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That's not a problem, Mike. The enhancements won't appear until SVG-FTG V6.3 anyway, and so there's plenty of time to let users try your add-in first. My main reason for mentioning these special effects is that you have full control over your header file, and so you could provide any of them for you...

One final update on this thread, which is otherwise dormant now: if you're not in the SVG-FTG Group on Facebook then you may not be aware of the forthcoming support for drop-shadows on boxes, 3-D boxes, fancy picture frames on boxes, or elliptical boxes. This was me finishing some old experimentatio...

Re: localisation of Pan-Zoom, there's a new link in the "Program Notes : Pan-Zoom" section that shows how to disable the standard controls and put your own ones in place. As I said before, the standard ones are not using text and so are virtually impossible to localise. The demo at that li...

V6.2 now released to usual place, Mike, and associated blog post published. See https://parallaxviewpoint.com/SVG-FTG/ for summary information. As before, both the Header_iframe.html and the example iframe element in the documentation have changed. They should be simpler now that I've sorted the las...

I think that should be easy, Mike. This was just an experiment to deal with the 'Reset' control, but I didn't add any initialisation code to set the same zoom level. That used to be there but I'd removed for the reasons I mentioned, but it can be added back now. Looks like we have a plan :-) I would...

Mike, could you try an experiment there? In the wrapper function that configures the pan-zoom, could you add this line at the end? window[pz].reset = function() { window[pz].center(); window[pz].zoom(0.95); } This will try and modify the action of the reset control. There is no public API for this b...

In the V6.1 HTML file, Mike, if you look for the Pan-Zoom initialisation, you'll see that the initial zoom level was 98%, and that left a margin. However, a RESET lost that and I had complaints about it. Try as I did, I could not find a way of making the RESET go to a specific zoom level that was < ...

Here's a quick example that asks for the background colour and sets it on the iframe.

This should be done in the same ifr_query() call, or at least in the handler part of it, because event handlers are single-threaded in JavaScript, and cannot execute until previous ones have completed.

Tony

There was no iframe support in v6.1, Mike. The SVG border did not obscure the shapes then, and it doesn't now. What you're seeing is that the SVG border has now been replaced by an iframe border, and they are not playing as well together. Have you tried turning off the iframe border? What about usin...

When sized to 'fit' then Pan-Zoom takes away all the gaps and the entities are up against the enclosing borders, Mike. You can set the initial zoom level to, say, 98% (as before) but that is lost when you select 'Reset'. The overlap of the shape border and the iframe border seems to be a problem wit...

OK, I've managed to steal time away from the food, drink, and TV -- when no one was looking -- to package up a V6.2 Beta-2. The location is the same as before, Mike. Couple of new entries added to the previous feature list: 1) The copy-and-paste features in the Tree Designer, and when bringing in el...

I think it should be up to the hosting document (the one containing the iframe element) to position it, Mike. Although the size calculation in the PDF example for the hosting document has changed, it was the header_iframe.html of the embedded document I was interested in. Anything to do with CSS can...

That's another good one, Mike. The min-width/min-height properties are the main problem, and are not really needed so they can go. However, there's a more subtle problem to do with clash between Pan-Zoom's scaling and the initial/final margins that SVG-FTG plans for. I've fixed it but it meant chang...

I would expect the lack of gap to always be true in the output when using Pan-Zoom. Could you send me a copy of your txt file, Mike?

Tony

I know it's close to Christmas, Mike, but I knocked up a reliable algorithm to size a piece of text in an arbitrary font, and wrap it neatly over lines of a given pixel width. As I said before, this has to be done within SVG-FTG (i.e. offline) so that I can place the individual text segments inside ...

Yeah, I just had to switch two lines, Mike. A silly bug on my part

Tony

Does anyone else expect to have feedback on the beta such that I should wait before V6.2 is released properly?

I was hoping to publish it before Christmas, which I know is a short beta but most of the recent stuff was for Mike's plug-in.

Tony

Ah, good one. Thanks Mike. Re: your past question about the pan-zoom library being localised, I looked into this before and it does not use text. It carves the "RESET" itself using a path element. I have no idea why. There is an issue raised for it on GitHub but I suspect I'm going to have...

I've published the first V6.2 beta for anyone who might be interested. Available at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/14orkuhw58fja8m/AAAVyHR4sFfmgsCU5HvJ-j9Ja?dl=0 NB: Installing this will displace your existing version and you'll need to re-install it when you've finished with the beta. If you don't wan...

As I said, Mike, I'm working on other stuff this week, but I want to add a note about my future direction (some of this has already been experimented with). 1) I have moved the Compendia caption from HTML into a named variable (cp_title), which does make it easier to change, but you still need an XM...

I'll see what i can do, Mike. I do take your point on a number of issues but it feels like re-inventing the wheel to some extent. Leave it with me, anyway. As for the iframe stuff, I have a really neat solution that is easy to deploy. I wanted this to be clean because I can see it being important in...

No, they're picked up automatically, Mike. As long as the filename matches the documented wildcard then it loads it. Nothing else is required.

Tony

I accept would be nice to make it all neat and tidy but is it really necessary. Are there more pressing issues? Like the ones I discussed before... Being able to assign an application to different buttons. Being able to change some rigid text that is currently inhibited despite associated Tooltip t...

Mike, since we seem to be getting somewhere, can be agree on a possible plan? 1) I will produce a Header_iframe.html that produces the best rendering we can find for arbitrary trees (i.e. ones that may include apps). I welcome your input here. 2) A small communication mechanism allowing the outer do...

It avoids smaller frames bring stretched. Remember that is sizing the enclosing div.

Tony