TagCanvas 1.18
Published
This version of TagCanvas mainly fixes a couple of bugs. First, the "colour" highlight mode looked quite bad when selecting tags near the back of the cloud, so now they are drawn with full opacity.
The second bug was incorrect mouse position calculations when the page has CSS margins on the HTML tag. This was reported to me via Shad Laws, who has created a Gallery 3 module using TagCanvas, and also modified TagCanvas with an option to move differently in response to the mouse.
The last bug was related to image shadows, where the shadow blur width was causing the image to be scaled down. Scaled images with shadows were also being drawn unscaled and ended up cropped - this version fixes both of these related bugs.
Finally, I've adapted the lock option to add a third way of using
it - setting it to "xy" will now prevent the cloud moving in response to the
mouse, though the tags will still activate when you move the mouse over them.
That may sound useless, but when used in conjunction with the
initial option you can have a cloud that rotates constantly
in one direction with selectable tags, one step down from the
noMouse option which doesn't let you select tags.
In other news, my quest to reduce the length of the pages on this site continues with the once-gargantuan TagCanvas page now split up into smaller chunks. So if you spot a broken link, please let me know.