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Posted by ssolie on 2006/12/13 17:16:10 (1732 reads) News by the same author

Fredrik Wikstrom has managed to put together an SVG datatype for OS4.

Grab it from OS4 Depot.

Installation:

1. Copy svg.datatype to SYS:Classes/DataTypes/.
2. Copy SVG to DEVS:DataTypes/.

SDK users can just use "make install".

The OS4 native expat.library is needed in order for the datatype to work (it is not enough to just use a .l.main glue file!). This library can be found as part of the expat-ppc archive on OS4Depot.

Compiling:

"make".

Bugs:

None known.

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Author	Thread
Chris	Published: 2006/12/13 19:01 Updated: 2006/12/13 19:01
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/17/2006 From: England Comments: 3363	Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype Something OS4 could do with is a scalable graphics datatype superclass - so you can specify the picture size you want (Multiview could then scale it to the size of the current window). Chris

yoodoo2	Published: 2006/12/13 20:09 Updated: 2006/12/13 20:09
Just popping in Joined: 12/09/2006 From: The Bostin' Black Country Comments: 111	Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype Indeed. This is a good start though, and I'm sure I'll find a use for it in MindSpace.

eXec	Published: 2006/12/14 1:17 Updated: 2006/12/14 1:17
Just popping in Joined: 12/04/2006 From: Comments: 33	Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype http://os4.exec.pl/programy/svg_dt/screenshots/svg_dt-icons.png

salass00	Published: 2006/12/14 14:26 Updated: 2006/12/14 14:26
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/30/2006 From: Finland Comments: 1881	Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype I've uploaded a new version (0.2) to OS4Depot which fixes some of the crashing. It's not perfect (see the Bugs section in the readme) but at least it doesn't crash so often (instead it fails silently...). BTW I tried increasing the priority on the descriptor file like someone suggested, only it didn't work so well, so I changed it back. With the priority 1 descriptor all svg files were opened as text files. It seems the priority works the opposite to what you would expect, and there is unfortunately no way to set a negative priority...

Chris	Published: 2006/12/15 0:20 Updated: 2006/12/15 0:20
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/17/2006 From: England Comments: 3363	Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype I've set negative priorities before using dtdesc. However, it sounds like Sebastian Bauer might need to fix the priority of the HTML descriptor, or make it a bit more strict.

salass00	Published: 2006/12/15 9:29 Updated: 2006/12/15 9:29
Just can't stay away Joined: 11/30/2006 From: Finland Comments: 1881	Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype @Chris I checked one of the datatypes header files and the priority field is an unsigned 16-bit integer. I even tried inputting 65535 which would produce -1 if it was treated as signed and it gave the same result as before...

Raziel	Published: 2006/12/16 18:58 Updated: 2006/12/16 18:58
Home away from home Joined: 11/26/2006 From: a dying planet Comments: 5455	Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype Thanks a lot Fredrik, another one from you, cool

poweramiga	Published: 2006/12/29 3:41 Updated: 2006/12/29 3:41
Amigans Defender Joined: 11/18/2006 From: Flinders NSW Australia Comments: 772	Re: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Datatype insalled and using but not 100% sure what its doing