The effect is kinda cute.
Can I change the font somewhere or is this hardcoded? My knowledge of Flash is *very* limited.

I had no issues whatsoever installing the thing.

Thanks.

You may try to add style="" to the <a> tag

EDIT: it doesn't change anything, we should play with flash variables

Yes, adding style made thing dissappear.
Also I couldn't set :hover color in Widget settings (not a big deal, but either I'm able to set it or you should remove the setting. ;))
The data field in the source code looks like you're able to apply style there. However what I remember from Flash is that it hardcodes fonts to please some copyrightholders.

--F

tagcloud.swf supports latin letters only and hover color
non-latin_tagcloud.swf supports non-latin and latin letters (tested with Russian only), it does not support hover color

I'll play with tagcloud.swf, but for now you can use either tagcloud or non-latin_tagcloud swf file.

http://evocms-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/evocms-plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/trunk/

It looks great , I like the "hover" effect, however if anyone visits with a Flash blocker of some kind does degrade gracefully ?

It doesn't use swobject so at least you can see it with disabled javascript, for those who don't have flash it displays the regular tag cloud (I hope so ;))

Plugin updated to v0.2

Added new options, fixed hover and language problems.

Plugin updated to v0.3

Tags weren't distributed evenly on sphere

My tags aren't hovering at all...was I supposed to do something with the swf file...all I used out of the download was the plugin itself.

You don't have to change anything unless you use one of listed in the first post Asian languages.
Can you give a link to your blog?

http://www.whatamanjackson.com . . . let me know what think is causing the prob...I have left the other "tag" feature in place..not sure if that is overriding it or not.

Thanks![/url]

The SWF file is missing
http://whatamanjackson.com/blog/plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/tagcloud.swf

Download the plugin again and put the file tagcloud.swf in /blog/plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/

Good luck.

Sweet - Works perfect now! - Thanks

I need to try it.
Is there any demo available ?

slamp wrote:

I need to try it.
Is there any demo available ?

Here it is http://www.whatamanjackson.com/ ;)

I tried adding it to my footer and page top but it''s not showing. Also, where can I insert the words that I need?

It's not showing because your posts don't have tags. "The words" are actually post tags, you can add them on post edit tab.

Got it! Thank you again!

The Flash tag widget works great! Thank you for creating it!

Two questions:

1. Is it possible to get rid of the quotes? Some tags appear with them and some without.

2. Is it possible to use this widget outside of b2evo?

Thanks!

1. The quotes are added if your tag consists of 2 or more words. To get rid of the quotes edit the line 197

// Convert quotes
$tags = str_replace( array('«', '»'), '', $content );

2. Yes. Use this portable version. You must provide a URL to the tagcloud.swf file.

function flash_tags( $params )
{	
	$flash = 'http://www.mysite.com/path_to/tagcloud.swf';
	
	/**
	 * Default params:
	 */
	if(!isset($params['block_start'])) $params['block_start'] = '<div class="flash_tag_cloud">';
	if(!isset($params['block_end'])) $params['block_end'] = "</div>\n";
	if(!isset($params['block_title_start'])) $params['block_title_start'] = '<h3>';
	if(!isset($params['block_title_end'])) $params['block_title_end'] = '</h3>';
	
	if(!isset($params['title'])) $params['title']		= 'Tag cloud';
	if(!isset($params['width'])) $params['width']		= '300';
	if(!isset($params['height'])) $params['height']	= '200';
	if(!isset($params['bgcolor'])) $params['bgcolor']	= '';
	if(!isset($params['tcolor'])) $params['tcolor']	= '';
	if(!isset($params['tcolor2'])) $params['tcolor2']	= '';
	if(!isset($params['hicolor'])) $params['hicolor']	= '';
	if(!isset($params['tspeed'])) $params['tspeed']	= '80';
	if(!isset($params['distr'])) $params['distr']		= 'true';
	if(!isset($params['trans'])) $params['trans']		= true;
	
	// Get tags from param['tags']
	$content = $params['tags'];
	
	if( !empty($content) )
	{	// We have something to display...
		$r  = $params['block_start'];
		$r .= $params['block_title_start'];
		$r .= $params['title'];
		$r .= $params['block_title_end'];
		
		// Convert quotes
		$tags = str_replace( array('&laquo;', '&raquo;'), '"', $content );
		
		$vars = array(
				'tagcloud'	=>	urlencode('<tags>'.$tags.'</tags>'),
				'rnumber'	=>	floor( rand() * 9999999 ),
				'tcolor'	=>	'0x'.$params['tcolor'],
				'tcolor2'	=>	'0x'.$params['tcolor2'],
				'hicolor'	=>	'0x'.$params['hicolor'],
				'tspeed'	=>	$params['tspeed'],
				'distr'		=>	($params['distr']) ? 'true' : 'false',
				'mode'		=>	'tags',
			);
		
		$arr = array();
		foreach( $vars as $k => $v ) $arr[] = $k.'='.$v;
		
		$query = implode( '&amp;', $arr );

