I am using the google maps and place around 800 markers from a db...
Now I have several question for the fine tuning of that map...
http://camodesign.de/stickermap/geomap.php
I am using a styled map - now I'd like to apply a button to hide/show the labels for streets etc... but when I set a style via "map.setOptions({styles: MyStylesArrayShowLabel});" that kills all my markers that have a already been placed. Is there a way to set the style on the fly without destroying the markers?
I have set a background for the map via "mapOptions" to avoid those ugly grey tiles. Is there a way to do this for the streetview pano too?
I had set a full screen panorama of 100% width and height but the streetview seems only
to use 60% even when the rest of the screen show grey. Here I don't really have a clue - is it a bug just on my browser?
(+) was trying to use the info bubble instead of the info window for more style
possibilities but the script was hanging and working too long.. after minutes it put out the result correct... seems the bubble had some problems on massive marker use?
had any one similar experiences with it?
Glad for any other suggestions?
(all markers [excluded the home marker/infowindow] are generated from a db via SQL and PHP)
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I am trying to make a copy of the popular browser game Travian.com. I am currently working on the maps and I was able to get the farms overview image as a png.
What I am trying to accomplish with that map is:
Each element (farm) should be clickable) and redirect to that specific farm page.
As you could see on the map, farms are not just simple squares.
Once I had the farms.png picture, I used on online tool to convert a png into a .svg file. Using a free software, I was able to draw circles around each map to build my svg.
This is the result:
I recently read about canvas and I was wondering if canvas would be a better option in my case rather using svg?
You need to try it yourself and see if it gets redrawn quickly enough that the game is sufficiently responsive for you. If the map is very detailed, the redraw may be too slow and make your game feel slow. You really need to try it and see. If it's too slow for you, then you may need to either:
use bitmap images, or
keep the maps as SVGs, but render them to a Canvas on first load. This way they'll be sharp at whatever resolution screen the user has.
I have been making my own webfont taking as a starting point articles from web designer depot and intridea.
I know different engines render fonts differently and but the issue I'm having is that firefox renders the font higher than chrome - at the size I am displaying the font this is very noticeable (3 or 4 px - which on a button means they're totally misaligned).
I have also referenced Github's octicon documentation - when checking out how octicons compare browser they look great! No noticeable difference as far as I can see. How did they achieve this?
I am using inkscape and have tried a couple of different svg starter templates. Setup is Set width: 1024 and have tried the icons at various sizes with no different outcome. i.e. 512pt square and aligned just under the baseline.
My question is what rules do I need to impliment when creating a webfont to get the smallest difference between browser rendering of the font?
This is a complicated question that involves something called vertical metrics. A font has three sets of these. the first set, found in the 'hhea' table, are generally specific to Mac. The other two sets, found in the 'OS/2' table relate to Windows (and Linux). The idea is to get these values equalized. Our Generator has a feature called oddly enough 'Fix Vertical Metrics' which does a best guess at these. Note that Github used the Generator for finishing their icons.
I know this doesn't relate specifically to SVG fonts, but I'm pretty sure this is where your problems lie. Having different vertical metrics values screws up the baselines across platforms.
Some reading:
http://blog.typekit.com/2010/07/14/font-metrics-and-vertical-space-in-css/
http://webfonts.info//webfonts-know-how/part-1-we-need-talk-about-line-height
http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/wiki/VerticalMetricsRecommendations
There's a webapp, icomoon : http://icomoon.io/app/
It make the job pretty well but you have to test the rendering of the different icons.
They offert a lot of icons if you don't want do design everything.
I had the same problem, and solved it by manually setting the metrics for all three types.
You can see my working solution with screenshots of the settings here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/20609766/955413
I used the Icomoon App to create the Emoji icon font as well as for creating custom icon fonts on a per project basis.
