SignText license opinions

[Stuart Thiessen]

Steve,

It would seem to me that it would take a fairly simple change in your  
reading routines to tell it that the first element in a compact string  
is the lane followed by the symbol information. I guess I am wondering  
why you would consider it easier to do it after instead of before?  
Then the XML and the compact versions can be relatively identical in  
their structures.

Stuart

On 7 Nov 2007, at 15:50 , Steve Slevinski wrote:

> Hi Bill,
> There's no problem with the translation between the 2.  It's quick  
> and easy. The lane is at the end of the compact syntax for 2  
> reasons.  First, each line is a valid build string that works with  
> existing image scripts.  Second, the lane information can be omitted  
> when writing with a single lane.
> But now that I look at it, it does seem that the compact syntax is  
> backwards when compared to the XML.
> When looking at
> <sign lane="0">
>  <symbol x="10" y="15">01-01-001-01-01-01</symbol>
>  <symbol x="20" y="55">02-01-001-01-01-01</symbol>
>  <symbol x="70" y="17">03-01-001-01-01-01</symbol>
> </sign>
> Instead of:
> 01 
> -01 
> -001 
> -01-01-01,10,15,02-01-001-01-01-01,20,55,03-01-001-01-01-01,70,17,0
> Perhaps it should be:
> 0,10,15,01 
> -01-001-01-01-01,20,55,02-01-001-01-01-01,70,17,03-01-001-01-01-01
> This transformation was much easier to do by hand, but there is no  
> way I'd ever want to do this by hand.
> I'd prefer to keep the compact syntax as ([id,x,y]*,lane) rather  
> than (lane,[x,y,id]*). Regards,
> -Steve
> Bill Reese wrote:
>> Only thing I can see, Steve, is that you give lanes different  
>> priority.  In XML syntax it's first, before the symbols- in compact  
>> syntax it's last, after the symbols.  Would keeping it first in the  
>> compact syntax allow a smoother translation between the two?
>>
>> Bill
>
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