		$r .= '<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="'.$flash.'" width="'.$params['width'].'px" height="'.$params['height'].'px">
				<param name="movie" value="'.$flash.'">
				<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">
				<param name="flashvars" value="'.$query.'">';
		$r .= ($params['trans']) ? '<param name="wmode" value="transparent">' : '';
		$r .= ($params['bgcolor'] && !$params['trans']) ? '<param name="bgcolor" value="'.$params['bgcolor'].'">' : '';
		$r .= $content /* display non-flash tags for robots */.'
			  </object>';
		
		$r  .= $params['block_end'];
		
		echo $r;
	}
}

// Example
$tags = '<a href="#" style="font-size:10pt">Flash</a>
		<a href="#" style="font-size:16pt">Tag</a>
		<a href="#" style="font-size:24pt">Cloud</a>';

flash_tags( array(
		'width'	=> 300,
		'height'	=> 300,
		'tags'		=> $tags,
	) );

Woud it be possible to add an "Event date" option when you are writing a new post? (Something similar to the "Entry date"?). This way the event would be viewed from the Calendar by clicking on that date.

Also, is there a way to to desactivate the Entry date so it would not show the entry date in the Calendar? Otherwise, the same event will be linked to the Calendar twice: under the date the event was posted and under the actual date of the event.

Sorry, I meant my post for a different topic.

As for the Fkash tag cloud, thank you so much! The quotes are removed now.

How do I use the portable version? I created a new php file with your code and named it _flash_tag_cloud.plugin.php. Where do I input text for tags now? How do I make this flash tag cloud appear on a blank html page? Thanks a agin!

If you want to display flash tag cloud on somepage.php put the code I wrote above in this file. Then edit the $tags variable and use your own links(tags)

$tags = '<a href="http://my_link.com" style="font-size:10pt">Link text</a>
        <a href="http://my_link.com" style="font-size:16pt">Link text 2</a>
        <a href="http://my_link.com" style="font-size:24pt">Link text 3</a>'; 

When you're done with links, change the width and height of the flash cloud in here

$cloud = flash_tags( array(
        'width'    => 300,
        'height'    => 300,
        'tags'        => $tags,
    ) );

The flash cloud is now stored in $cloud variable, and you can display it in any place on your page using this code

<p>Some text above the cloud</p>
<?php echo $cloud ?>
<p>The other part of your page goes here</p>

You can read about PHP basics here http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.firstpage.php

Great! Thank you so much again!!

I added a sliding window to this plugin, so that it only takes into account the posts of the last X days.

http://www.geencommentaar.nl/tag_cloud_plugin.zip

Thank you! Will try!

How to center the tag cloud? As it is now, it tends to be left-aligned. Thanks!

b2evo: 2.4.6
plugin v0.3 (downloaded from this post) i also note that it showns in the pannel as 0.2

Thanks for this Widget, it looks very nice on my blog, but i do have some questions;

- Using this widget in replace of the regular tag cloud, will allow google and other search engines to "read" the tags and to index the links for the tags?

- I'm trying to enable "cross tags" between all my blogs, but but i really could not understand where should i exactly alter the _flash_tag_cloud_plugin.php. I found this on the code

	/**
	 * Get SQL expression to match the list of aggregates collection IDs.
	 *
	 * This resolves as follows:
	 *  - empty: current blog only
	 *  - "*": all blogs (returns "1" as in "WHERE 1")
	 *  - other: as present in DB
	 *
	 * @param string SQL field name
	 * @return string e.g. "$field IN (1,5)"
	 */
	function get_sql_where_aggregate_coll_IDs( $Blog, $field )
	{
		$aggregate_coll_IDs = $Blog->get_setting('aggregate_coll_IDs');
		if( empty( $aggregate_coll_IDs ) )
		{	// We only want posts from the current blog:
			return " $field = $Blog->ID ";
		}
		elseif( $aggregate_coll_IDs == '*' )
		{
			return " 1 ";
		}
		else
		{	// We are aggregating posts from several blogs:
			return " $field IN ($aggregate_coll_IDs)";
		}
	}
}

but i dont know where exactly to put the "*" can you help me with this?

- And the third point is that i noticed a strange behavior, when i click on a tag in the cloud, sometimes seens like my "theme" breaks and the right bar with the menus (and the cloud) just disappear, but most of the times, works fine

Can you helpme with this 3 questions??

thanks alot!

plugin v0.3 (downloaded from this post) i also note that it showns in the pannel as 0.2

Fixed, thanks for reporting :)

- Using this widget in replace of the regular tag cloud, will allow google and other search engines to "read" the tags and to index the links for the tags?

Yes, the browsers where flash plugin is not installed displays a space-separated list of tags, just like in b2evo tag cloud widget. You can check your page here http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.html

- I'm trying to enable "cross tags" between all my blogs, but but i really could not understand where should i exactly alter the _flash_tag_cloud_plugin.php

If your blog aggregates other blogs, the plugin will display tags from all aggregated blogs, you don't have to edit the code. Basically the code to get and format tags was copied as is from the original tag cloud plugin, so it works the same way.

