Help me test WP-Cumulus unicode support
The one feature I’ve always wanted to add to WP-Cumulus is true unicode support. Flash player 9 made this impossible because it needed to have the font characters embedded into the movie, and unicode fonts are simply too big for that. But with Flash 10, Adobe has introduced new ways of handling text, and those now allow for non-embedded text to be animated quite smoothly. There’s also no longer any need to specify an exact font name, you can simply tell the player to get a sans-serif font. Flash player 10 is on over 93% of computers now, so it starts to make sense to use it to finally add this long-awaited feature to WP-Cumulus.
I’ve created a test movie (above) that uses these new features, and I’m anxious to find out if it works for you, especially if you’re in Asia, Russia or anywhere else with a non-Latin character set.
What are you seeing?
- Are you seeing all 45 tags (approximately), in many languages?
- Are you seeing your (non-Latin) language?
- Any other issues?
- Do you want me to add your language to the test? Post the language name here.
Please leave a comment below and tell me if the movie works as it should. Thanks!
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roytanck (995):
Exciting!
I might be able to upgrade now
I don’t see Chinese?
here’s some:
乐极生悲
Comment by Mike — November 27, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
Thanks, Mike, I added it in. You may need to clear the cache, but it’s showing here.
Comment by Roy — November 27, 2009 @ 5:01 pm
Great Work Roy!!
It works perfect for me.
Comment by Andy — November 28, 2009 @ 2:01 am
赣语,it should be a Chinese dialect has no fonts.But I can see my mother tongue,Chinese!
Expecting the universal cumulus XD
Comment by manu — November 28, 2009 @ 2:05 am
AWESOME! each language…. crysatal clear. love it!
Comment by Teresa Berry — November 28, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
I´m having trouble ta make the russian work even with the source code. How did you manage to get cyrillic display in this wp-cumulus?
Almost all languages clearly visible, only some display in boxes.
Comment by 3d visualisierung — November 28, 2009 @ 10:51 pm
Roy, can you edit your post to include a list of all the text we *should* see in the cloud? I’m still not seeing Chinese. I upgraded cumulus on my site, and it’s not showing there either, at least for me.
Comment by Mike — November 29, 2009 @ 5:28 am
Is it possible to turn the Cumulus Cloud into a non-tag cloud? E.g. the ‘tags’ could be links or other data from a list
Comment by Dave — November 29, 2009 @ 5:31 am
Unsure if im meant to see all characters but im seeing a lot of squares (assuming these are unsupported characters?) but I am seeing quite a few Asian and Russian ones…im using latest version of safari with flash 10
Comment by Zappa — November 29, 2009 @ 8:42 am
Mike: This movie loads http://www.roytanck.com/wp-content/uploads/unicodetest/tagcloud.xml , so if you load that into your browser you should see all the text. There is no new version of WP-Cumulus yet, this will be part of version 2.0 if it works reliably.
Dave: Yes, you can use the movie outside a the WordPress context. The link is in the shortcuts navigation bar at the top of this page.
Zappa: Hmm… are you seeing text in your local language? Becuase this relies on fonts installed on your PC (or Mac) it could be that there’s no font installed that supports all languages. Windows has a few by default, including the sans-serif default (Arial).
3D visualisierung: I doubt you have the source code to this version, as I haven’t checked it into CVS yet. No point in doing that with early tests like this. Are you seeing text inside the boxes, or just empty boxes? And how about your native tongue?
Comment by Roy — November 29, 2009 @ 2:39 pm
I came here to see if there is a answer to my comment (you didn’t install Subscribe to Comments yet
) and saw that you fixed this with Flash 10.
I see all words except 5 that are shown as squares. I believe those are Chinese and Japanese (since I don’t see them in other visible ones) and I think that problem is because I don’t have installed fonts that will show them on my computer (I also see those squares when visiting Chinese and Japanese web sites and when viewing XML file you mentioned above). So I don’t think that problem is with your code, it’s because of users’ fonts. Some East Asians could confirm as this.
Since you are preparing new version, will you consider my suggestions about wp_enqueue_script and localization mentioned here?