The Icomoon App allows you to do each of the following :
Get one or more icons from several popular icon fonts
Upload other fonts, which may be icon fonts but also regular fonts
Upload SVG files to use as icons
Combine any number of icons from any number of available fonts
Set the UNICODE hex value for whichever characters you need
Export and/or save the font set you create
For more details, see Create webfont with Unicode Supplementary Multilingual Plane symbols.
I'm using Google Earth to display point data as placemarks. The data is on a color-coded scale, and so it's pretty important that they keep their colors (which are set via a series of differently colored icons)
However, Google Earth seems to have a 'feature' whereby it dims some placemarks if they overlap. I can find no reference to this feature, nor any way to avoid it, turn it off, using KML or otherwise.
The question was originally asked here:
https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!topic/earth/DTl6yGLvPvw
Where there are also screenshots of the problem.
Thanks!
I'd like to improve upon jQuery's dialog code by using CSS-sprites, and thus also add animations of the dialog borders.
To do this, i'd like all the artwork to be in 1 png file, a css sprite.
My problem is that in order to support a dialog that maximizes to 2 or 3 monitors, i think i'd have to put 5000px wide / high border graphics in the css sprite file. Because i can't find a way to resize a selected portion of a css sprite image.
Basically i want to resize from the sprite image a region (t,l,w,h) to a DIV or IMG on my page with a different width and height.
I'd like to know, is this even possible? It seems background-position does not support this at all.
I've tried the first solution in How can I scale an image in a CSS sprite, but could not get it to work using that.
I've tried using the new background-size property in conjunction with background-position, but that also does not produce the results i want.
Spent another few hours twiddling with css, but could not get sprites to work for dialogs.
But my animated dialogs don't need many frames (not unless you want to put actual video as a dialog backdrop online), so for the dialog theme i'm designing now i have 8 312x312 png's as frames, 8 requests, 386kb total. Just enough to create a glowing animation for when the dialog is in a "highlighted" state. It's do-able.
I'm using the technique from How can I scale an image in a CSS sprite
See http://mediabeez.ws in about a month for the opensource release of animated dialogs.
I will be developing and testing this standalone component when it's used by my own homegrown CMS, so it will have the ability do be themed, dragged and dropped, things like that.
Is there any program that can convert a file into an animated gif by taking the bytes (whatever I see on an editor is seen) and producing them on frames? Im trying to change a large script I wrote into an image so that if I run it, it looks like as if the code is scrolling. I would use photoshop, if I knew how to use it. Even then, the code is really big, so I dont want to be doing it frame by frame.
Whatever you see on the editor screen is ... a screenfull, so why not a screen capture program like http://www.faststone.org/FSCaptureDetail.htm
However, I suspect that you want to convert the entire file to a gif, since you talk of scrolling. Is that so?
If so, be aware that animated GIFs are limited to 8 frames, so you might want to convert to another movie format.
You could, for instance, Google for "text to MPEG". If nothing does it directly, get something that adds subtitles & make your video a solid white background *or match your webpage).
Maybe simpler is something like this ...
A Scrolling Text Applet - Now Free. - Provide an animated look and feel to your web pages. Scrolling Text is a Java applet that will automatically size itself to the available area given to it by the HTML form via the WIDTH and HEIGHT properties of the APPLET tag. There are many configurable features of this applet including title, colors, font size and style, border width and color, graphics, background images etc.
Configurable parameters including;
Background Color - Define your desired background color
Title - If you want a stationary title then include this parameter
Font Size and Style - All text can have it's own Font size and style
Text Color - Specify the color of the text with this one
Border Width and Color - If you require a border then define it with these 2 parameters
Scroll Speed - Customise the Scroll Speed
Display Time - Vary the Display time of each page
This applet is easy to implement and configure and along with the example and help files you should have no trouble implementing your own customised Scrolling Text in your web pages. No understanding of java programming is required, everything is adjusted by parameters in the HTML tags.
Now FREE.
+1 for an interesting question.