- And the third point is that i noticed a strange behavior, when i click on a tag in the cloud, sometimes seens like my "theme" breaks and the right bar with the menus (and the cloud) just disappear, but most of the times, works fine

Can you post a link?

igeller wrote:

How to center the tag cloud? As it is now, it tends to be left-aligned. Thanks!

Add this class to your CSS file, and change the width if needed.

.widget_plugin_FlashTagCl {
text-align:left;
width:300px;
margin:auto
}

Thank you! Sorry for asking such simple questions. I just started learning web design. Your help is always very much appreciated.

Hello sam2kb, thanks for the info and for this nice plugin :)

About the strange behavior, since it didnt happened again, i think that it was a problem with my internet connection or browser cache. It is working fine.

Btw, i noticed that the "transparency" option didnt worked for me (using firefox 3), but this is not a big problem, I just disabled it and changed the background color.

Thank You!

Transparency doesn't work in Linux. Search the web for slutions

how can i change the target from _self to _blank?

Please help

Here you go http://evocms-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/evocms-plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/other/tagcloud_blank.swf?revision=1119

;)

Edit: if you can't download it, right click on this link and select "Save As..."

Thanks a lot, I tried to do it myself after downloading the src folder.... I had a look at the class files.... but .fla file was corrupted... If it is possible I would like to know how (really curious.) can you help me out?

What software do you use to open .fla files? It works fine with my Flash CS4.

I changed the line 105 in src/com/roytanck/wpcumulus/Tag.as

navigateToURL(request,"_self");

to

navigateToURL(request,"_blank");

and compiled the swf.

i am using flash cs3 could that be the problem?

Maybe, I'm not an expert in Flash, I can only edit and compile :)

I tried it again but the FLA file is still corrupted.. is it possible to zip the copy of all files for the flash tag cloud and send me a copy to ...@gmail.com? I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks a lot for your help.

I've sent you a zip file

i installed flash cs4 and i can open the .fla file but how to i access the class files from there?

Try to edit Tag.as and Tagcloud.as files in text editor and then recompile the .fla
Seems like they are hooked automatically when you create an swf.

If this doesn't work you should better ask on Flash forums because my Flash knowledge is very limited ;)

thanks a lot for all your help

wow, guy, u made a great plugin! well, it can't display correctly in Chinese while i use UTF-8 code. every english word looks well, but every chinese word display like a box in every character...i need utf-8 code to show the korean and jp words correctly. Could u help m? my link: http://aoy.huming.com/blog/oliver661.php thx any way~

oliver661 wrote:

wow, guy, u made a great plugin! well, it can't display correctly in Chinese while i use UTF-8 code. every english word looks well, but every chinese word display like a box in every character...

You can get tagcloud.swf for Chinese language from here http://evocms-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/evocms-plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/lang/

Just rename tagcloud_chinese.swf to tagcloud.swf and replace the original one.
If you use both Korean and Chinese then I have to make and upload some more files.

sam2kb wrote:

oliver661 wrote:

wow, guy, u made a great plugin! well, it can't display correctly in Chinese while i use UTF-8 code. every english word looks well, but every chinese word display like a box in every character...

You can get tagcloud.swf for Chinese language from here http://evocms-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/evocms-plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/lang/

Just rename tagcloud_chinese.swf to tagcloud.swf and replace the original one.
If you use both Korean and Chinese then I have to make and upload some more files.

well...I forgot to use it last night...Actually, I install it as u say in this post and do it again as u say above...but still show the wrong word, here is the shot.http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/c57ce.jpg
maybe, utf-8 is the problem....

Yeah, something is going wrong. I'll take a look at it tomorrow

sam2kb wrote:

This plugin allows you to display your site's tags using a Flash movie that rotates them in 3D.

[url=http://www.sonorth.com/travel/htsrv/call_plugin.php?plugin_ID=23&method=download&file=LLZB4OV38V]Download v0.3[/url]

http://ru.b2evo.net/media/images/20.jpg

By default it supports Latin and Cyrillic tags, for those who wants to display Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Hebrew tags download a new swf file from [url=http://evocms-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/evocms-plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/lang/]here[/url] and replace the original one.

I followed this steps,but this plugin failed to display simple Chinese language. then I downloaded the soure file tagcloud.fla, unfortunately I failed to open it with Flash CS3. Is the version of Flash wrong, how can I resolve this problem? Thanks.

I'm sorry I forgot about it. Can you try files test1 and test2 from here http://evocms-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/evocms-plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/lang/

You can open tagcloud.fla in Flash CS4

sam2kb wrote:

I'm sorry I forgot about it. Can you try files test1 and test2 from here http://evocms-plugins.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/evocms-plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/lang/

You can open tagcloud.fla in Flash CS4

No, the text1 and test2 didn't work for Simple Chinese.

