SPARK - SVG Programmers Application Resource Kit

SVG Programmers' Application Resource Kit
Contents: SPARK Administration Contact License News Resources API Documentation Downloads FAQ Samples SPARK SVG News: September 2005 Package concept added to framework... August 2005 SVG Open presentation... July 2005 CVS update... June 2005 Framework patches released... New widget and application... New FlowLayout widget... March 2005 SPARK has moved to SourceForge... September 2004 Third generation widgets released... Web site updated including documentation... SPARK Presentation at SVG Open 2004 May 2004 "How-to" documentation added to FAQ section... More news...	SPARK News 2005 September 1, 2005 Package Concept Added to Framework A question about conflicting widget names was raised at SVG Open. In response to this concern, the concept of packages was introduced to the framework. Thanks to Seth Raphael for the question and Jan-Klaas Kollhof for the ECMAScript implementation suggestion. If you've got questions, comments or suggestions for the SPARK Framework, please let us know! August 18, 2005 SVG Open 2005 Presentation Christopher Lewis had the chance to attend the SVG Open this year in Enschede, The Netherlands. Chris presented a paper he wrote on his experiences porting his CGUI widget toolkit to the SPARK framework. Visit the SVG Open 2005 website to view Chris' abstract and paper. June 24th, 2005 CVS Update There has been a major overhaul of the SPARK CVS archive. Feel free to browse our archives here. June 27th, 2005 Framework Patches The framework downloads have been patched for both the widgets package and the helpers package. The source for the widgets created by will be patched in the near future. You can download the patched versions here: frameworkpackage.zip helperspackage.zip June 25th, 2005 JogDial Widget and Etch-A-Sketch Application There are two new developments on the SPARK applicaiton front. Christopher Lewis has authored a new widget called a jogdial widget. In conjunction with this, Alastair Fettes has authored an application of this widget in the form of an Etch-A-Sketch application. Alastair has also release an alpha version of his textbox. Demo this application at Etch-A-Sketch Application. June 7th, 2005 FlowLayout Widget A new flowlayout widget has been created through a modification to the legacy graph node widget. View the demo - FlowLayout widget demo. March 26th, 2005 SPARK has moved to SourceForge Due to the recent sale of SchemaSoft, the SPARK project has found a new home on SourceForge. We will slowly be migrating everything to the new setup - please bear with us. We would however like to take this time to thank SchemaSoft; in particular Philip Mansfield and Raduz Benicky for their gracious hosting at SchemaSoft in the past. Good luck with the new venture! 2004 September 26th, 2004 Third Generation Widgets Released Today Alastair Fettes has made available his latest version of widgets. The changes include full conformance to the framework described in the SVG Open 2004 paper as well as a large number of bug fixes. Also a demonstration application has been created to demonstrate how an application may be connected with the widget framework. These may all be found in the samples page. September 25th, 2004 Website Updated The SPARK website has had a large number of updates completed. These include addition of a documentation section as well as updating the information contained on most of the other pages as well. This has been done to ensure that the information available is as up to date as possible for the general public. September 9th, 2004 SPARK Presentation at SVG Open 2004 Alastair Fettes and Philip Mansfield had the opportunity to present the results of SPARK project at the SVG Open Conference and Exhibition 2004 in Tokyo Japan. Thank-you to all who attended and showed their support. Abstract Submitted Paper Presentation May 18th, 2004 How-To's Created and Added to FAQ Section A number of how-to's have been created and added to the FAQ section of the site. They contain a step-by-step process for creating widgets, for skinning widgets and for creating applications that all follow the SPARK framework. The new how-to's are: Create an Atom Create a Container These also have associated demonstration widgets. They are as follows: Moveable Button GraphNode GraphNode version 2 - Binary Tree April 27, 2004 Imroved Widget Demonstration Alastair has been working hard at solidifying the SPARK framework and creating more useful widget examples. You can find a list of the new and improved demonstration widgets here: simpleExample.svg April 19, 2004 Initial draft of SPARK proposed An initial copy of a SPARK specification was submitted by Alastair Fettes today. In the report Alastair outlined a possible SPARK framework. It also contains a very simple application created using sample widgets that follow the proposed framework. Comments are encouraged and please note this is not a complete draft. SPARKv1.zip - submission includes report and sample app. draft.html - report only. simpleExample.svg - sample app that follows the documented framework. simpleExample2.svg - sample app with a different CSS - skinning example. 2003 November 25th, 2003 SVG Version of SPARK Site An SVG version of the SPARK Site created by Chris Peto was placed online today. Currently this site only works using the Adobe SVG Viewer. SPARK SVG September 26th, 2003 SPARK-List Mailing List The SPARK Group now has a dedicated email list. Feel free to sign up and keep up to date all SPARK developments. [SPARK-List] July 30, 2003 SPARK SVG Open Presentation. The vision and goals of SPARK were presented at the SVG OPEN 2003 conference in Vancouver, B.C. and seemed to spark interest in the project. SPARK Design 1.0 is now underway with the help of some new friends. Look for it soon! SVG Open Proceedings March 25, 2003 Chris Peto, Resource Solutions, joins the SPARK team today. Chris has made impressive extensions to the CGUI library since it's initial release as part of his SVG Editor. A demo is available at www.resource-solutions.de/svgeditor. January 28, 2003 An early demo created by Glenn MacDonald. A skinable SVG UI demo. Download January 7, 2003 Christopher Lewis has announced an official release of the Genome Browser. This is a very important step for the SPARK project as the Genome Browser is the first "example of a working application enabled by the toolkit". It can be viewed at brassica.agr.gc.ca. 2002 November 27, 2002 Dr. Michael Levy has expressed an interest in being part of the SPARK project. November 1, 2002 SPARK gets a name - SVG Programmers Application Resource Kit. October 31, 2002 SVG Open Source project planned. This project is to lay out implementation standards for SVG Programming, such as an API and conventions for a ECMAScript/SVG GUI component framework. The initial founders are Christopher Lewis of the University of Saskatchewan and Dr. Philip Mansfield of SchemaSoft Inc.	Quick Links: API CVS Downloads FAQ License SPARK Mailing List SPARK Sourceforge SVG Links: W3C SVG SVG Open svg.org SVG Foundation SVG Viewers: Adobe Corel Apache CSIRO Ionic Koala Mozilla X-Smiles Sponsors:

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