Sheer poetry, Greg. Can't match that. Ian
On Fri, 19 Feb 2021 at 15:20, greg heil <[email protected]> wrote: > Ian > > About 5 years ago i moved in to a new house > before that i spent a couple years > communicating with an architect > Mostly on the web in SVG files > made mostly in Inkscape > with extracted components > which were handcrafted > before retesting > in the Inkscape environment > > Dropbox is no longer in the business > of allowing public use of their cloud > so i got knocked off the web > eventually i may resurrect that part on GitHub > or not > > Have to see > if there is an extractable component > i used E, N and planar view files > The main dynamics were sectional > and a plumbing flow > > ~greg > https//picsrp.github.io > > -- > > from: Ian Clark <[email protected]> > to: Chat forum <[email protected]> > date: Feb 19, 2021, 5:46 AM > subject: Re: [Jchat] Circulatory system graphic > > Greg wrote > > > >One can certainly tie SVG components to transitions in CSS and DOM > events like mouseovers and double clicks. Is that what you mean? > > Yes. > > >To expand on a bald answer, let me focus a little. Suppose I've found a > nice svg of a Cadillac dashboard. I want to hack it so that I can > programmatically give it an integer value (arising from a computation in J) > to set the position of the steering wheel. That spotlights my requirement > right now, and maybe for evermore. Generalize it to rocketship sprites, > wriggling worms, watch-this-space text boxes, moving arrows and beating > hearts. You get the idea. > > >Why? To spruce up a lacklustre app I'm working on with sexy graphics. > > >Now a decade ago I was doing this sort of thing in plain html with > embedded javascript and a series of overlaid images. So crude. So simple. > So why am I (quote) "outside my comfort zone" now? > > >Python promotes itself by offering "just one way to do it". In stark > contrast, HTML and SVG (not to mention J) could boast: there's always one > more way to do it (if you think that's a virtue), i.e. "giving it" the > integer. If I had a spare 2 weeks to plow thru reams of badly written > how-to articles, stackoverflow posts, missing manuals and ladders with > missing rungs, in the end I'd find something that someone could have shown > me in 3 lines of code. But I don't. > > >The way forward? Snoop around for code samples. Do you have one for me? I > don't know what I'm looking for but I'll sure recognize it when I see it. > > Ian > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