That's not good.
What are the most common fonts for Chinese language? The default font is Arial that's the problem, I guess.

sam2kb wrote:

That's not good.
What are the most common fonts for Chinese language? The default font is Arial that's the problem, I guess.

no, it is not the truth.
I work in [url=http://www.ydl.me]YDL[/url]. And I edited the tagcloud.fla and got new tagcloud.swf,replaced the original one. Then this plugin can display simple Chinese which you can see in the website:[url=http://www.b2evolution.cn]http://www.b2evolution.cn[/url]. But it displays Chinese with a very bad style. In WordPress it can work well as you [url=http://www.yujjj.cn/3d-flash%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE%E4%BA%91wp-cumulus%E6%98%BE%E7%A4%BA%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE/]see here[/url]. I dont know how to resolve this problem.

It doesn't work well there too! Do you see squares instead of some tags?

sam2kb wrote:

It doesn't work well there too! Do you see squares instead of some tags?

wow...i can see it quite well...sam2kb, u know, to display SC is reaily difficult task 'cause u should use the right code, right font and the right browser. :'( :'(

Don't know why, but some tags are Chinese and some are squares :) Same thing is in your b2evo blog. I have no idea why it's like this.

Maybe some hieroglyphs aren't embedded in flash.

sam2kb wrote:

Don't know why, but some tags are Chinese and some are squares :) Same thing is in your b2evo blog. I have no idea why it's like this.

Maybe some hieroglyphs aren't embedded in flash.

恩。。。maybe there's sth wrong about the double Binary? Every word in Chinese've 2 Binary. Also do u use the embed fonts? umm, I've got an idea that a font selection in the plugin config page can solve the problem caused by the asia font or embed font. I just have flash8...

That's basically what I wrote a couple posts above ;)

oliver661 wrote:

sam2kb wrote:

Don't know why, but some tags are Chinese and some are squares :) Same thing is in your b2evo blog. I have no idea why it's like this.

Maybe some hieroglyphs aren't embedded in flash.

恩。。。maybe there's sth wrong about the double Binary? Every word in Chinese've 2 Binary. Also do u use the embed fonts? umm, I've got an idea that a font selection in the plugin config page can solve the problem caused by the asia font or embed font. I just have flash8...

我用中文将真实的情况写在这里，你们用英文翻译给插件作者看吧。
如果生成tagcloud.swf前选择嵌入中文字符集，由于中文字多，生成的tagcloud.swf文件会变得巨大（5M-8M）,没有使用意义。如果我按下面步骤进行了改进：
我用Flash CS4打开tagcloud.swf源文件tagcloud.fla,然后在嵌入字符集时选择不嵌入并将字体改为使用机器字体，字体用中文字体，如黑体，然后重新生成tagcloud.swf用以代理插件文件夹下同名原文件，所有中文字符倒都可以显示了，（大家可以从[url=http://www.b2evolution.cn]http://www.b2evolution.cn[/url]浏览到效果）但出现抖动与锯齿现象，感觉特不美观。从程序的角度上应该是可以解决这个问题的。此有待大家解决&#12290;
有两种傻瓜式的解决办法：
1、将可能会用到的中文标答理字手工嵌入.只需将使用到的的中文标签字加入即可，这样tagcloud.swf文件大小就变得很小并可以接收了。此方法要求每个网站根据自己的标签情况手工操作。比较麻烦。下面的方法则不需手工加入。
2、将中文标签通过程序代码先转为png格式图片，然后在tagcloud.swf中显示出来。此有一个缺点就是图片的着色不能改变。效果请浏览：[url=http://www.yujjj.cn/3d-flash%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE%E4%BA%91wp-cumulus%E6%98%BE%E7%A4%BA%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE/]点击这里浏览中文支持效果[/url]
上面两种方法都不是最好的办法，最好的办法应是针对中文改进程序源代码。可以为中文单独发行一个版本。

ydl.me wrote:

oliver661 wrote:

sam2kb wrote:

Don't know why, but some tags are Chinese and some are squares :) Same thing is in your b2evo blog. I have no idea why it's like this.

Maybe some hieroglyphs aren't embedded in flash.

恩。。。maybe there's sth wrong about the double Binary? Every word in Chinese've 2 Binary. Also do u use the embed fonts? umm, I've got an idea that a font selection in the plugin config page can solve the problem caused by the asia font or embed font. I just have flash8...

我用中文将真实的情况写在这里，你们用英文翻译给插件作者看吧。
如果生成tagcloud.swf前选择嵌入中文字符集，由于中文字多，生成的tagcloud.swf文件会变得巨大（5M-8M）,没有使用意义。如果我按下面步骤进行了改进：
我用Flash CS4打开tagcloud.swf源文件tagcloud.fla,然后在嵌入字符集时选择不嵌入并将字体改为使用机器字体，字体用中文字体，如黑体，然后重新生成tagcloud.swf用以代理插件文件夹下同名原文件，所有中文字符倒都可以显示了，（大家可以从[url=http://www.b2evolution.cn]http://www.b2evolution.cn[/url]浏览到效果）但出现抖动与锯齿现象，感觉特不美观。从程序的角度上应该是可以解决这个问题的。此有待大家解决&#12290;
有两种傻瓜式的解决办法：
1、将可能会用到的中文标答理字手工嵌入.只需将使用到的的中文标签字加入即可，这样tagcloud.swf文件大小就变得很小并可以接收了。此方法要求每个网站根据自己的标签情况手工操作。比较麻烦。下面的方法则不需手工加入。
2、将中文标签通过程序代码先转为png格式图片，然后在tagcloud.swf中显示出来。此有一个缺点就是图片的着色不能改变。效果请浏览：[url=http://www.yujjj.cn/3d-flash%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE%E4%BA%91wp-cumulus%E6%98%BE%E7%A4%BA%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE/]点击这里浏览中文支持效果[/url]
上面两种方法都不是最好的办法，最好的办法应是针对中文改进程序源代码。可以为中文单独发行一个版本。

