Hier eine kurze Zusammenstellung von Paperbacks mit besonders aufwendigen Einbänden, die einem den Hauch der großen Denker in die eigenen Ideen wehen lassen (vielen Dank an Christina Brand für die Auswahl):

Pfaff hat eine neue Maschinenserie herausgebracht, mit der man eigene Motive am Touchscreen gestalten oder per USB (und entsprechender Software) hochladen und auf Textilien aufsticken bzw. nähen kann. Dabei sollen sich sogar eigene Vektorzeichnungen sticken ider nähen lassen. Mehr dazu auf der Produktseite zu creative sensation™.

So let’s build the library by ourself:

1. Download the source archive (Note: the project moved from Google Code to github).
2. Unpack it to a folder.
3. In Flash Builder 4 select “File” > “New” > “Flex Library-Project”
4. Enter a name (e.g. “as3corelib”)
5. Select the directory of the unpacked projects
6. Select in the section “Flex SDK-Version” Flex 4.1 (or higher), if this is not your standard SDK.
7. And this is important: Select “Include AIR-Runtime-Libraries” – otherwise you’ll get include errors
8. Click on the “Done” button
9. Now you’ve got a brand new Flex library project
10. Launch the “application” by “Run” > “Run main”
11. This should result to a fresh compiled “as3corelib.swc” in your bin path of the unpacked as3corelib source archive

So how to achieve the automatic on-demand start-up of MoinMoin.

Open a console (Terminal) and create a launchd .plist File in one of the launchd startup directories:

sudo vim /Library/LaunchAgents/in.moinmoin.wikiserver.plist

The content of this file should be (assuming you extracted the MoinMoin archive to /Applications/moin):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
 <dict>
 <key>Label</key>
 <string>in.moinmoin.wikiserver</string>
 <key>ProgramArguments</key>
 <array>
 <string>/Applications/moin/wikiserver.py</string>
 </array>
 <key>Sockets</key>
 <dict>
 <key>MoinMoin</key>
 <dict>
 <key>SockFamily</key>
 <string>IPv4</string>
 <key>SockServiceName</key>
 <string>8080</string>
 </dict>
 </dict>
 <key>RunAtLoad</key>
 <false/>
 <key>OnDemand</key>
 <true/>
 <key>LaunchOnlyOnce</key>
 <true/>
 </dict>
</plist>

If you want to launch your configuration now (at next system startup it’s done automatically) just enter:

launchctl load /Library/LaunchAgents/in.moinmoin.wikiserver.plist

In Apache FOP 1.0 a convenience feature for XSL-FO to PDF rendering was added: automatic detection and use of fonts. This can be fonts registered by the operating system or fonts lying in directories you point at by mentioning them in the FOP configuration file. But if you want to use the auto feature, you have to tell FOP to use your configuration file, even it’s the standard configuration in <fop directory>/conf/fop.xconf – often forgetting the -c parameter and wondering why your fonts are not detected costs endless hours.

To use costum-fonts just add the following (just one or both sections, as you need it) to your fop.xconf under the <fonts> node:

<!-- use fonts located in a special directory -->
<directory>/Library/Fonts</directory>

<!-- automatically detect operating system installed fonts -->
<auto-detect/>

Runnig the auto-detection font feature can result in a huge memory consumption by fop building it’s font cache file (~.fop/fop-fonts.cache). If you get the message: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space – try this options (entered in a shell just before you start FOP or add this to the FOP start script):

export FOP_OPTS='-Xmx512m'

or if that doesn’t work, then

export FOP_OPTS='-Xmx1024m'

Die Webfont API von Monotype ist fertig. Damit lassen sich per REST Schriften von Monotype in Webseiten einbinden; 3000 Schriften lassen sich für max. 25000 Seitenaufrufe abrufen. Zu Monotype gehört auch der bekannte Schriftenhersteller Linotype. Link: Fonts.com Web Fonts.

]]> http://reality-and-a-half.multiversum.com/2010/08/open-web-fonts-auf-der-typecon-2010/feed/ 0 http://reality-and-a-half.multiversum.com/2010/07/3d-hd-camcorder-von-panasonic/ http://reality-and-a-half.multiversum.com/2010/07/3d-hd-camcorder-von-panasonic/#comments Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:18:46 +0000 Mike http://reality-and-a-half.multiversum.com/?p=228 Panasonic bringt im September den HDC-SDT750 Camcorder auf den Markt. Wesentliches Highlight ist die 3D Funktion, mit der durch eine Vorsatzlinse jeweils zwei Bilder parallel aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven aufgezeichnet werden. Mit Standard 3D Fernsehern und Abspielgeräten lassen sich die Filme anschauen. Der Einführungspreis soll bei € 1399 liegen.

Here are my steps:

1. Set up the mouse handlers on the chart compound – the most important is the mouseMove event since it is fired everytime the user moves the mouse upon the chart. the over and out Handlers are only for switching the visibility of the DataTip or other objects. I don’t mention them further

   mouseMove="mouseChartHandler(event)" mouseOver="mouseInHandler(event)" mouseOut="mouseOutHandler(event)"

2. Setup functions to hande the events

   private function mouseChartHandler(event:MouseEvent):void { .... }

   private  function mouseInHandler(event:MouseEvent):void { .... }

    private function mouseOutHandler(event:MouseEvent):void { .... }

3. Inside the mouseMove handler function do the following steps:
   1. Define a vertical strip (e.g. 5 px broad) from the top to the bottom with the actual mouse x coordinate
   2. Use the chart series findDataPoints function to capture the item beneath or above the mouse pointer
   3. Use the resulting HitItem to instantiate a DataTip instance (or whatever you need)

That’s it. Easy if one has digged through the bunch of class and function definitions…

Ok, let’s give some code for practical reasons – so here is the code for the mouseMove handler

		private function mouseChartHandler(event:MouseEvent):void {
			// define a region for the findDataPoint function
			var sensitiveRegion:Rectangle = new Rectangle( event.stageX-5, 0, 10, this.document.height);   

            var hitItems:Array = new Array();

            if (event.currentTarget.name =! "lineChart") return;

            for each ( var chartItem:ChartItem in lineChart.getItemsInRegion( sensitiveRegion ) ) {
            	if ( chartItem.element.name == "seriesMean" ) {
            		var item:LineSeriesItem = chartItem as LineSeriesItem;

            		var xTime:Date = item.xValue as Date;
            		var yVal:Number = item.yValue as Number;

            		var dataPoints:Array = seriesMean.findDataPoints( item.x, item.y, 2 );

            		var hitItem:HitData = dataPoints[0];//new HitData( new Date().getMilliseconds()*Math.random(), 1, item.x, item.y, chartItem);

			if (hitItem) {
                  		hitItems.push( hitItem );

						// Add DataTip to stage if not existing
						if ( !this.stageFlyout ) {
							this.stageFlyout = this.addChild( flyout );
						} 

	            		flyout.x = hitItem.x + 60;
	            		flyout.hitData = hitItem;

					}

            	}
            }

Remark: I use a custom DataTip renderer which I instanciated previous as this.stageFlyout

Now you have a DataTip showing everytime the mouse is moving on the chart. To avoid showing both the custom triggered DataTip and the chart’s provided you can either switch the visibility to false if the chart’s built-in DataTip handler shows his info or you simply turn the showDataTips property of the chart compound of ( in MXML showDataTips=”false” ).

So please tell me if I should explain the solution further. Or perhaps you have another one – I would be pleased to add it here . Simply use the comment function.