Comment by Milan — November 29, 2009 @ 5:48 pm
Yes, using the script queue is on our list and it ties in with moving to SWFObject 2.x. I hope you’re right as to why some languages don’t show up. It’s how things should work, and how I hope for them to work.
Comment by Roy — November 29, 2009 @ 6:42 pm
Turkish which is Türkçe doesn’t appear
and instead some text squares appear
Comment by proje — November 30, 2009 @ 11:22 am
now all boxes disappeared an some new languages appeared. My native tongue is German, but i also need some cyrillic characters and they´re displayed correctly in the tags.
I don´t have the sourcecode for this version, but you´ve put a source version to download, where people can manipulate the fla file and i tried the cyrillic character embedding but it didn´t work. But it works well for the wp-cumulus example swf i found on your bolg. Any hint, how i can fix this. I noticed that the as in the source is different from the example swf.
Comment by 3D Visualisierung — November 30, 2009 @ 11:22 am
Roy,
Let us have a try with Polish language. The demo string could be: ZażółćGęśląJaźń
Best regards,
Oczkov
Comment by Oczkov — November 30, 2009 @ 11:22 pm
Will it work with Vietnamese tags?
Comment by CeeBee — December 1, 2009 @ 6:11 am
Proje, does is appear OK if you loed the XML into the browser? (http://www.roytanck.com/wp-content/uploads/unicodetest/tagcloud.xml)
3D, I think your best option is for 2.0 to be released, but if you’re in a hurry, please make sure you pick a font that has Cyrillic characters, and make sure the font name in the TextField object matches the one in the Tag.as class before recompiling the movie.
Oczkov, I added in Polish, and it looks OK to me (actually, I think the current WP-Cumulus does Polish because there are only a few characters besides Latin, which I remember including)
CeeBee, I can see Vietnamese now, can you?
Comment by Roy — December 1, 2009 @ 10:47 am
Thank you so much for this very useful answer, will let you know if successful.
Comment by Giulio (alias 3D Visualisierung) — December 1, 2009 @ 2:06 pm
This. Is. So Beautiful. SO Beautiful! Saw it on The Architecture Review website and now I want EVERYTHING on the interwebs to move like this! [Please design a plugin that transforms all websites into WP Cumulus?
]
Thankyou!
Comment by miss_om — December 1, 2009 @ 11:49 pm
Hi Roy, the word “Turkce” (Turkish) appears fine in Chrome (Win XP). I will check with other browsers under XP and Snow Leopard later. I’ll post the results. Thanks
Comment by Baris Purut — December 2, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
I Dont see Danish
Hejsa
Comment by Jonas — December 3, 2009 @ 10:48 am
Jonas, does the Danish language use non-latin characters? If so, could you give me a word to use for testing? The point is not to have every language possible in here, but to test if non-latin characters work on as many client systems as possible. My English language Vista and Win7 boxes both show all languages OK so far.
Comment by Roy — December 3, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
Really nice job
I see my language – polish.
But instead of one word written in other langue I see small squares (no font effect). The word floating in pair with ~ “amarenna”. That’s if both words are in same language.
Comment by kmin — December 5, 2009 @ 1:27 am
Hey Roy, good job! I see squares instead of asisn chars (chinese/japanese/korean) WinXP SP3 RUS.. Hope this helps
Comment by Alex — December 7, 2009 @ 8:20 am
Excellent work Roy.
I can see all languages including mine (Greek) on my win7 box.
Comment by nikan — December 8, 2009 @ 1:16 pm
Hi Roy,
I can see all Chinese on my Macbook (OS X 10.5.5).
Must be a font issue with my Ubuntu box.
Comment by Mike — December 8, 2009 @ 11:16 pm
I downloaded the swf from this page and replaced the file in my wp-cumulus dir for my site – Chinese now visible in the tag cloud
http://pagesofinterest.net/blog/?
Comment by Mike — December 8, 2009 @ 11:20 pm
I don’t see a Russian and Ukrainian there. I really need these two in there. Thanks.
Comment by EnjoyMP3s.com — December 9, 2009 @ 1:18 am
Interesting, though I can’t see it all, some are boxes. So, here is a run down on what system I am using; what languages I recognise; and what doesn’t work for me. Hopefully this will help you workout where the problem is
My system: Mac OS 10.5.8, Firefox 3.5.5, Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32
Languages I recognise[1]: English, German, Turkish, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese, Korean, Greek, Vietnamese, Cyrillic.
