Comments on: DENG 2.0

By: Lawrence Bansbach

Lawrence Bansbach — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:22:03 +0000

Claus:

It seems that in Flash 8 Macromedia really hasn’t improved the text-formatting capabilities of dynamic textfields. Do you have any plans to implement such improvements (eg, support for baseline shifting) in DENG 2.0? One possibility — although a hideous kludge — would be to implement superscripts and subscripts via sIFR (the text in the SUP and SUB siFR .fla files would be formatted as superscripts and subscripts, respectively). Then DENG could pass these elements to sIFR for rendering. I could even imagine that the font-family and font-size values might be dynamically passed to sIFR. Unfortunately, sIFR is currently not supported from within DENG.

Larry

By: Claus Wahlers

Claus Wahlers — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:42:54 +0000

Hi Rich,

i’m very sorry that the DENG website is down. It should be back up soon.

DENG renders SVG quite well (shapes etc), support for text is rather minimal though. If you intend to render SVG exported from Illustrator, you have to make sure that no entities are used (DENG doesn’t support entities).

cheers,
claus.

By: Rich Oren

Rich Oren — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:13:21 +0000

Hello all,

I am new to DENG and I am having a hard time finding information. I cannot seem to get to your website. I keep getting PHP errors. I am working on a project involving Flash and SVG I would like to diplay a complete SVG file saved from Adobe Illustrator. I need to parse the
tags and the tags to extract the data into textfield objects for editing but would also like to diplay the complete document with images, shapes and text flows.

Is this possible with DENG? If not is there anyone out there that would like to freelance or contract to build a SVG Rendering Class? If so please contact me for more information.

Thank you for any assistance,

Rich

By: Lawrence Bansbach

Lawrence Bansbach — Sun, 29 May 2005 05:10:12 +0000

Oops, I had a brain spasm — I meant to designate the discretionary hyphen as “.”

By: Lawrence Bansbach

Lawrence Bansbach — Sun, 29 May 2005 04:56:42 +0000

Will greater text formatting — that is, more XHTML elements and CSS1 properties — be supported in DENG 2.0? Or will this depend on whether Flash 8 supports it? I was thinking in particular of support for , , and vertical-align, but implementation that didn’t wreak havoc on line spacing as all browser implementations currently do ( and , unless accommodated with extra line spacing, tend to screw up line spacing within a text block). I was even hoping for discretionary hyphenation (), although there is considerable controversy as to whether was ever intended to indicate an end-of-line hyphenation point (but otherwise remain invisible).

By: Claus Wahlers

Claus Wahlers — Wed, 18 May 2005 13:10:28 +0000

(1) If you want to integrate DENG into commercial applications, you either have to release the rest of your application’s code under GPL or buy a commercial DENG license.
(2) The Flash based UGO XForms renderer (DENG 2.0) will most likely be released under GPL, although the final decision has not yet been made.
cheers,
Claus.

By: Bruce Raggett

Bruce Raggett — Sun, 15 May 2005 06:38:56 +0000

Hello Claus,
Thank you for the article on Deng 2.0. I will follow the UGO initiative with interest.
Could you also answer the following questions for me?
(1) I am currently developing a commercial application for a client and would like the application to have an XForms front-end in Flash. Can the application use Deng 1.0 as the front-end, as the application I am selling is not licensed under a GPL licence?
(2) Will the UGO products be licensed under a GPL licence or some other license?
Many thanks,
Bruce.