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SVG Section out of date? (Read 1637 times)
JM Davis
SVG Section out of date?
Dec 12th, 2009, 3:40pm  
I'm going through Chapter 10 of the book (Visualizing Data), page 320 on SVG and it references the library "processing.candy.*" but on the main processing site it says that "candy" was incorporated into the core and references "PShape" as the class to use.

Problem is the 2nd program in the SVG section. It loads the SVG Map of the USA and colors states in a manner analogous to chapter 3. However, there are some SVG methods (SVG is a class in candy) that do not appear to be present in PShape. Specifically svg.get(String), which seems to read a part of the SVG file scanning for String and just returns that "sub-shape".

Thing is, this seems like quite a useful thing to have. Is something like it available in the current release? I'd rather not write my own, or hand edit the main US map file extracting each state into it's own file, but if I need to I will.

Thanks in advance!

Mike
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JM Davis
Re: SVG Section out of date?
Reply #1 - Dec 12th, 2009, 4:10pm  
Well... I can't answer if it's out of date or not (guessing yes) but the method that replaces SVG's "get()" is PShape's "getChild()".

So I'm good. Thanks
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fry
Re: SVG Section out of date?
Reply #2 - Jan 20th, 2010, 1:40pm  
Yes, that's correct. Sorry for the confusion. Slowly working on an updated version of the book (if not just the examples).
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