Links for the languages that appear as boxes[2]: avi, convert, entrepreneurship, google, plugins[3]
Links for languages I can see in xml but not the cloud[4]: bank, bizner, calendar, flash, gadgets, goosync, idea, internet, plugin,
Notes:
1. I can’t read all the languages I recognise, so may be misidentifying some.
2. I have put the tag linked to in the xml file for all the text the appears as boxes.
3. I can read the second word, but not the first
4. I can read some characters int he xml file that I can’t see in the cloud. This may be that the cloud does not show all the tags. Though the fonts that I can’t see in the list appear to by Indian and Arabic.
Comment by Leefe — December 9, 2009 @ 11:39 am
By the way, I see some Spanish characters like: ñáéíóúü¡¿ºªÑÁÉÍÓÚÜ
Only one of the words is shown in squares for me.
Comment by Fernando — December 9, 2009 @ 11:57 pm
Thanks for all the replies so far. The most important thing I guess is whether everyone is seeing the target languages for their own blog. If Chinese bloggers can use Chinese tags and their readers can see them, I’m happy. With the font no longer embedded into the Flash, the movie is has to rely on system fonts to render the text. If you’re in the US and use an older OS you may not have the right fonts to render Chinese tags, but if you’re in China you probably will.
We’re going to be adding a font preference in WP-Cumulus 2.0 so users can select their own font, and pick a (web safe) font that supports their language.
Comment by Roy — December 10, 2009 @ 11:28 am
Here’s what I can see !
http://img121.imageshack.us/img121/7877/capturedcran20091210194.png
Comment by Sébastien — December 10, 2009 @ 7:44 pm
This is great, can I buy or download this program to use on my website?
Comment by Eric — December 11, 2009 @ 1:47 am
Hi Eric. Yes you can.
Sebastien, what OS and browser are you using? And can you see your own language? I’ve not come across this many ‘blocks’ yet.
Comment by Roy — December 11, 2009 @ 9:42 am
I’m a swede.
I can see all the rotating languages and I didn’t install any extra fonts in Windows Vista. Works perfect without any extra fonts installed in OS X 10.5 too.
I don’t see any words with the letters Å, Ä, Ö, å, ä, ö (Swedish and finnish) and Æ, Ø, Å, æ, ø, å (Norwegian and danish).
The norwegian/danish word could be “Pølse” and the swedish word could be “Förändring”. I don’t speak finnish but they have the same letters as us in their alphabet.
Comment by Andreas — December 12, 2009 @ 2:31 pm
I like it. Can I use this on my site http://www.ppsz.com made on ELgg?
Comment by Amit Mahajan — December 12, 2009 @ 4:30 pm
*I can see at least 35 different languages,
* I can see Chinese characters, like “汉语”, “赣语”, “乐极生悲”, “日本语”, ”平壤“
* Some characters are display as block, perhaps there are no fonts of those languages on my pc.
Comment by xxxss — December 14, 2009 @ 9:34 am
Hey Roy,
great work with the unicode support. But now that you made it even more userfriendly for non native english speaker, help me keep my promise: http://www.roytanck.com/2008/03/15/wp-cumulus-released/#comment-63571
It really isn’t that much work to do
Kau-Boy
Comment by Kau-Boy — December 16, 2009 @ 1:21 am
http://pics.lt/images/2009-12-16_144707.png
Please add lithuanian language. ( Ą Č Ę Ė Į Š Ų Ū Ž )
Comment by Wiziris — December 16, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
Hi Roy.
I’m a Korean and my mother language is already seen there. It works well Thanks. (WinXP)
p.s. I ported WP-Cumulus to TiStory blog environment (one of the common environment in Korea) and posted it on my blog.
(BTW, the post ‘how to install it’ is written in Korean)
http://zoc.kr/639
Thanks always.
Comment by bluenlive — December 16, 2009 @ 10:24 pm
Something more to tell you.
