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SVGGraph 2.6
The new version of SVGGraph adds a number of features that have been requested several times - graph titles, axis labels and a legend for showing what the items on the graph mean.
I've resisted adding these for a long time, mainly because doing anything with
text in SVG is quite awkward. As the text is rendered in the browser using the
fonts and settings that the end user has available, SVG does not provide any
text measuring functions - so knowing how much space a line of text is going to
take up is a bit tricky. The new graph_title_*,
label_* and legend_* options are available now anyway,
and I've provided several extra options for adjusting how the text looks. In
total, there are around 40 new options in this version.
TagCanvas 1.14
This version adds support for assigning tooltips to the tags in the cloud.
Tooltips are turned off by default, so the tooltip option is
there to turn it on and specify the method to use. The option supports three
values: null being the default with no tooltips,
native to use tooltips provided by the operating system and
div to use a custom div element that can then be styled using
CSS.
Both options work by copying the contents of the title
attribute from the tag links, and using it as the tooltip text. The
native option works by changing the title
attribute of the canvas when the mouse enters or leaves a tag. This works
quite well in most browsers, though it doesn't work at all in Opera and
only works when the mouse first enters the canvas in FireFox. Which is
why I also added the div method.
SVGGraph 2.5.1
Just a quick bugfix for SVGGraph - data values of 0 were messing up the bar display for the StackedBarGraph and HorizontalStackedBarGraph types, so this update fixes it.
Updated files are available from the downloads page.
TagCanvas 1.13
TagCanvas 1.13 only has one obvious change, the addition of an option
to set the cursor type when the mouse is over a tag. The new option is
called activeCursor and is set to "pointer" by default, the
cursor normally used by the browser when hovering over a link.
The changes I still have on my to-do list are quite large, so I wanted to get this small update out of the way first. The updated stand alone and jQuery plugin files are now available on the TagCanvas page.
CRCDropper 3.2
This new version of CRCDropper came about because I wanted to play with some of the things that Windows 7 can do - specifically, displaying progress in the taskbar.
It actually turned out to be really easy: first, make sure the taskbar
button exists, then use the
ITaskbarList3::SetProgressValue
function to set the range and amount completed in one step. When the
process has finished, the taskbar button can be set back to normal using
ITaskbarList3::SetProgressState with TBPF_NOPROGRESS. I like it when things
are this simple.
I've also spent some time cleaning up the progress bars on the dialog, since they didn't seem to be working very consistently. The updated version is available from the downloads page.