:

   - You can have multiple in memory color XBM files to usually 8 then you
can put it into your img(s).src.


Actually it come along with its own client side javascript graphic library
allowing you to build the bitmap files on the fly (at client site) in three
formats PNG, BMP, XBM - We use MS filter to have the monochrome XBM
displayed in color  and/or color affect.


Thanks.

Phi

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[svg-developers] dispatchEvent problem

2006-02-01 Thread kanmac1
Hi all,

we've been developing an application that displays complex SVG content
tot he user. We use ASV3.02 embedded in the IE6.
Such an SVG consists of many layers. Each layer may have plenty of
visible objects.

We had a requirement to implement so called Object look up.
The user clicks on SVG and we have to show all objects located at the
clicked point.

In the first approach we implemented it in the very nasty way.
We set pointer-events attribute for all objects to all.
We have a MouseClickListener added to the root of the SVG. Once the
user clicks we get the target and set the pointer-events to none.
Then we fire a Windows mouseclick again - the MouseClickListener
reacts on that. This time the target is different, since the last one
doesn't get a mouseclick anymore. In that way we go deeper and deeper.
At the very bottom of the SVG we have one big rectangle called
BACKGROUND. If our ObjectLookUp reaches this BACKGROUND we stop the
function and we display all found objects.
It works pretty fine until the user wants to switch to another
application during this click-loop. Because we send mouseclick, but it
won't be handled by our MouseClickListener, since svgViewer is not
visible anymore.

So would like to fix this problem.

We came to the idea to use dispatchEvent method.
So what we have is (pseudo code):

MouseClickListener{
   handleEvent(evt){
  if(evt.target == BACKGROUND){
  showObjects(targetCollection);
  exit();
  }
  targetCollection.add(evt.target);
  evt.target.setAttribute(pointer-events, none)

  // what to do here??
  document.root.dispatchEvent(evt);
   }
}

Since evt is already set and its target is set to the first object,
dispatchEvent will cause that handleEvent is called, but evt is not
updated - it is again the evt with target equal to the first object,
although the first opbject has pointer-events set to none.
We have no API for CreateEvent() in ASV3.0. What can we do?
It is hopeless.

Could someone help us?

I searched the whole archive for the answer but I couldn't find a
solution.


thank you in advance

cheers

Maciek





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[svg-developers] getting xlink:href images that are in xlink:hrefed child svg to show in parent

2006-02-01 Thread desertainment
I'm sure this problem has been around the block before.  Here's the 
scenario:

Parent SVG xlink:href's Child SVG which has xlink:hrefed .jpg images.  
The images don't show in the Parent.  I've even converted the images 
to Base64 and placed them directly in the Child.  Still no images in 
the Parent.  What can I do to make this work?

Thanks in advance





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[svg-developers] Svg adobe viewer and onload events

2006-02-01 Thread bmarquie
Hi all,

I would like to catch load event on a g element. Is it possible?
I am trying to do something like that :
svg
g onload=test()
...
/g
svg

It's not working... I'm using adobe svg viewer 3.03 and IE 6.
In the specification I found that this element should manage this event :
http://www.yoyodesign.org/doc/w3c/svg1/script.html#EventAttributes

Is a problem with adobe?

Thx

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RE: [svg-developers] Svg adobe viewer and onload events

2006-02-01 Thread Peter Kalev
I never had a problem with onload on the svg element, but never
tried it on another element...  :(

Peter Kalev
Senior Developer,
SWF, LLC


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To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [svg-developers] Svg adobe viewer and onload events

Hi all,

I would like to catch load event on a g element. Is it possible?
I am trying to do something like that :
svg
g onload=test()
...
/g
svg

It's not working... I'm using adobe svg viewer 3.03 and IE 6.
In the specification I found that this element should manage this event
:
http://www.yoyodesign.org/doc/w3c/svg1/script.html#EventAttributes

Is a problem with adobe?

Thx

Bruno







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Re: [svg-developers] IE7 / SVG/ASV3

2006-02-01 Thread Ronan Oger
Francis,

Interesting, and good to hear that IE7 is reasonable performant. What was the 
SVG-viewer you were using, and what was the hardware performance? Were you 
using ASV3 as a plugin?

Ronan

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:02, Francis Hemsher wrote:
 I've tested IE7 beta 2 and find it seamless and worthy for those who
 have developed SVG in the IE browser, using Adobe SVG Viewer 3. What
 this means is that the IE browser of the future fully supports your
 efforts of the past.
 Also, it provides a stable environment for your future development.

