Re: [svg-developers] Re: Swapping attribute values on large numbers of elements

2007-02-01 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, in a situation like this: svg ... onmouseup=myDrag(evt) onclick=myClick(evt).../ i expected to get a mouseup-event only when finishing dragging. but i get a click-event too, no matter how long i dragged my stuff around. ASV, FF and Opera do so, hence i expect this to be the clean

Re: [svg-developers] carto:net - MapApp question

2007-01-08 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi simon, the problem here is that andreas' navigationTools use the viewBox for all zoom and pan techniques whereas the tooltip-function such as in here http://svg.carto.net/srv/sourceAndFileViewer.php?filecode=98802show=file takes advantage of currentTranslate/currentScale parameters.

[svg-developers] default font in opera

2006-12-11 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, when using clean styling (e.g. font-size:12px), ASV, FF2 and Squiggle render fonts more or less in a nice way (using some sans-serif fonts that fit where in it should). but my opera 9.00 uses some serif font with approx. that needs150% width and also overlaps vertically. is this a bug?

Re: [svg-developers] How to represent the point geometry

2006-11-10 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
what about circle cx= cy= r=/ ? -- ___ andre m. winter, cartography for internet and multimedia applications schiessstand 4/1, a6091 goetzens, tyrol, austria tel.: ++43.5234.32732 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] new svg

Re: [svg-developers] Map servers

2006-11-09 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi guy, two main solutions: 1) using a WMS (web map service) like terraserver sending you satellite images on request (based mainly in extent, map porjection and layout if available). a mapsever (eg. UMN mapserver) handles those requests on your server, adds your own info and passes this

Re: [svg-developers] microsoft jscript runtime error javascript object null

2006-09-12 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, there may also be proxies involved. the hardcore-test is renaming (or copying) your main file. when clearing the IE-cache, you also need to call clear the viewed page before (e.g. call about:blank). another possibility is an old ASV-version. andre --

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Windows Live Local Now Uses SVG !

2006-05-30 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, just a side note on the fact that google maps (and MS live local) do not use SVG in Opera: the official Opera version is 9. and those ones do not support a transparent background. hence any SVG is rendered in a white box overlapping the raster tiles and that makes the application more or

[svg-developers] lage amounts of data WAS Re: progress on svg viewers?

2006-05-10 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, just a note about the misleading wish of wanting to show 2mb of vector data in an internet based network. i really do not see the need for such viewers/browsers. why should SVG viewer be able to handle more if nowadays browsers (last versions of MSIE, FF, Opera) are not able to handle

[svg-developers] inline svg (opera) transparency against background?

2006-05-10 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, i am playing around with adding SVG-elements to an (X)HTML-DOM through scripting. that works well in FF and opera (sample: http://www.carto.net/temp/svg003.html). but the SVG isn't transparent against background in Opera (v8.54). any idea to achieve transparency here? thx andré --

Re: [svg-developers] lage amounts of data WAS Re: progress on svg viewers?

2006-05-10 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
applications schiessstand 4/1, a6091 goetzens, tyrol, austria tel.: ++43.5234.32732 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] new svg book with actual scripting samples out now! checkhttp://svg.carto.net/ Charles McCathieNevile wrote: On Wed, 10 May 2006 04:37:15 -0400, Andre M

[svg-developers] SVG on Google Maps in FF

2006-05-04 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
dragable polylines: http://koti.mbnet.fi/ojalesa/exam/polylive.html, seen on http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API/browse_thread/thread/9fe2a3ae60956c56/fb544c0c48231574 -- ___ andre m. winter, cartography for internet

Re: [svg-developers] SVG on Google Maps in FF

2006-05-04 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
- From: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andre M. Winter - Carto.net Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 6:29 AM To: svg-developers@yahoogroups.com Subject: [svg-developers] SVG on Google Maps in FF dragable polylines: http://koti.mbnet.fi/ojalesa/exam

Re: [svg-developers] GIS Using SVG

2006-03-27 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi ramesh marikhu, generally it is not possible to encrypt client side java/ECMAscript. one way is to backward engineering through function names (that need to be readable when placed as event handlers). just add an alert(functionName) within the scriptblock (or in an all encolsing

Re: [svg-developers]GIS Using SVG

2006-03-27 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, I don't know if you have taken a look at http://www.carto.net/. There are lots of GIS SVG tutorials and sample projects available. The code they used is also open-source (correct me if I'm wrong). You can go a long way with the tutorials written there. definitely true, these is

Re: [svg-developers] How to import .js files into SVG

2006-03-02 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
Jeroen Vanattenhoven wrote: Is it possible to load .js files via js-code? when you mean in an asynchrony way - no. you can load them but they will not be interpreted as the script-interpreter reads them unload of the main file. that is not an SVG issue, it is the same in HTML, hence it is a

Re: [svg-developers] Bizare JavaScript problem

2006-01-24 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi richard, the line number in an error message generally is related to the begin of the script block. in external script-files line 1 is really line 1, in scripts within script-tags, your line 1 is the one after the script-tag. you need to add the number of lines your header takes. the third