锯齿的办法可以使用动态平滑解决 一般情况下flash是不需要嵌套的 我一直使用flash8做一些工程比较大的东西 这个问题从flash一诞生嵌套字体以来都会有 选择不嵌套 动画平滑 就可以解决了 flashplayer可以智能的选择使用的字体的

翻译的问题没问题 不过我还是准备实验一下再翻译，可以吧，另外我目前没有计划升级我的flash8到cs4, 如果上面我说的在cs4里面没有就尽管54吧 哈哈

Ok, I figured it out, already have a working tagcloud.swf in my test blog. The problem is the file size which is 2Mb ;) kinda heavy.

If anybody knows any Chinese font with smallest file size, please let me know. I smallest font I found is

name: 汉鼎简黑变 - HDZB_35.TTF
size: 1.512 kB

oliver661 wrote:

ydl.me wrote:

oliver661 wrote:

sam2kb wrote:

Don't know why, but some tags are Chinese and some are squares :) Same thing is in your b2evo blog. I have no idea why it's like this.

Maybe some hieroglyphs aren't embedded in flash.

恩。。。maybe there's sth wrong about the double Binary? Every word in Chinese've 2 Binary. Also do u use the embed fonts? umm, I've got an idea that a font selection in the plugin config page can solve the problem caused by the asia font or embed font. I just have flash8...

我用中文将真实的情况写在这里，你们用英文翻译给插件作者看吧。
如果生成tagcloud.swf前选择嵌入中文字符集，由于中文字多，生成的tagcloud.swf文件会变得巨大（5M-8M）,没有使用意义。如果我按下面步骤进行了改进：
我用Flash CS4打开tagcloud.swf源文件tagcloud.fla,然后在嵌入字符集时选择不嵌入并将字体改为使用机器字体，字体用中文字体，如黑体，然后重新生成tagcloud.swf用以代理插件文件夹下同名原文件，所有中文字符倒都可以显示了，（大家可以从[url=http://www.b2evolution.cn]http://www.b2evolution.cn[/url]浏览到效果）但出现抖动与锯齿现象，感觉特不美观。从程序的角度上应该是可以解决这个问题的。此有待大家解决&#12290;
有两种傻瓜式的解决办法：
1、将可能会用到的中文标答理字手工嵌入.只需将使用到的的中文标签字加入即可，这样tagcloud.swf文件大小就变得很小并可以接收了。此方法要求每个网站根据自己的标签情况手工操作。比较麻烦。下面的方法则不需手工加入。
2、将中文标签通过程序代码先转为png格式图片，然后在tagcloud.swf中显示出来。此有一个缺点就是图片的着色不能改变。效果请浏览：[url=http://www.yujjj.cn/3d-flash%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE%E4%BA%91wp-cumulus%E6%98%BE%E7%A4%BA%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE/]点击这里浏览中文支持效果[/url]
上面两种方法都不是最好的办法，最好的办法应是针对中文改进程序源代码。可以为中文单独发行一个版本。

锯齿的办法可以使用动态平滑解决 一般情况下flash是不需要嵌套的 我一直使用flash8做一些工程比较大的东西 这个问题从flash一诞生嵌套字体以来都会有 选择不嵌套 动画平滑 就可以解决了 flashplayer可以智能的选择使用的字体的

翻译的问题没问题 不过我还是准备实验一下再翻译，可以吧，另外我目前没有计划升级我的flash8到cs4, 如果上面我说的在cs4里面没有就尽管54吧 哈哈

只有CS4才能打开源flp文件，其他的都不行。按你的方法处理仍有锯齿。

ydl.me wrote:

oliver661 wrote:

ydl.me wrote:

oliver661 wrote:

sam2kb wrote:

Don't know why, but some tags are Chinese and some are squares :) Same thing is in your b2evo blog. I have no idea why it's like this.

Maybe some hieroglyphs aren't embedded in flash.

恩。。。maybe there's sth wrong about the double Binary? Every word in Chinese've 2 Binary. Also do u use the embed fonts? umm, I've got an idea that a font selection in the plugin config page can solve the problem caused by the asia font or embed font. I just have flash8...

