On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:28:56 +0100, Dailey, David P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Andreas wrote: > "not sure I fully understand your requirement. Are you looking for a > progressive drawing of a path geometry? If yes, you can do this by > animating the stroke-dash of a path." > > Examples are provided: [1] and [2]. Yes; exactly what I was asking for. > Pretty clever it is! > > Now I have a new question - consider the example at > http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/svg/unveilPath.svg (it uses SMIL > so be sure to use a proper browser) > > I've simplified the basic example as much as I can, and am trying to > animate the fill to follow the animation of the path. Clearly this is a > kludge. However, what I did think of was the following: how about I > stick a copy of the first half of the path (with its animated > stroke-dash) inside a clipPath and then apply the clipPath to the > original path. Then shouldn't the growth of the clipping region unveil > the path as well as its fill, concurrently? > > Alas, it didn't work. From the spec [3] , we find that > > "The raw geometry of each child element exclusive of rendering > properties such as 'fill' > <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/painting.html#FillProperty> , 'stroke' > <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/painting.html#StrokeProperty> , 'stroke-width' > <http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/painting.html#StrokeWidthProperty> within a > 'clipPath' conceptually defines a 1-bit mask (with the possible > exception of anti-aliasing along the edge of the geometry) which > represents the silhouette of the graphics associated with that element." A mask should be able to do the trick. Inside the mask just draw the path with white fill and/or stroke. Cheers /Erik -- Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Personal blog: http://my.opera.com/macdev_ed ------------------------------------ ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ----Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