1. I can see some blocks. Maybe Sutable fonts are missing. (Korean Windows XP)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2762/4190547121_ed9aa7d8ff_o.png
2. In new version, users will be able to designate font?
or font will be written in flash file itself?
(I hope that users would be able to choose font)
Thanks again for your effort and the great plugin.
Comment by bluenlive — December 16, 2009 @ 10:48 pm
Kau-Boy: Yes, version 2.0 will be fully translatable. I’ll be looking into GlotPress to set up a translation community too.
Wiziris: I’ve added those characters to the XML
bluenlive: Are you using this highly experimental swf version, or a modified version of the current release movie? Thanks for porting, I’ll try and update the list in the faq soon.
And yes, the goal is to have users choose the font. This is a nice feature anyway, but it also allows you to pick a font that supports your language. It will have to be a font that’s installed on the user’s computer too though, but with a CSS-like fallback (like ‘sans-serif).
Comment by Roy — December 17, 2009 @ 9:44 am
Roy, thanks for your answer.
1. Of course I’m using a modified version of the current release. I don’t use experimental version.
2. Do you mean I (and other users) will not have to re-compile the WP-Cumulus plugin?
That sounds excellent!
Thanks again for your great product and kind answer.
Comment by bluenlive — December 17, 2009 @ 10:08 am
No need to recompile. System fonts will be used, and you’ll be able to use something like “Georgia, Times, serif” in the settings.
Comment by Roy — December 17, 2009 @ 11:36 am
Works for me, though some words are boxes.
My system is Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.15
Boxes for the following tags:
sync
3d
google
idea (for this one the xml file in ffox shows garbage as well – so I guess its the system’s “fault” ).
plugins
nabaztag – only one char is a box, the rest show up ok.
Also – if you want to have good support for RTL langauges (hebrew, arabic, persian), you should probably add a “directionality” boolean attribute which should do the equivalent of dir=”rtl” in html.
e.g the following search box is left aligned (http://www.google.com/#q=%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D+PC), and this one is right aligned (http://www.google.co.il/#q=%D7%A9%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%9D+PC)
Not sure how to do this in flash.
When do you expect the unicode version to be out?
Comment by Eyal — December 17, 2009 @ 12:45 pm
Hi Eyal. Thanks for your comment. I’ll be looking into rtl asap. I think it’s not hard to do at all in Flash, and yes, it would be a great addition. I’m seeing something similar on my Ubuntu box, and I guess it’s a matter of fonts. My hope is that the new font setting will allow users to work around this.
We were hoping to release the new version this year, but it’s more realistic to aim for January at this point I think. Don’t want to rush it and have it break for users.
Comment by Roy — December 17, 2009 @ 12:52 pm
the movie on the top of the the page work for me in China. it is a cool flash to show off.
Comment by Chinese Symbols — December 20, 2009 @ 4:20 am
great job~ cool~
some chinese example “鸟儿真伟大”
Comment by nobird — December 21, 2009 @ 7:21 am
Hi Roy, I see some non-latin languages, but also many boxes. It could be a font problem.
Heres are some screenshots:
http://bohtech.com/images/Screenshot.png – Safari
http://bohtech.com/images/Screenshot2.png – Firefox
http://bohtech.com/images/Screenshot3.png – XML
David
Mac OS 10.6.2 Safari 4.0.4, Firefox 3.5.6
Comment by David DelMonte — December 25, 2009 @ 6:27 pm
HI Roy,
Your Tag cloud has got my passion for it. I couldn’t help trying it, but I fail to include my language despite trying hard for 2 days trying as you explained here (http://www.roytanck.com/2008/08/04/how-to-add-more-characters-to-wp-cumulus/). I really like to see it working for Tibetan Characters as sampled here : “བོད་རིགས་མི་མང་།” , which uses font “microsoft himalaya” from OS VISTA.
Can it be done?
Tenzin
Comment by Tenzin — January 5, 2010 @ 7:50 pm
Hi Tenzin. We’re working on a version that has true unicode support. I’d advise you to wait for that to be released. Hopefully that will happen this month.
