Re: First experience with SVG

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On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:

> Hello again, thanks for all the helpful replies. I've used some of your tips 
> and have also noted some more for future improvement, especially as browsers 
> implement more features!
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> I've temporarily put my little SVG tool at the following address in case you 
> are curious:
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> http://teras-ics.mooo.com:8003/cgi-bin/callgrind_svg.cgi?r=4.8-20120429
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> David: you mentioned a good tip of keeping rects/texts inside a <g> so that I 
> set coordinates only once. Since <g> doesn't have x,y attributes I'd have to 
> use translate(), right? Wouldn't that mean that I wouln't be able to use % 
> coords? (I use them all over the place) Would it have other implications?
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> Also textLength and lengthAdjust are fantastic, but if I understand they are 
> not meant to clip text, but to squeeze it.
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> Olaf: Textarea is very nice, I'll certainly use it when supported! But I'd be 
> happy with even simpler solution, since wrapping is an overkill for my needs. 
> Ideally I'd want <text> to accepth the "width" attribute, wouldn't that be 
> really simple both in understanding and in implementing? Or maybe textarea 
> needs a new attribute: onlimit=wrap/clip?
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> Right now I restrict the text you see inside the rects by running getBBox() 
> on every text, see if it fits, cut the string in half, see if it fits, and 
> clear it if not. Reducing the string length char-by-char until it fits proved 
> *way* too slow. For simplicity I had this to execute "onload" for every rect 
> but didn't work, so I changed it to "onload" for the whole <svg>. I guess 
> this is client-dependant.
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> Maybe there is a transformation for <g> that sets width and height for 
> children elements?
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> That reminds me that I was trying to set the value of some attributes in <g>, 
> for example rx,x,y,width,height,onmouseover so that all children elements 
> inherit them. This is not doable in some other way, right? Especially for 
> "rx", it seemed to me strange that I had to repeat it in every element, since 
> I couldn't globally set it either with XML or CSS.
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> Finally, Olaf, you mention that I should use a viewbox, which indeed is much 
> more friendly for all the transformations. If I do how can I set the SVG to 
> use the 100% of the browser window?
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> Thanks in advance,
> Dimitris
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Received on Saturday, 30 June 2012 03:18:44 UTC