{"id":189,"date":"2009-03-19T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/?p=189"},"modified":"2009-03-19T11:45:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T19:45:37","slug":"finally-visable-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Visable Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally you can have your connections and eat them too. Or see them anyway. I&#8217;ve selected a nice red dashed line for the &#8220;pre-connection&#8221; wire. I hope you like it. In this version (0.1.99) I&#8217;ve also fixed some problems that cropped up when I created the lines.\u00c2\u00a0 For modules that were in front of other modules (z depth), when you dragged the wire over the left input area of the intended module, it wouldn&#8217;t activate the input area -I think because the line (which is part of the first module) was in front of it.\u00c2\u00a0 So&#8230;now, when you start a new connection, it moves the parent module down to the bottom of the display stack. When just dragging a module, I decided to pull it up to the top of the stack.<\/p>\n<p>I played briefly writing my own dashed line class, and actually wrote a very simple function that drew the connecting line with 10 equally sized dashes and spaces (which scaled as you drew it), but then I found the wonderful dashed line class below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/drawing-dashed-lines-with-actionscript-3\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/blog\/drawing-dashed-lines-with-actionscript-3\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"swf51c41\">This movie requires Flash Player 9<\/div>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\tswfobject.embedSWF(\"source\/neattools26.swf\", \"swf51c41\", \"400\", \"400\", \"9.0.0\", \"\", {}, {wmode: \"window\", menu: \"false\", quality: \"high\", bgcolor: \"#FFFFFF\", allowScriptAccess: \"always\"}, {});\n<\/script>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally you can have your connections and eat them too. Or see them anyway. I&#8217;ve selected a nice red dashed line for the &#8220;pre-connection&#8221; wire. I hope you like it. In this version (0.1.99) I&#8217;ve also fixed some problems that cropped up when I created the lines.\u00c2\u00a0 For modules that were in front of other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sambaker.net\/neattools\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}