Comment by Roy — January 6, 2010 @ 11:32 am
In Serbia we use both Latin with our letters šđčćž ŠĐČĆŽ and Cyrillic that is nearly like Russian but have these letters also љњџђћ ЉЊЏЂЋ. Otherwise, latin + cyrillic are enough
I use Drupal and I am trying to get it working but something weird is happening as everything is working but links do not show or work.
There were questions on Drupal Cumulus issue but no one seems to answer
Comment by MacMladen — January 6, 2010 @ 4:33 pm
Can i get to use the 3d tag cloud in flex.. i really require it !!
Comment by shashank — January 7, 2010 @ 11:30 am
Shasvank, there’s a Flex version over at http://carvalhar.com/#/en/blog/183/flex-cumulus-tag-cloud/.
Comment by Roy — January 7, 2010 @ 1:23 pm
Links not working is usually because of url issues. The links need to be on the same domain, unless a security setting is changed for the flash (done in the Drupal code). The current release version of the movie does not support unicode, so that might also be an issue.
I’ve added the characters you mentioned into the test XML file, so if you empty your cache you should see them (or not).
Comment by Roy — January 7, 2010 @ 1:25 pm
I can see some Chinese “中国话” “汉语” “乐极生悲” … Thanks !
Comment by anyLiv — January 8, 2010 @ 7:57 am
when i export the code in flex…its opening as a blank file…what shall i do!?
Comment by shashank — January 8, 2010 @ 8:09 am
Am using latest IMac – cannot see non latin characters
Comment by steve — January 8, 2010 @ 12:00 pm
correction – I see some chinese and korean characters now! but still lots of block squares
Comment by steve — January 8, 2010 @ 12:01 pm
Shashank, I’m really not familiar with Flex, so I’m afraid I can’t help you…
Comment by Roy — January 8, 2010 @ 3:02 pm
The Persian words are OK, there is two, “فارسی” and “نستعلیق”
the only problem for this tool was this (unicode support )
Very good news for me
Thanks.
Comment by FzerorubigD — January 9, 2010 @ 8:41 pm
Hi, I am from Latvia, and in Flash movie I see all characters so far except first 4 in word: “አማርኛ amarəñña” which are displayed as squares. Please add following Latvian characters to the test movie: “ĀČĒĢĪĶĻŅŖŠŪŽ”. Regards, And.
Comment by And — January 17, 2010 @ 9:35 pm
some additional info: windows 7, flash 10, Firefox 3.5.7
Comment by And — January 17, 2010 @ 9:37 pm
Dear Joy,
Googd work. I could read indic scripts in the movie. I recognised both Malayalam and Hindi. But what about the conjuncts in these complex scripts? Shall I test it by taking your movie? Hope you will respond to my comment.
Regards
Sunil
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Sunil.Prabhakar
Comment by Sunil Prabhakar — January 21, 2010 @ 10:02 am
Dear Joy,
Forgot to tell. No errors found in both Malayalam and Hindi. I am using Win Vista XP1 and IE 7.
Regards
Sunil
Comment by Sunil Prabhakar — January 21, 2010 @ 10:43 am
Dear Roy,
Sorry for misspelling your name.
Regards
Sunil
Comment by Sunil Prabhakar — January 21, 2010 @ 10:44 am
Hi Sunil. No worries. It’s a joy to talk to you too
Thanks for reporting this. Looks like most people are seeing their native languages OK, which is what it’s all about.
If you like you can download the movie to do further tests. I assume you know how to get the swf, right?
Comment by Roy — January 21, 2010 @ 10:46 am
Dear Roy,
Thank you for your immediate response. I’ll download and test the movie for complex scripts under various platforms and browsers. I need to download two files -tagcloud.swf and tagcloud.xml and test it using flash player 9 or later – am I right? If you permit, I can use this in my news portal ( I am working in the online edition of one of the most circulated daily in this part of the world) so that more people will happen to see it.
Regards
Sunil
Comment by Sunil Prabhakar — January 21, 2010 @ 10:55 am
Sunil, you will need Flash 10 for this. I wouldn’t recommend using this version in a production website, other than as a test (similar to this post). Thanks.
Comment by Roy — January 21, 2010 @ 11:05 am
hi, Roy, I come from china, There are some chinese characters is messy code. eg. a phrase including ‘平壤’ is just ‘平壤’ is normal,the others is messy code.
