Re: svg/xforms calculator sample (and some smaller test cases)

a mistake.. it should have been xf:extension..

The corrected version has been posted. Thanks!

Note: for those without svg or xforms enabled for some reason (or for those 
with linux libart problems), there is a screenshot here: 
http://artforms.progressivex.com/mozilla/calc.png
-Andrew

"smaug" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> What is the <xf:external> element?
>
>
> Andrew Douglas wrote:
>> this is the same functionality as the xforms calc program but uses svg 
>> elements to fire the xforms events. There are a couple of little issues 
>> (like I want to implement the "." and SquareRoot button and I want to get 
>> a nice rollover/mousedown effect, etc. I'd like to add xforms validation 
>> and keyboard support as well, but that'll come in time).
>>
>> The biggest "hack" in there right now is outputting the xforms instance 
>> data inside the SVG interface. Namely, xforms binding isn't supported for 
>> svg elements and I couldn't use xforms binding inside an svg 
>> foreignObject element.. even though "hardcoding" the <xf:output> works.. 
>> it won't bind. See sample02 and sample04 for how I wish it would have 
>> worked. Suggestions for how to do this in script are welcome as well, but 
>> for now there's not javascript anywhere.
>>
>> I'm open to suggestions for how you would have implemented the display of 
>> the "Result" and "Memory" fields.. or any other suggestions too. Note: 
>> I'm not an artist/designer.. so I apologize if the svg isn't "all it 
>> could be."
>>
>> If I get really ambitious it'd be interesting to see if I could break out 
>> the xform actions and the UI so that you could plug in either an SVG or 
>> XHTML output (possibly dependent on if svg is available?)
>>
>> http://artforms.progressivex.com/mozilla/svgcalc.xml
>>
>> http://artforms.progressivex.com/mozilla/sample02.xml
>> http://artforms.progressivex.com/mozilla/sample04.xml
>>
>> http://artforms.progressivex.com/mozilla/sample01.xml  -- I posted this 
>> early as a proof of concept of having xforms output inside an svg element 
>> (using svg's foreignObject)
>>
>> http://artforms.progressivex.com/mozilla/sample03.xml -- silly test of 
>> xf:extension to output svg. It works, but I don't know how useful this 
>> is.
>>
>> you need xforms and svg support enabled in your browser to view these 
>> properly. I can post a screenshot of it if you wanna see but don't have 
>> it and don't want to get one. Just let me know.
>>
>> -Andrew
>>