TagCanvas 1.10
Published
There are only a couple of changes in this new version of TagCanvas, but one of them is fairly important. The lesser one is an update to the mouse movement handler to make sure that the tags are always highlighted correctly - in previous versions TagCanvas would store its position at startup and use it to calculate where the mouse was, but now it checks each time the mouse moves over the canvas. This means anything moving the canvas itself should not mess up the tag selection.
The second change is slightly more visible, and changes the way the text is
converted to images when the txtOpt mode is enabled (which is by
default on browsers that support it). A new option, txtScale is
used to create a higher resolution version of the tag text, so that when the
tag is "nearer" to the front it doesn't look too blocky. The default value of
2 means that the text is doubled in size on the image, which should give the
tags smooth-looking text in most cases.
If you are using extreme values for the zoom or
depth options, then values of 3 or 4 (or somewhere in between)
may give a better result. On the other hand, if you want the text to look
like it was rendered by a ZX Spectrum with a faulty RF modulator, values
below 1 will make the text look consistently awful. To download the new
version, please visit the TagCanvas page.