 Regards,
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Re: [svg-developers] Plugin opensource

2006-02-01 Thread Ronan Oger
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 12:59, Bru, Pierre wrote:
  I fail to understand why you would want to build a plugin
  from scratch for SVG when instead you could contribute to
  Mozilla's SVG team, or Konqueror's SVG team, which are open
  source, and help those implementation get better.

 does FF1.5/Mozilla/Konqueror implementation allows to draw SVG on a
 transparent background to overlap an existing zone, for exemple to draw
 a route on a map, as do Google on Gmap with MS private vector language?

 Pierre.


I believe so. I asked this question last month to this list, and got a 
positive answer. Anyways, one thing is certain: what Google Maps does with 
VML and transparent images on top of a tiled set of raster images,people 
routinely do with SVG in the webmapping context. Check carto.net for numerous 
examples of this...

Anyways, here is a trivial example of dynamic overlays over maps (clunky and 
rough, but I hope you get the point that this already can be done... All the 
data points are delivered real-time from an external server.

http://www.roitsystems.com/SVG-Widgets/navigation/ShipAutomation.svg

It's kind of clunky, and the underlying image is statically located, but that 
is simply because I spent 3 days on this demo...

And it works on any implementation that supports script access to the DOM or 
to the uDOM, and xmlhttprequest or GetURL.

The key point I am attempting to make is that the community would be better 
served by interested developers supporting and extending existing SVG 
implementations rather than by going out on and starting Yet Another 
Implementation...

Ask any SVG browser developer, and you will get the same answer: it's not that 
simple. The trivial stuff like static SVG is fine, but that's not enough, and 
is not SVG1.2 or SVGT1.2 compliant, so static implementations are really of 
no interest to anyone. And anyways, there are too many static SVG 
implementations to list.

It took Mozilla 3 years toget to where they are today, and anyone who thinks 
they can do better from scratch is kidding themeselves. There are plenty of 
existing solutions out there... let's help the developers working on those 
implementations rather than making their task even harder by competing 
against them. 

Finally, if you want a feature you can't find in your favorite opensource SVG 
implementation, why not request a feature and get some people together to 
fund the work? A little financial sponsorship goes a long way in open 
source...

Ronan

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[svg-developers] Mozilla and SVG

2006-02-01 Thread Darryl Watson
Mozilla.org announces the 1.0 release of their internet suite, 
'SeaMonkey'.  Why we care is that they explicitly mention native SVG 
support.  While this is not news to the readers of this email list, it 
means more exposure for SVG to the internet hoardes.


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[svg-developers] Re: IE7 / SVG/ASV3

2006-02-01 Thread kggsystem
Wow, that was fast! IE7 Beta 2 was only released yesterday. Has 
anybody tried SVG (ASV 3) on IE 7 Beta 1? I tried it and couldn't get 
the ASV control to site. 

Also I am sitting in a Windows Vista (longhorn) training session 
trying to drop the SVG Control on a VB Form and hook it's SRC property 
up to a SVG file sitting on my desktop. 

It doesn't seem to work. Anybody played with SVG on Vista betas

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[svg-developers] javascript keyevents

2006-02-01 Thread Sean
I've added an event listner to capture key press events and have a mouse 
cursor issue.  If I were to embed the svg into html and capture keypress 
events with function aKeyDown(e) in the html, my cursor does not need to 
be in the browser window to capture the event, as long as the browser is 
the active window.  Without html, all the listner and event triggers 
must be in the svg, which means if the cursor is not over the svg 
document, nothing can happen, even if the browser is active.  Is there a 
way around this without embedding into html?  Thanks!

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Re: [svg-developers] Pls help me, if u can

2006-02-01 Thread X Razvan
i DISCOVERED the bug. When i add in my svg, the
attribute xlink:href=*.js changes in href=*.js
.and also...and don't know why...

--- Ronan Oger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Pls. post an example of your output from php so we
 can see what your bug is. 
 From the top of my head, it looks like your xml is
 not well formed (typo).
 
 On Tuesday 31 January 2006 16:37, X Razvan wrote:
  i'm new is svg...
  so..
 
  I have a svg.it works.then i add some tags in
 it(with
  php)...and an error objects expected
  ;line0,col24 appears... where i should look to
 remove
  the error?
 
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[svg-developers] Edit Text

2006-02-01 Thread Sean
I've just uploaded a modified version of Kevin Lindsey's TextBox.  It 
has a blinking cursor, backspace, ability to insert characters, and use 
of left and right arrow keys.