Re: [svg-developers] Zoom Pan

2005-12-12 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
Except for people (e.g. with a mobility impairment) who - can't use a mouse, or - can't use mouse and keyboard at the same time. When you think users, don't assume that everyone is fully able-bodied. yes, but a majority is. for them well suited interfaces are needed. for the others

Re: [svg-developers] Screen extents

2005-12-12 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi g., var myDocElem = document.documentElement; try { // STANDARD METHOD myViewport = { myWidth : myDocElem.viewport.width, myHeight : myDocElem.viewport.height } }

Re: [svg-developers] Zoom Pan

2005-12-12 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi christophe my intention is to have a full functional interface, as much as the actual technology permits (and reaches technically speaking some significant percentage of users). concerning map interfaces, my philosophy is to make them supernumerary, as much as possible. i can think about

Re: [svg-developers] Zoom Pan

2005-12-12 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, take a map and let users (or yourself) zoom in. once you know there is a ctrl+drag, you never touch the archaic + and - buttons anymore. it really makes a difference in usablility. Is this impossible when disabling zoom and pan? no Is it possible to work it out using JavaScript

Re: [svg-developers] Zoom Pan

2005-12-08 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi Jeroen, Zoom Pan operations on SVG maps are quite common. Mostly those operations are implemented changing the viewBox attributes. the problem is that viewBox manipulations are incompatible with currentScale/Translate because on every setting of new viewBox values

Re: [svg-developers] Zoom Pan

2005-12-08 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, I don't see the drawback of disabling pan zoom since you application will probably have a specific user interface for zooming panning the map. Or do you mean with as a cartographer that there are a lot of GIS applications which currently use something similar? (I'm not a

Re: [svg-developers] centered Zooming using JS?

2005-12-04 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi karim, i don't know what kind of svg base file you are using nor do i know what calls zoom() in your sample. but you could go on with such a structure svg width=100% height=100% ...!--no viewBox defined here-- svg id=myMap width=100% height=100% viewBox=437000 –4788000 146000 226000/ ...

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Best Way tto draw an SVG grid.

2005-11-24 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi skynarc, you need to add this grid als svg elements (line, path, ...), in other words: draw it too. andré wrote: Am I correct in understanding that SCG works with a grid similar to apps such as Corel and Illustrator and if so, how can I show this grid? We need to be able to show the

Re: protecting SVG is pointless - was Re: [svg-developers] Protect SVG - Was Re: Today's Joke: Printing SVG in IE

2005-11-14 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, it is a common practice in mapping to introduce errors in maps and GIS datasets in order to recognize them later as yours. there is no difference between desktop maps and paper maps. but i don't think that it makes sense to laboriously scramble your data. the main problem is that after

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Today's Joke: Printing SVG in IE

2005-11-11 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, anyway, it would be a real plus to have vector based printing on the client side. the FOP-trick is nice, but far far away from any clean server-client-logic: anything is on the client, just no viewer handles it ;-( btw, i had the impresson that the old GDI-based SVG-enabled Firefox did

Re: [svg-developers] Finding a nodes Id from Event

2005-11-11 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
alert(elementdata[evt.target.getAttributeNS(null,'id')]); andré brunertodd wrote: Apologies in advance for a stupid question that so far has resisted googling. I wish to know the Id value for a node that has been clicked. for example: g id=mybox onclick=printData(evt) polygon

Re: [svg-developers] how to know when ASV3 finishes rendering?

2005-11-10 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, with svg onload=.../ you should be able to trigger the moment when all your elements are loaded and those will be ready for DOM manipulations. this does not mean that they are rendered. basically it should not harm as the objects will react on script calls. of course there is one

Re: [svg-developers] Borders for Path

2005-11-09 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi kirthi, i don't understand your question a border is a path, a border too. where is the crossing problem? a sample would help here. andré -- ___ andre m. winter, cartography for internet and multimedia applications

Re: [svg-developers] Text align right

2005-11-09 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
|text x=YOUR_RIGHT_BORDER y=SOMETHING text-anchor=end|your text/text andré -- ___ andre m. winter, cartography for internet and multimedia applications schiessstand 4/1, a6091 goetzens, tyrol, austria tel.: ++43.5234.32732

[svg-developers] Batik error on reload with .getScreenCTM()

2005-11-01 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, last week there was Jonathan Watt having to admit a .getScreenCTM() bug on FF1.5b2, now here is one similar for Thomas Deweese and batik1.6 1) load this file: http://svg.carto.net/temp/batik16_reload_getScreenCTM_err.svg 2) zoom in 3) hit reload twice, and watch the values for screenCTM.e

Re: [svg-developers] Re: matrixTransform

2005-10-31 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
of a matrixTransform of a SVGPath into a new SVGPath using the d attribute syntax (not using transform of course). Bart --- In svg-developers@yahoogroups.com, Andre M. Winter - Carto.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, playing around with .matrixTransform() i noticed that it only

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Performance question

2005-10-06 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi julie, there is no real workaround. (trop c'est trop.) some possibilities although: - switch of anti-aliasing - try to render rectangles rather than circles. if they are that small that won't make any difference. i did some tests a year ago with randomly generated basic shapes. in order

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Performance question

2005-10-06 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
://www.carto.at/ print and online touristic map solutions Thanks a lot. Julie Andre M. Winter - Carto.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : hi julie, there is no real workaround. (trop c'est trop.) some possibilities although: - switch of anti-aliasing - try to render rectangles rather than

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Does SVG allow relative positioning of graphical elements?