Comment by patrick — January 29, 2010 @ 1:24 pm
Hi! It would be perfect to have an UTF-8 version of your beautiful plugin! I use it on my webpage, but some of the Hungarian characters don’t appear at all…:-(
From my mac, osx 10.6.2., this image is visible on your site:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1646308/cumulus.jpg
And please add Hungarian language, which is “Magyar” in hungarian.
Thanks a lot, Gyorgy
Comment by Gyorgy Hild — January 30, 2010 @ 5:37 pm
Works like a charm, going to implement on our site for popular keyword cloud. Thank you from perth insulation.
Comment by Perth Insulation — February 2, 2010 @ 3:05 pm
What a crowd stopper. Really nice and I can see everything. Will be pushing for implementation on our internal site. Thanks.
Comment by Karl — February 4, 2010 @ 5:42 pm
HI Roy
Last month I request a support for Tibetan Unicode, and you told that, you are working on a version that has true unicode support. Is it near to release?
In the mean Time I have developed a module for TYPOlight CMS. which you can see working on site http://www.web-praesenz.ch/webagentur.html . I will release it there as pluck and play module.
regards
Comment by Tenzin — February 5, 2010 @ 2:56 pm
Tenzin, Progress on WP-Cumulus 2.0 has stalled a bit, but I’m going to pick it up asap. Thanks for the Typolight port.
Comment by Roy — February 8, 2010 @ 1:11 pm
OSX 10.5
I do not see Arabic عربية , Syriac ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, or Hebrew עברית
Beyond that, I’m not seeing anything distinctively German Deutsch, or Dutch Nederlands.
Comment by Touma — February 10, 2010 @ 9:18 am
Touma, not all languages are in there. I copied in words from Wikipedia and such. Dutch and German are part of the basic Latin character set that has been supported since day one. I added the words in your comment, but you may need to clear your browser’s cache to see them.
Any blocks/otherwise obvious failures?
Comment by Roy — February 10, 2010 @ 2:42 pm
Hello
how about Russian ?
на руссоком он вроде не работает ..
Best regards
Comment by Orche — February 21, 2010 @ 4:48 pm
wow sorry – i found how it may be done
Comment by Orche — February 21, 2010 @ 4:55 pm
i have seen “中國話”，assuming it is the “Traditional Chinese” specified in Adobe Flash CS4.(I am using IE7 and XP)
The question is: Can this unicode version be used with Drupal cumulus module to animate Traditional Chinese in Drupal?
There is one comment above saying that he can download the unicode version of tagcloud.swf, I can not find it. If it is possible , I would like to try tagcloud.swf with my Drupal to see if it can animate Traditional Chinese with Drupal cumulus.
If download is not possible, is there an article on how to make one? (I have tried to use Flash CS4 and select character Family with “Arial Unicode MS”, and it does not work)
Thanks.
Comment by Jesse — February 25, 2010 @ 7:22 am
Jesse, the unicode version is still unreleased, but it will work as a drop-in replacement for the current latin-only movie. The CMS is pretty much irrelevant as long as it provides the tags in unicode. The Tag class has been completely rewritten to use the new Textblock and TextLine classes, and then create a bitmap cached copy of the rendered tag to avoid re-antialising. I’m afraid the changes are too extensive for a quick tutorial. Feel free to download the test movie from this page though. If you look in the source code I’m sure you’ll be able to find it. There are FireFox plugins that help you with this too.
Comment by Roy — February 28, 2010 @ 2:56 pm
Dear Roy, Thanks. It worked for Chinese on Drupal 6.15.
By downloading tagcloud.swf from http://www.roytanck.com/wp-content/uploads/unicodetest/tagcloud.swf (found this by using firefox), I have tried with Drupa 6.15 with cumulus module(one of drupal module which create tag clouds), and it works perfectly for all the chinese characters on my site.
I have read several documents from various authors, all of them are using the “character embeding/include these characters” from Flash CS4 (or CS3) to solve Chinese character issue. It is not “universal”. It only worked with the chinese charaters that was included(not for all chinese characters). This is the real solution to chinese characters(think about only 4.7k), amazing.
