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Wish List: Frame Builder Software
At some point it would make frame creation more efficient to build a software tool to gather frame information using CGI forms and then publish a resulting SVG image and web page data. This would allow more people to create Frames by thinking through a system without also having to have skills in graphic design and vector drawing programs (currently I draw all frames in Inkscape, the free open-source vector drawing program).
Probably the best way to do this would be to make this a WordPress plugin for this site. It could use custom forms as a type of Frame editor and output an SVG file and Codex entry as a result.
The coding would be pretty straight-forward and most of the libraries necessary already exist in PHP. Some may even be available in Javascript. This isn’t really a full scope, but I think the a beginning set of features would include:
- A “wizard” of forms that would walk the user through the frame creation process.
- The user would choose which shape (1-7) they are working with and this would load a template base SVG and a set of questions based on the elements of that shape.
- As the user answers the questions, they are in fact constructing the SVG frame. This could be shown above the current question as it is being filled out.
- Descriptions of each named element world be formated to be added to a CODEX entry upon saving.
- Somehow, existing frames could be loaded into the editor again for updating.
- Maybe the templates used could be easily updated by changing the base SVGs. If the editor changes elements based on the XML id of the element, as long as this remains consistent from template to template, changes between versions wouldn’t be too hard since the complete SVG wouldn’t be drawn by code.
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