Integration with SVG-Edit

bartbutenaers / node-red-contrib-ui-svg

A Node-RED widget node to show interactive SVG (vector graphics) in the dashboard

Apache License 2.0

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Integration with SVG-Edit #5

Closed bartbutenaers closed 4 years ago

bartbutenaers commented 5 years ago

Currently there is no SVG drawing editor integrated with this node. It looks to me that SVG-EDit online editor can be integrated with this node (via their embedapi: I could send our SVG string and let them render it as a drawing, and - as soon as the changes are made in SVG-edit - the updated SVG string would be stored automatically in our node.

I'm not sure if this would be useful?
The memory footprint of this node would grow, since the SVG-Edit libraries need to be included in this node.

Steve-Mcl commented 5 years ago

Bart, found this

It may shortcut development time for embedding SVG editor

bartbutenaers commented 5 years ago

Indeed a good code snippet to get started!!

bartbutenaers commented 5 years ago

@Quagmireman, Some feedback on your proposal:

I had chosen SVG-edit, because it is a web application & it can be run locally & it has an API that allows it to be embedded?
I know that Inkscape is popular, but I thought it was not a web application?
The Method-Draw editor that you mention, seems to be not maintained anymore on Github. Moreover I see that it is a fork of SVG-Edit, so then we are back at our original proposal.

But if we ever find another web-based SVG editor with a simple API, we can always add it as an extra integration for our node... Bart

bartbutenaers commented 4 years ago

We have integrated DrawSvg instead.