Re: [Rails-devel] Support Needed: New complex Tiles and Maps

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

John: Thanks a lot for your code. Great reference.

Question: Is there anything you might have done different in hindsight?

And: You are right, writing to Swing is an option.
However I expect that any suitable Java svg libraries with support for 
Swing allow the creation of a svg file by writing to a Graphics2D 
object. So if java as the implementation language switching from svg to 
direct painting will be nearly transparent.

Stefan

On 04/26/2014 02:09 PM, John A. Tamplin wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 8:09 PM, brett lentz <bre...@gm...
> <mailto:bre...@gm...>> wrote:
>
>     If you're willing to contribute your Perl and/or Java code under the
>     GPL v2+ license that Rails uses, we can probably make use of it.
>     Posting the code to the list is a reasonable way to start.
>
>
> Attached is my perl code and sample data.  Of course the files reference
> fonts that I own but can't redistribute - it should be easy enough to
> substitute them (and you probably don't care so much about the fonts for
> on-screen use).  You are free to redistribute it (or any derived work)
> under any open-source license you like if it is useful to you.
>   Initially the perl was pretty much a direct port of the Delphi code,
> but of course it diverged significantly from there as I changed it to
> meet my requirements.
>
> To add SVG support to the existing code, you would want to write an SVG
> subclass of RenderTile similar to RenderTilePS.  Note that there is a
> lot of PS used in various places, such as annotations on tiles, that you
> would also have to find some way of representing.  Also, I'm not sure
> how you would deal with the text metrics stuff to layout the text
> properly, but again maybe you don't care if it isn't perfect.
>
> Instead of SVG, you could also have a Swing renderer implementation and
> cut out the extra step if you liked.
>
> --
> John A. Tamplin
>
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