Coming soon to Eidolon…

By | May 25, 2011

Surprisingly enough, having used Eidolon in anger for the first time, I found a number of bugs and some features that I thought would be useful.

The bugs have been fixed and released in the 1.2b version this last weekend. However, here a list of the features that I’m currently implementing and hopefully will be released before the end of June.

Line Ends

The idea is to simply extend the current LINE type and allow you to specify the type and size of the line ends (Arrows, Diamonds, etc). It will be backwardly compatible so that your existing code will not break if you do not wish to use this new information. Below is an example, manually drawing in Excel:

The reason I wanted this was to define areas of the Time Location with double ended arrows and a label, and not have to keep adding them each time the drawing was re-rendered.

BUT I here you cry, I don't want to see those in the Time Location Legend… So here's the second feature.

Configuration of the Time Location Symbols and Legend

I have plans to implement 3 additional mechanism for controlling this information from within the Time Location Rendering Dialogue as follows:

  • The ability to switch on and off which symbols are plotted on the dialogue without having to modify the MAP file;
  • The ability to select which symbols are output on the Legend, i.e. so annotations are not shown;
  • The ability to order the symbols in the Legend independently of the order they appear in the MAP file. NOTE: The MAP file will still determine the rendering order of the symbols on the diagram.

The last one above is actually the hardest to implement and I haven't quite worked out the best way to handle this, but hopefully by the end of next month I'll have solved this.

🙂
Dave.