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Re: [Ann] DragPanels: Floating palette windows with drag-and-drop in Morphic

Posted by Hannes Hirzel on Jun 29, 2015; 12:30pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Ann-DragPanels-Floating-palette-windows-with-drag-and-drop-in-Morphic-tp4834283p4834591.html

On 6/29/15, Nicolai Hess <[hidden email]> wrote:

> 2015-06-29 12:55 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhnák <[hidden email]>:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 12:16 PM, Stephan Eggermont <[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29-06-15 10:26, Hannes Hirzel wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thank you, Stephan, for providing a well worked out example continuing
>>>> where
>>>> Morphic tutorials normally end. This is a real need to unearth
>>>> functions
>>>> which have been there fore years but mostly unused.
>>>>
>>>> The two video clips document the use cases of the code nicely.
>>>>
>>>> A question not answered yet is: How do I export the panel with the
>>>> cards
>>>> as
>>>> an SVG file?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hmm. What would be the best way to do that?
>>> - I assume in Bloc with Cairo I should be able to use an SVGCanvas?
>>>
>>
>> I thought that this was already possible with Morph>>drawOnAthensCanvas:
>>
>
> That does not imply it can be used to generate svg elements on the fly.
> Athens  backend is based on a vector "drawing" library that does not
> mean it can generate any vector drawing files ...
> luckily, cairo can ! And with just a couple of native function  calls,

What are these calls?

we
> can
> add this support to athens (see attached svg images)


Unfortunately the svg file does not contain the text of the cards.
E.g. searching for 'Test2' gives no result.