I still have problem: I am not able to hyperlink the tag to its proper page. From my understanding, I need to wait for the release of the Unicode version. then get the .fla file and work from there. Am i right?
Thanks again.
Comment by Jesse — February 28, 2010 @ 4:32 pm
Hello! To you for that that you do thanks! It is very interesting theme. But at me to you a question. I cannot make anything that Russian was displayed! Help!
Comment by Alexandr — March 7, 2010 @ 9:13 pm
Greetings!
In Russian works, only there is one but…
The cloud turns a mouse, but links in it are not pressed…
I wish successes in your developments.
Alexander
I am sorry for my English if something is not correct
Comment by Alexander — March 10, 2010 @ 3:20 pm
Hi,
Can I put same tag cloud into flash banner?
Thanks!
Comment by Kirill — March 14, 2010 @ 10:29 pm
Kirill, it’s very hard to get the movie into another flash movie, but if you work from the source files it might work. The unicode version is unreleased though, so you may need to modify the font settings and such to get non-latin text in there. There will be a lot of AS3 coding involved to get it to work I’m afraid.
Comment by Roy — March 16, 2010 @ 4:41 pm
Hi Ron, I think the 3D Tag Cloud is exactly what I want for my site. (http://jameswong.com.hk/sing/james
I know nothing about Word press so I got a simple color one using an online generator http://www.tag-cloud.de/ (are you associated with this?)
I still have trouble creating the tag links, reposition and resizing the clouds, and ultimately I need it to be in chinese.
It would be wonderful for everyone if you could also make your stuff available from a similar generator.
Comment by James — March 26, 2010 @ 8:29 am
Hi James. No, I’m not associated with the tag-cloud.de project, other than that they’re using a modifies version of the Flash movie from my project. If you’re having trouble getting their output to work you should probably contact them.
The unicode-supporting version of WP-Cumulus is unfortunately still not ready to be released. The Flash part is almost done, but we’re working on some major new features for the WordPress plugin. Once it’s done we’ll release the source codes so that other projects can benefit from the improvements.
Comment by Roy — March 26, 2010 @ 3:04 pm
Hi Roy
I’ve figured out about tag links and font size, they are all there editable from the file cloud_data.xml.
Now it looks like this : http://jameswong.com.hk/sing/james
Now my only problem is chinese display, I’ve tried saving the same xml file in different encoding, utf-8, big 5.. etc. but still not working.
I have sent tag-cloud.de a mail in this regard and I shall be glad to share it here for all those who knows only basic html copy and paste.
Look forward to your unicode update.
Comment by James — March 27, 2010 @ 10:34 pm
Arabic, Farsi (Persian), and “Somali” (Somali Arabic? lol) looks great
Native Unicode support without glyphs embedding and text direction conversion hacks.. Can’t wait for this
Tested on Windows XP and Linux, both look good
Salaam
Comment by geekgirl — April 9, 2010 @ 9:14 am
very good!
i can see chinese now.
could you send the flash source to my email.
how do you make the chinese words show ?i need the source.
it just take 5kb.
Comment by free — April 17, 2010 @ 2:36 pm
I’m sorry Free, but the unicode version isn’t ready to be released yet.
Comment by Roy — April 17, 2010 @ 2:51 pm
This is great, can I buy or download this program to use on my website?
Comment by ArtemNT — May 6, 2010 @ 6:58 am
Excellent work!! I have seen chinese like ：“汉语“、”乐极生悲“ . My test environment:XP+Firefox
I think it works well for chinese,and if it works well for other too,Please release new unicode version as soon as possible~~
Thanks a lot!
Comment by chiefleo — May 26, 2010 @ 1:39 pm
“If you like you can download the movie to do further tests. I assume you know how to get the swf, right?”
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Hi Roy, how do I get a copy of this unicode file? Thanks.
Comment by David — May 28, 2010 @ 6:05 pm
Hi David. There are many tricks to downloading swf files, many of which come in the form of Firefox add-ons.
I’m not offering a download link because this is not the final movie. In fact, the way it gets tags may change in version 2.0 of my plugin, so this is a visual test only. That it’s a drop-in replacement for the current plugin is simply because nothing else was changed
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Comment by Roy — May 29, 2010 @ 8:00 pm
Hey Roy,
Great stuff – just tested the swf shown here on a Drupal site and it works very well
The problem, as described above, is that the tags are no links.