我用中文将真实的情况写在这里，你们用英文翻译给插件作者看吧。
如果生成tagcloud.swf前选择嵌入中文字符集，由于中文字多，生成的tagcloud.swf文件会变得巨大（5M-8M）,没有使用意义。如果我按下面步骤进行了改进：
我用Flash CS4打开tagcloud.swf源文件tagcloud.fla,然后在嵌入字符集时选择不嵌入并将字体改为使用机器字体，字体用中文字体，如黑体，然后重新生成tagcloud.swf用以代理插件文件夹下同名原文件，所有中文字符倒都可以显示了，（大家可以从[url=http://www.b2evolution.cn]http://www.b2evolution.cn[/url]浏览到效果）但出现抖动与锯齿现象，感觉特不美观。从程序的角度上应该是可以解决这个问题的。此有待大家解决&#12290;
有两种傻瓜式的解决办法：
1、将可能会用到的中文标答理字手工嵌入.只需将使用到的的中文标签字加入即可，这样tagcloud.swf文件大小就变得很小并可以接收了。此方法要求每个网站根据自己的标签情况手工操作。比较麻烦。下面的方法则不需手工加入。
2、将中文标签通过程序代码先转为png格式图片，然后在tagcloud.swf中显示出来。此有一个缺点就是图片的着色不能改变。效果请浏览：[url=http://www.yujjj.cn/3d-flash%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE%E4%BA%91wp-cumulus%E6%98%BE%E7%A4%BA%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE/]点击这里浏览中文支持效果[/url]
上面两种方法都不是最好的办法，最好的办法应是针对中文改进程序源代码。可以为中文单独发行一个版本。

锯齿的办法可以使用动态平滑解决 一般情况下flash是不需要嵌套的 我一直使用flash8做一些工程比较大的东西 这个问题从flash一诞生嵌套字体以来都会有 选择不嵌套 动画平滑 就可以解决了 flashplayer可以智能的选择使用的字体的

翻译的问题没问题 不过我还是准备实验一下再翻译，可以吧，另外我目前没有计划升级我的flash8到cs4, 如果上面我说的在cs4里面没有就尽管54吧 哈哈

只有CS4才能打开源flp文件，其他的都不行。按你的方法处理仍有锯齿。

你的方法的确可以显示中文了！！ 不过还是有几个问题

第一个 文字的确有锯齿而且进行变化的时候大小变化很诡异
第二个 退到后面的字体，也就是远离镜头的tag，没有颜色变浅的模糊效果
第三个 这个字体应该没有使用embed fonts吧，然后看你的AS更改介绍应该是用了华文行楷，这个字体我有安装 不过没有办法显示 显示成了 宋体！100%是宋体 估计是因为我使用的是utf-8或者是因为b2evo 246的关系吧

对于第一个 试着把一个tag扔到一个mv里，直接对于这个mv进行缩放，虽然渲染代价大一点，不过效果应该会比直接缩放文字强。。。完全是flash8的经验。。。
另外你的tagcloud.swf似乎是那个WP的吧，恩，可以的话我觉得用作者提供的这个或许可以解决问题

oliver661 wrote:

ydl.me wrote:

oliver661 wrote:

ydl.me wrote:

oliver661 wrote:

sam2kb wrote:

Don't know why, but some tags are Chinese and some are squares :) Same thing is in your b2evo blog. I have no idea why it's like this.

Maybe some hieroglyphs aren't embedded in flash.

恩。。。maybe there's sth wrong about the double Binary? Every word in Chinese've 2 Binary. Also do u use the embed fonts? umm, I've got an idea that a font selection in the plugin config page can solve the problem caused by the asia font or embed font. I just have flash8...

我用中文将真实的情况写在这里，你们用英文翻译给插件作者看吧。
如果生成tagcloud.swf前选择嵌入中文字符集，由于中文字多，生成的tagcloud.swf文件会变得巨大（5M-8M）,没有使用意义。如果我按下面步骤进行了改进：
我用Flash CS4打开tagcloud.swf源文件tagcloud.fla,然后在嵌入字符集时选择不嵌入并将字体改为使用机器字体，字体用中文字体，如黑体，然后重新生成tagcloud.swf用以代理插件文件夹下同名原文件，所有中文字符倒都可以显示了，（大家可以从[url=http://www.b2evolution.cn]http://www.b2evolution.cn[/url]浏览到效果）但出现抖动与锯齿现象，感觉特不美观。从程序的角度上应该是可以解决这个问题的。此有待大家解决&#12290;
有两种傻瓜式的解决办法：
1、将可能会用到的中文标答理字手工嵌入.只需将使用到的的中文标签字加入即可，这样tagcloud.swf文件大小就变得很小并可以接收了。此方法要求每个网站根据自己的标签情况手工操作。比较麻烦。下面的方法则不需手工加入。
2、将中文标签通过程序代码先转为png格式图片，然后在tagcloud.swf中显示出来。此有一个缺点就是图片的着色不能改变。效果请浏览：[url=http://www.yujjj.cn/3d-flash%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE%E4%BA%91wp-cumulus%E6%98%BE%E7%A4%BA%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E6%A0%87%E7%AD%BE/]点击这里浏览中文支持效果[/url]
上面两种方法都不是最好的办法，最好的办法应是针对中文改进程序源代码。可以为中文单独发行一个版本。