2005-09-22 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi simon, that limitation of % not being supported in paths and polygon lines is somthing that i found irritating too. in order to achieve what you want you could place your elements in svg-containers (as children of the outermost root one) and place them with x/y/w/h in %. but it really

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Can I use pattern to fill a Path?

2005-09-05 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi Zhu and Heiko, from my point of view patterns on stroke are more or less useless. but one could reach the desired results by overlaying two or more fonts. of course glyph width and baseline is importantant here and not all kind of curves can be perfectly filled that way. check the code

Re: [svg-developers] Mr. Sid images and SVG

2005-08-08 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi todd, no. SVG1.1 (and most viewers) only allow JPG and PNG as raster files. maybe next viewes will support JPG2000 for compression levels. andré -- ___ andre m. winter, cartography for internet and multimedia applications

Re: [svg-developers] Deer-Park and dynamic SVG interfaces

2005-07-28 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, yes, i am also see SVG in FFDPA2 much slower than IE/ASV3. it seems that the slowness is not a rendering issue because when sizing the window down, the mousevents don't speed up (that is the case with ASV). andré -- ___

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Value of a pixel

2005-06-22 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi nicolas, you should be able to place the color value (or whatever value) info per px in a 2-dim js-array and access this on mousemove based on some returned screen coords. 600² is a lot but not too much for js. andré -- ___

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Value of a pixel

2005-06-22 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
values) x (3 chars for each color value) = 324 bytes. So 3 MB to transfert... Perhaps can I use another kind of stream ?? Nicolas _ De : svg-developers@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Andre M. Winter - Carto.net Envoyé : mercredi 22 juin 2005 14:22 À : svg

Re: [svg-developers] Line moving on a path

2005-06-10 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
not shure, try to return the path description the other way round. andré Now it works - thanks to both of you. But: now it runs in the other direction. How can I control the direction, in which the snake moves? Hago - To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit

Re: [svg-developers] Line moving on a path

2005-06-09 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, you could du the same with stroke-dasharray and stroke-dashoffset. in that case you would have 2 superposed lines, the gray static as now and a similar one on top where you would animate the stroking. in that case you could control the restart in order to start when the line aproaches

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Mozilla Native SVG

2005-06-01 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, i read about a switch somewhere in the options that enables or disables SVG rendering by FF. the default is disabled. sorry don't have it by hand right now nor tried yet, so cannot give you more precise advice. andr -- ___

Re: [svg-developers] correct way to write code that modifies DOM?

2005-05-25 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi peter, get and set methods (esp. getFirstChild(), getTarget(), etc.) are old methods introduced by ASV in order to work as a plugin in NN4. they are just outdated and that's why they do not work in FF. andré -- ___ andre m.

Re: [svg-developers] parseXML()

2005-04-21 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/samples/get_parse.shtml -- ___ andre m. winter, cartography for internet and multimedia applications a6091 goetzens, tyrol, austria tel.: ++43.5234.32732 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [svg-developers] Adobe to buy Macromedia

2005-04-18 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, posters on the french ML [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out an important fact: SVG is a W3C-standard. even if adobe doesn't support SVG anymore, this cannot be considered as SVG's death. this would not be true for the competing techologies inside the new adobe group like falsh and pdf. the

Re: [svg-developers] How to write the german letter 'ä' ('ae')

2005-04-13 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, the easiest way is to encode your file as UTF-8 (most text editors support that). that is the default encoding for svg (and the default ASV expects). therein, just type your 'äöüß', they are available. there are other ways (hex-encoding) but UTF-8 is by far the easiest way to go. andré

[svg-developers] opera browser in Adobe CS2

2005-04-05 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, what does that mean for SVG? http://www.opera.com/pressreleases/en/2005/04/04/index.dml Opera Software today announced that the Opera browser is now integrated in Adobe® Creative Suite 2. This complete design and publishing environment will use Opera as the engine for the majority of

Re: [svg-developers] Re: google and SVG

2005-03-29 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi, i didn't notice any change on google's indexing behaviour. since several months svg files get indexed but with no content/description. thus the only index is the filename itself. andré -- ___ andre m. winter, cartography

[svg-developers] svg books (non EN/DE)

2005-03-23 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi list, i am searching for non english and non german SVG books available. so far i found those: italian, a copy of andre watt's book: http://www.ita-bol.com/bol/main.jsp?action=bolschedaean=978883864236 french, a copy of J. David Eisenberg SVG Essentials (?)

Re: [svg-developers] URL in browser status bar

2005-03-14 Thread Andre M. Winter - Carto.net
hi marjorie, generally with such problems it is best to upload your samples files somewhere in order to get a look at. andré -- ___ andre m. winter, cartography for internet and multimedia applications a6091 goetzens,