How to pronounce Eidolon…
Some of you have asked how Eidolon should be pronounced… try Eye-dolon. Dave
Some of you have asked how Eidolon should be pronounced… try Eye-dolon. Dave
I’ve eventually got around to working on a true clipping engine for Eidolon. The current mechanism for clipping shapes simple just compresses them until they fit into the viewing window (if they appear in there in the first place). The new clipping engine will actually chop the shape off at the boundaries so that there… Read More »
Here’s another idea for improving the Time Locations presentation and that is to take advantage of Excel’s ability to render Arrows, Circles and Diamonds on the ends of lines. Excel defines the following “Arrow” types: Each of these different arrow type have different sizes. An example follows: What I’m suggested as an improvement is to… Read More »
In the current release of Eidolon (1.0a [Build 1.0.1.1280]) there is a bug which only allows you to get text locations from time location drawings rendered in Korax. There is a simple workaround for this until I release the next version (hopefully at the end of Mar 2010). At the top of a time location… Read More »
Just a very quick note, I’ve released a first update for Eidolon with some improvements in the Time Location Rendering dialogue and fixing some minor bugs. Please refer to the History section of the Eidolon home page for more details. You will also notice that I’ve complete the re-write of the help. Its not 100%… Read More »
Some of you are sitting behind corporate firewalls and this might have an adverse effect on the first time functionality of Eidolon. By default Eidolon will check for updates on the internet at start-up and there after every 28 days. What should happen is that if Eidolon can not connect to the internet then the… Read More »
It was suggested to me the other day that Eidolon’s installation was possibly too complicated for some, so the next release will use a setup programme to install and register Eidolon with the system. The same rules will apply for the installation, i.e. you will need to be either a PowerUser or and Administrator to… Read More »
In September last year I held a workshop on Korax to get those unfamiliar with the package up to speed. At that session I probably mentioned that was wanted to rewrite the software properly and at last Eidolon is here (http://www.davidghoyle.co.uk/eidolon.html). At that same workshop there were a number of time location examples, some from… Read More »