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Re: [svg-developers] Re: IE7 / SVG/ASV3

2006-02-01 Thread Jeff Rafter


kggsystem wrote:
 Wow, that was fast! IE7 Beta 2 was only released yesterday. Has 
 anybody tried SVG (ASV 3) on IE 7 Beta 1? I tried it and couldn't get 
 the ASV control to site. 
 
 Also I am sitting in a Windows Vista (longhorn) training session 
 trying to drop the SVG Control on a VB Form and hook it's SRC property 
 up to a SVG file sitting on my desktop. 
 
 It doesn't seem to work. Anybody played with SVG on Vista betas

That didn't work properly in XP / 2000 / 98 either... It may be the same 
error though I suspect not-- but it is nothing new. It would work in 
some situations but generally it did not.

Jeff


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[svg-developers] Re: Plugin opensource

2006-02-01 Thread minhducthandan
--- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Ronan Oger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Wednesday 01 February 2006 12:59, Bru, Pierre wrote:
   I fail to understand why you would want to build a plugin
   from scratch for SVG when instead you could contribute to
   Mozilla's SVG team, or Konqueror's SVG team, which are open
   source, and help those implementation get better.
 
  does FF1.5/Mozilla/Konqueror implementation allows to draw SVG on a
  transparent background to overlap an existing zone, for exemple to
draw
  a route on a map, as do Google on Gmap with MS private vector
language?
 
  Pierre.
 
 
 I believe so. I asked this question last month to this list, and got a 
 positive answer. Anyways, one thing is certain: what Google Maps
does with 
 VML and transparent images on top of a tiled set of raster
images,people 
 routinely do with SVG in the webmapping context. Check carto.net for
numerous 
 examples of this...
 
 Anyways, here is a trivial example of dynamic overlays over maps
(clunky and 
 rough, but I hope you get the point that this already can be done...
All the 
 data points are delivered real-time from an external server.
 
 http://www.roitsystems.com/SVG-Widgets/navigation/ShipAutomation.svg
 
 It's kind of clunky, and the underlying image is statically located,
but that 
 is simply because I spent 3 days on this demo...
 
 And it works on any implementation that supports script access to
the DOM or 
 to the uDOM, and xmlhttprequest or GetURL.
 
 The key point I am attempting to make is that the community would be
better 
 served by interested developers supporting and extending existing SVG 
 implementations rather than by going out on and starting Yet Another 
 Implementation...
 
 Ask any SVG browser developer, and you will get the same answer:
it's not that 
 simple. The trivial stuff like static SVG is fine, but that's not
enough, and 
 is not SVG1.2 or SVGT1.2 compliant, so static implementations are
really of 
 no interest to anyone. And anyways, there are too many static SVG 
 implementations to list.
 
 It took Mozilla 3 years toget to where they are today, and anyone
who thinks 
 they can do better from scratch is kidding themeselves. There are
plenty of 
 existing solutions out there... let's help the developers working on
those 
 implementations rather than making their task even harder by competing 
 against them. 
 
 Finally, if you want a feature you can't find in your favorite
opensource SVG 
 implementation, why not request a feature and get some people
together to 
 fund the work? A little financial sponsorship goes a long way in open 
 source...
 
 Ronan
 
 -- 
 Ronan Oger
 Director
 RO IT Systems GmbH
   ...Building Web2.0 with SVG since 2001
 
 http://www.roitsystems.com


Hi Roman.

1- I Am glad that you have fixed the blank link of your web-site. 

2- The purpose of The forum is to SHARE Knowledge  Good stub they
may not fit you but it may fit someone else. We invest our effort to
fit our in-house need first. If we see it then we share. We also want
to acheive something that we are unabled to get from othe off-the
shelf /opensource.

  WHEN WE HAVE SOMETHING GOOD WE SHARE.

Example: You may not need the SVG stub but someone else may need a
cabitlity to generate the realtime/On-the-fly very--very dynamic
graphic capabilty without the round trip back/forth from the server--
TOO SLOW - Certainly it fit our GAMES SOFTWARE. FLASH Not
dynamic enough.

3-As you say It take FF 3 years to have SVG implemented this far.
--TOO LONG--- my business can't wait that long.

4-I have seen wish list(s) and I have spent time to study I mean
hacking the code of the opensource(s) before We decide do our own.
It's simply not fit the requirement of our Client.

5-Time will tell and the community will judge either I am belong the
the group of someone kidding themeselves or .







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