锯齿的办法可以使用动态平滑解决 一般情况下flash是不需要嵌套的 我一直使用flash8做一些工程比较大的东西 这个问题从flash一诞生嵌套字体以来都会有 选择不嵌套 动画平滑 就可以解决了 flashplayer可以智能的选择使用的字体的

翻译的问题没问题 不过我还是准备实验一下再翻译，可以吧，另外我目前没有计划升级我的flash8到cs4, 如果上面我说的在cs4里面没有就尽管54吧 哈哈

只有CS4才能打开源flp文件，其他的都不行。按你的方法处理仍有锯齿。

你的方法的确可以显示中文了！！ 不过还是有几个问题

第一个 文字的确有锯齿而且进行变化的时候大小变化很诡异
第二个 退到后面的字体，也就是远离镜头的tag，没有颜色变浅的模糊效果
第三个 这个字体应该没有使用embed fonts吧，然后看你的AS更改介绍应该是用了华文行楷，这个字体我有安装 不过没有办法显示 显示成了 宋体！100%是宋体 估计是因为我使用的是utf-8或者是因为b2evo 246的关系吧

对于第一个 试着把一个tag扔到一个mv里，直接对于这个mv进行缩放，虽然渲染代价大一点，不过效果应该会比直接缩放文字强。。。完全是flash8的经验。。。
另外你的tagcloud.swf似乎是那个WP的吧，恩，可以的话我觉得用作者提供的这个或许可以解决问题

不是WP的swf文件，不过原理是一模一样的。并且也可以直接用wp的swf文件代替。这有什么区别呢？！希望有人能将些情况翻译给插件开发者了解，用以改进程序。大家可以加入QQ群讨论：74856665

Guys please stop quoting the whole posts, it looks weird.

sam2kb wrote:

Guys please stop quoting the whole posts, it looks weird.

ydl.me & I tested the swf which have not embed asia fonts and it can display Chinese tag! But there're sth wrong such as the Chinese word cannot display and move smoothly as Latins word. So it is not beautiful enough as we want.
Chinese fonts is so big that if u embed it in ur swf, the swf would become too big--just bigger than 5M! What's more, the flashplayer can use the font at local fonts folder when we choice NO EMBED FONTS. Well, I think it may cause the effects as I said above which make us discuss lots of :oops: :oops: :oops:
We don't know if there needs another swf that havn't embed font, and how to solve the terrible effects causing by it.
Thanks a lot.

oliver661 said the truth.

If you don't embed Chinese font, that means all visitors must have it installed locally in order to see all tags, right?

No, I think that only the people whose ie or ff can support chinese language can see the chinese tags. Now the only problem is to make the style seem better.

sam2kb wrote:

If you don't embed Chinese font, that means all visitors must have it installed locally in order to see all tags, right?

Chinese font should be installed locally cause it's too big to loaded online, u know, as same as jpnese and koeran. Don't worry about where is the fonts. Everyone want to read chinese should install the fonts just like 宋体 or simsong and 微软雅黑 or msyahei, embed fonts fits ENGLISH or other language that doesn't contain too much characters. What's more, flashplayer can detect the local fonts folder that all fonts could be set to the default font if there isn't font right for the tagcloud.

So, that's why I suggested to build a feature user can decided the fonts as like and the version have not embed fonts.

If we can resolve the bad styles of this flash tags plugin in http://www.b2evolution.cn , Everything will be ok.

I just installed, and it appears that tags on older posts are showing up, but on any new posts, they do not appear in the Flash Tag Cloud.
Even if I go to an older post and add a tag, it appears, but on any new posts, nothing shows up.
Any suggestions?

Can you give a link?

Is there a delay in the tag updates? Maybe that is the issue I am having.

I don't see any missing tags now, maybe it has something to do with page caching. Do you have blog cache enabled?

I don't have blog cache enabled, I don't see coke, fries, or burger coupon from the most recent post in the cloud

What about tag limit, is it higher than the number of tags in the system?

I have 50 limit set, I don't think there are more than 50 tags.
Some of the tags from posts earlier today have now appeared, so I am wondering if the program only goes to look for new tags on a scheduled basis. Like every hour or 2 hours?

I just refreshed the page and now coke, fries, burger coupon show up, so I am assuming there is a delay.
Thanks for all of your help as always!

Some of the tags from posts earlier today have now appeared, so I am wondering if the program only goes to look for new tags on a scheduled basis. Like every hour or 2 hours?

No, it grabs new tags from DB each time you load the page.

It might be widget cache though. Do you have APC extension loaded on Tools > System tab?

I don't see anything APC under systems tab.
Contents cached in the database
» Delete pre-renderered item cache. is under misc if that is related

Widget cache was added in v3.3.3

Try to add a regular tag cloud widget shipped with b2evo, will it display more tags?

It doesn't display new post tags either, maybe it's my server/database?

Can you send me your FTP login and password?

sent via pm, may take up to 30 minutes to be active though.

I posted a test at 8:21pm, my time, and it just showed up on the clouds around 2 hours later if that helps anything.