This solves the current problem of “one missing tag” when using “Distribute tags evenly on cumulus” – but since the tags are not links it’s not currently usable ;/ (and, actually, using the current drupal module i could not get the distribute settings to actually do anything, but i remember i recent comment you’ve made stating the this is a known bug which was fixed in a previous WP upgrade so i’m assuming this fix is available in this version as well – but i cannot test it..)
Another thing is – the Hebrew shown is not as pretty as it is with the embedded version. The text is a bit “flickering” when moving, and not as sharp. BUT the “one missing tags” problem is so critical for us right now that if we can get the links working we’ll ignore the text display problem for now
Any idea on when the source will be available for download?
I’d love to help and get this Drupal-ready whenever you guys are ready…
Comment by Asaph — June 1, 2010 @ 8:03 pm
Not sure when the source code will be available. The next version of the WordPress plugin will probably use a very different data interface, so there’s a lot of rewiring to do.
I know text doesn’t look super in this version. I’m using cached bitmaps, and I think I’ll need to up the resolution a bit to get the fonts to look better.
Tags should be links if they start with “http” and point to a location on the same (sub)domain. This has not changed since 1.23 (which introduced the “http” requirement as a XSS countermeasure).
Comment by Roy — June 4, 2010 @ 12:37 pm
Nice Work! Realy awesome! Thanks
Comment by Deal Paule — June 9, 2010 @ 1:09 pm
Is This Support UTF-8 Characters?
If It Does Where Can I Download This Version Of Wp-Cumulous?
Comment by Saif Hassan — June 15, 2010 @ 7:42 am
I see Georgian language here, it appears. But when I installed on my site does not shows it at all. Please help
Comment by Georgian — June 17, 2010 @ 1:15 pm
I downloaded SWF file from here and now it’s working and displaying Georgian characters. Thank you.
Comment by Georgian — June 17, 2010 @ 1:32 pm
Saif, this is a test. I’m working on a release version that supports utf-8.
Comment by Roy — June 17, 2010 @ 1:49 pm
Georgian, are you sure you got the right file? It should be around 5 kb in size, not 30+ like the old one.
Comment by Roy — June 17, 2010 @ 1:50 pm
Roy, I downloaded this SWF file (from here) and works good now.
Comment by Georgian — June 17, 2010 @ 7:02 pm
Hi Roy,
Thank you very much for your great effort to provide the WP-Cumulus. Especially the Unicode support version is very helpful to me as I am Japanese
I have integrated it in my personal blog site ( http://surferonwww.info/BlogEngine/ ) which uses ASP.NET-based engine provided by BlogEngine.NET. So far it is working fine in Japanese environment. I will report you if I find any problem.
BTW, did you change the setting of “distr” parameter? It seems to me that true/false is opposite between 1.23 and Unicode support versions.
Comment by Shingo Ozaki — June 19, 2010 @ 8:14 am
Hi Shingo. Thanks for reporting. And yes, that setting was accidentally reversed in this test version.
Comment by Roy — June 22, 2010 @ 1:10 pm
Hi Roy,
I can’t see czech national chars, may you add these “classical” czech words?
: žluťoučký kůň úpěl ódy
Many thanks,
Petr
Comment by Petr — July 6, 2010 @ 1:42 pm
I see it can display correctly in Vietnamese. Please tell me how to do that. Thanks.
Comment by Minh Lâm — August 28, 2010 @ 4:39 am
I try to translate this flash like you said in other post but no success for Persian (Arabic charsets) since the arabic charachter are not like en chars
And I see world in wrong way , but this one work , and I simply replace the original tagcloud.swf in my wp-plugin with this one in this page and its work. just there is no box around links . How i can fix this?
Comment by FzerorubigD — August 29, 2010 @ 8:48 pm
I left the boxes out on purpose. You can pass a “hicolor” flashvar to get a rollover effect (text color change). This change will be permanent in version 2.0 of my plugin.
Comment by Roy — September 1, 2010 @ 8:58 am