This is a first for me. Even though I’ve always been a firm believer in the open source licensing model, I’ve never actually released anything as free software. Up until now. As of ten minutes ago, WP-Cumulus is open source. From now on the plugin will be hosted on WordPress.org, and I will no longer offer it for download here on my own website. But that’s just the start of it.
Because it’s now open source, the source files for the Flash movie are also available for download for you to tinker with. This means you’ll be able to change the font, embed your language’s character set and change anything else you feel beneficial for your blog. If you improve on the plugin’s functionality, please let me know so I can consider adding your changes.
Have fun!
yes,it`s nice
however it just support the English tags,when you use Chinese tag words,it doesn`t work.
Would you please upgrade it for other language users
thanks
Comment by Don — August 17, 2008 @ 1:28 am
Hi Don. One of my reasons for going open source is that users can now add their own local character sets to the movie. I used to have a couple of international versions available, but preparing them was tedious and time consuming. Please see this post: http://www.roytanck.com/2008/08/04/how-to-add-more-characters-to-wp-cumulus/ .
If you attempt to do a Chinese version, please keep me posted. I’d like to know if the movie is still small enough not to slow down your blog. Chinese has lots of characters, and all of them will need to be stored in the Flash movie.
Comment by Roy — August 17, 2008 @ 11:12 am
Hi,
very nice!!
I’m working on a flex application and I would like to use your WP-Cumulus. But, when a user click on a tag, I would like to initialize a public variable and not load a new URL.
So, I would like to modify your code but I can’t because my flash version isn’t compatible. I use Flash 8.
What’s your version to flash to generate .fla???
Thanks
Comment by seb — October 2, 2008 @ 11:11 am
Hi Seb. I’m using Flash CS3 Professional (which is a fancy name for version 9.0)
Comment by Roy — October 2, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
Goog job man !
Tks U
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Comment by Wize — October 2, 2008 @ 2:47 pm
Thanks you, I’m going to look for this version of Flash CS3 Pro… Maybe I could use a trial version just to modify your sources but I don’t know if with a trial version I can generate a SWF…
Best regards!
Seb
(France, Grenoble)
Comment by seb — October 2, 2008 @ 4:25 pm
Is there a limit to the number of characters that can be passed in using addvariable to the tagcloud variable?
Or a text encoding that would break the display? I have a case where it is passed in fine but nothing is displayed in the swf…
Thanks for a nice program!
Comment by Rob A — October 28, 2008 @ 6:06 pm