Dive Into Dojo Series: Dive Into Dojo GFX
I just wanted to give everyone a heads up about my latest Dive Into Dojo post: Dive Into Dojo GFX!
It's well known that Dojo's DojoX collection is a treasure trove of enterprise-ready, advanced widgets and JavaScript classes that allow you to accomplish difficult tasks with relative ease. One of DojoX's most powerful features is GFX. Let's dive into what GFX is, how to create feature-rich vector drawings with GFX, and how you can start creating vector graphics with GFX today!
Be sure to check it out!
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Before we get started, it's worth me spending a brief moment introducing myself to you. My name is Mark (or @integralist if Twitter happens to be your communication tool of choice) and I currently work for BBC News in London England as a principal engineer/tech...
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Feature detection via JavaScript is a client side best practice and for all the right reasons, but unfortunately that same functionality hasn't been available within CSS. What we end up doing is repeating the same properties multiple times with each browser prefix. Yuck. Another thing we...
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I was incredibly happy when CSS text-overflow: ellipsis (married with fixed width and overflow: hidden was introduced to the CSS spec and browsers; the feature allowed us to stop trying to marry JavaScript width calculation with string width calculation and truncation. CSS ellipsis was also very friendly to...
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Morphing an element between CSS classes is another great trick the MooTools JavaScript library enables you to do. Morphing isn't the most practical use of MooTools, but it's still a trick at your disposal.
Step 1: The XHTML
The block of content that will change is...
how to get the coordination of the group? For a shape, i can use shape.x and shape.y, but group.x and group.y is undefine.