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Sunday, 1. April 2007, 05:18:41
I tried my hand at scripting in SVG and it's not working out. Apparently freestyling just isn't possible. My scripting mojo is incredibly low, near non-existant. If any one wants to play with my SVG file, it's attached. Please don't laugh at my lack of scripting... 
Anyway, moving on to things in my life. There are three concerts that I'm going to attend coming up. Blonde Redhead in 2 weeks at the Magic Stick in Detroit and exactly a month later, Cursive (this will be the third time I've seen them) at the State Theatre in Detroit. I'm looking forward to that one immensely. And they are playing with a hardcore band (These Arms Are Snakes) and I've never actually let loose at a hardcore show...what better time than at a Cursive show?
And the third concert isn't definite yet but there is some talk of my friends and I going to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago for 4 days in July which should be amazing. Hotels aren't THAT expensive and supposedly we're going to split the bill 4 ways which is even better. Down side...I'll have to probably sleep in a bed with another guy. Oh well, I'll probably be drunk every night so I won't care. As much.
One month left of classes at Macomb before I make my return to Oakland and I'm really looking forward to that. That, and working! I've been so bored! That's only mildly corralated with only 12 credit hours, more to do with being alone...all the time. But that's a whole other topic *nervous laugh*.
I've been listening to the album "Black Out" by The Good Life (Cursive singers side project...as if people care) a lot lately and it's definitely growing on me. "O'Rourke's 1:20 a.m.", "Empty Bed", "I am an Island", and my favorite song off of it, "Don't Make Love so Hard". I mentioned my love of The Good Life previously in a blog on myspace but I can't get over how amazing they are.
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Anyway, moving on to things in my life. There are three concerts that I'm going to attend coming up. Blonde Redhead in 2 weeks at the Magic Stick in Detroit and exactly a month later, Cursive (this will be the third time I've seen them) at the State Theatre in Detroit. I'm looking forward to that one immensely. And they are playing with a hardcore band (These Arms Are Snakes) and I've never actually let loose at a hardcore show...what better time than at a Cursive show?
And the third concert isn't definite yet but there is some talk of my friends and I going to the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago for 4 days in July which should be amazing. Hotels aren't THAT expensive and supposedly we're going to split the bill 4 ways which is even better. Down side...I'll have to probably sleep in a bed with another guy. Oh well, I'll probably be drunk every night so I won't care. As much.
One month left of classes at Macomb before I make my return to Oakland and I'm really looking forward to that. That, and working! I've been so bored! That's only mildly corralated with only 12 credit hours, more to do with being alone...all the time. But that's a whole other topic *nervous laugh*.
I've been listening to the album "Black Out" by The Good Life (Cursive singers side project...as if people care) a lot lately and it's definitely growing on me. "O'Rourke's 1:20 a.m.", "Empty Bed", "I am an Island", and my favorite song off of it, "Don't Make Love so Hard". I mentioned my love of The Good Life previously in a blog on myspace but I can't get over how amazing they are.
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orinoco # 2. April 2007, 17:39
I'm on it!!!
orinoco # 2. April 2007, 18:36
You were on the right track with the script, unfortunately it is the auto generated code from Inkscape that gets in the way. Had you stripped out all the individual style elements on each path & added 'evt' to your function calls you would have been there.
Another tip: you can cut Inkscape filesizes by often over a quarter by rounding all the dimensions in the paths from 5 to 1 decimal place without losing any noticeable image quality (your original file was 34kb, the new one with the added scripts & instruction elements is 25kb). I wrote a simple javascript tool to automate this - just copy & paste your paths (as many as you like) into the text area click round, then copy the results back & save.
Quite why Inkscape feels 5dp is necessary I'm not sure, & I've yet to find an option to reduce the level of accuracy.
Keep up the great work. You'll notice a theme with all my SVG projects is that the SVG is either:
a) simple
b) crap
c) stolen from somebody talented
There are thousands of us scripters who can add interactivity to SVG files, people like you who can produce quality SVG artwork in the first place are a rarity!
I'll also keep an eye out for The Good Life, (to us Brits The Good Life was a popular sitcom from the '70s!) although US Indie rock doesn't always make it to my side of the Atlantic I've followed up on a number of recommendations from MyOpera community members before & been rewarded for it.
Mike # 3. April 2007, 05:33