You should set time difference between server time and your local time. Global settings >Regional

Server time is GMT-7

It is set so my current time shows up in the posts. (EST). It has been that way, so not related to the tag issues

Can you add another tag with current time?

I did at 10:58pm (6 minutes ago) my time, the tag is 10:58pm

I deleted many of the other tags to see what would happen. They came off immediately, but the tag with the post I posted 10 minutes ago still isn't there

You should see it now. I increased the time by 2 hours in plugin.

did you do something? because i just did another test post and it is already there. There is more text above from the old flash tag cloud code though

Notice: Undefined variable: Hit in /home/content/t/h/u/thundercove21/html/dinenearby/blogs/plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/_flash_tag_cloud.plugin.php on line 246

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/content/t/h/u/thundercove21/html/dinenearby/blogs/plugins/flash_tag_cloud_plugin/_flash_tag_cloud.plugin.php on line 246

Shows up above the cloud

Was that in a setting we can change easily?

Thanks for doing that, you are great!

There is more text above from the old flash tag cloud code though

Fixed.

What time difference did you set on Regional tab? Either adjust it by 2 or set 0

I had it at 2 prior to installing the plugin and currently. So I should adjust it to 0 now?

Try it. You should see new tags in regular tag cloud

It works and the evo tag cloud updates now as well, but the time of day is off by 2 hours from my local time if I leave it that way. My server time is 2 hours earlier than my time. I changed it to 0 and tested, worked great, changed it back to 2 and it wouldn't work, so I will leave that number set at 0. The time isn't that big of deal to me anyway!

This bug is already fixed in CVS. I should have looked there first :)

I edited the Flash tag cloud plugin so you can revert your time difference back.

I just went in to the php code too and may have accidentally changed anything you may have changed.
The only thinkg I messed with was $servertimenow, but I think I changed it back, but it is still not updating immediately when I set my local time as 2.

Working Perfectly Now.
Thanks so much for your help!

Fixed now, please don't edit it any more ;)

Nice site by the way, I used to live in Orlando.

Thanks, it's still in progress, I've been working on it for about 8 months, trying to decide whether to pursue the biz or not.

We are on our third night in the 20's tonight. This is Florida, it's supposed to be warm!

Are you in Russia now?

It looks like you changed $servertimenow to $localtimenow. Is that all you did?
That's what I was going to do, but screwed it up somehow.

In Miami, it's actually cold here last few days, but still much warmer than in Russia :)

Yeah, it should be $localtimenow.

Thanks again for all of your assistance. I may be contacting you to make the site look good if I decide to pursue this business. I want it to look more like a website than a blog and have no idea how do do that, so I will probably be in touch soon for some custom work if you are available.

Jim

Ok, no problem

Hello,

If I create multiple words tags, when clicking on the tag I get each time this error :
Server Error
404 - File or directory not found.
The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

No problem with one word tags

Is there something to do ?

Thanks

Can you give a link to your blog?

here is a link :
http://gourle.com/blog/blog1.php

try the "sbs 2008" tag

thanks

You should change tag URLs in Blog settings > URLs
Try all combinations. URLs like tag=xxx+yyy should always work

ok, it works perfectly now,

Thanks a lot

No problem

I can't get my tag clouds working and read most of the information on this subject. Is it because I am using the b2evo 3.3.3?

I have the plugins activated. I can't even get the flash tag cloud to work.
What am I doing wrong?

The blogs are:
www.homedesignsense.com/blog
www.homedesignsense.com/fauxpainting

Thanks

Just add a flash tag cloud widget to the sidebar.

I did. I have it posted in 'Blog Settings' under widgets and it is enabled. The settings are:
Max no of tags=20
Tag separator = empty
Min size = 8
Max size = 15
CSS Class= empty
DOM ID: empty
These are the settings. Am I missing some information?

Nothing is working. More suggestions?

Nothing is working. More suggestions?

Add some tags to your posts?

Samk2b,

The most important thing I overlooked...the tags. Thanks for the brain repair! :oops:

Thank you for this nice plugin.

I'm having problems with dark colored skins & the tag cloud displaying the text. I've changed the color settings in almost everything I could find in the _flash_cloud.plugin.php and can't seem to get it to work.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated =)...

I've changed the color settings in almost everything I could find in the _flash_cloud.plugin.php and can't seem to get it to work.

What do you mean? You suppose to change setting in widget e.g. Control panel > Blog settings > Widgets > Flash tag cloud

Doesn't seem to be working on 4.1.1 - or am I missing something?

Not tested in v4, I will check it...

My mistake - it just wasn't showing up because I hadn't assigned any tags to posts yet - sorry :)

So it actually works in v4.x :)

Plugin updated to v1.0.0

- Now uses default widget params specified in skin
- An option to display tags from multiple blogs
- An option to ignore selected tags
- An option to stretch tag cloud to fit in parent container (auto width)
- bugfixes

Note that this plugin requires b2evolution v4.0 and newer

nice but "flash" ? no thank you, i ll pass : D

What do you mean? It degrades to regular tag cloud if flash is not supported in viewer's browser e.g. Apple devices, google bot