Releases · sverweij/mscgen_js

little tweaks in the tutorial html
a new color scheme: bluey
a humongous refactoring - functionality should not be affected (tested thoroughly), but as always: bug reports welcome.
- Split off the core functionality (parsing and rendering) to a separate git repo: mscgenjs-core. Why? To enable other modules (like atom-mscgen-preview or the command line interface) to use it with a simple dependency in their package.json.
- Splits off the command line interface to mscgenjs-cli.
- Refactors the rest of the code to use mscgenjs-core.

List of changes: 1.2.3...1.2.4

Assets 2

05 Dec 16:23

sverweij

1.2.3

e56b968

1.2.3

when you generate a piece of HTML with an embedded msc, < is now properly escaped to <
the editor area scales up to size for screens up till 1150px (was 1000px)
various small HTML related fixes and optimizations

List of changes: 1.2.2...1.2.3

Assets 2

29 Nov 16:13

sverweij

1.2.2

2810367

1.2.2

Snazzified CLI & npm packaging preparations

Makes preparations to get mscgen_js in a state where it is an (easily) usable npm package
- a (lazy loading) index.js
- move keys for ci services to ci
- Upgrades the command line interface:
  - conversion to and from mscgen, xu and msgenny
  - conversion to mscgen, xu, msgenny, dot, doxygen, svg, png and jpeg
  - uses graphics rendering with phantomjs instead of jsdom. A bit slower, but accurate because phantomjs does support getBBox
  - this also makes most of the scriptlets in src/script/scriptlets superfluous => ⚡ smaller npm package
The about-box in the interpreter got a refreshment. Less copy, more in style with the newer sliding panels (a.o.t. a light-boxish thing)

Lis of changes: 1.2.1...1.2.2

Assets 2

20 Nov 20:47

sverweij

1.2.1

6f7336b

1.2.1

Small changes.

List: 1.2.0...1.2.1

Assets 2

12 Nov 21:00

sverweij

1.2.0

68d1dc5

1.2.0

Embedding charts from separate files

Enables embedding charts from separate files. Which fixes #211, which was a suggestion from @jbcpollak in issue #206
See Loading from separate files in the embedding guide for more information.
Also updates the bower package

List of all changes: 1.1.0...1.2.0

Sample

Live sample: https://sverweij.github.io/mscgen_js/samples/embedexternal.html

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >
        <script>
          var mscgen_js_config = {
            clickable: true,
            loadFromSrcAttribute: true
          }
        </script>
    <script src='http://localhost:8666/mscgen-inpage.js' defer></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <h2>Read from an external file</h2>
        <div data-src="https://sverweij.github.io/mscgen_js/samples/test21_unicode_colored.mscin"></div>

        <h2>Read from a non-existing external file</h2>
        <p>Should display an error message</p>
        <mscgen data-src="thisfiledoesnotexist.mscin"></mscgen>

        <h2>Embedded in the page and a src attribute</h2>
        <p>
            The stuff in the src attribute wins. In
            this case means we see a unicode exchange, and not labels a,b and c introducing each other
        </p>
        <pre class="mscgen_js" data-src="https://sverweij.github.io/mscgen_js/samples/test21a_unicode_serious.msgenny" data-language="msgenny">
a, b, c;

b => * : hello world;
a >> b : hello b,
c >> b : hello b;
        </pre>
    </body>
</html>

Rendered output

Assets 3

25 Oct 21:25

sverweij

1.1.0

fd52c45

1.1.0

All of unicode as first class citizens

This Friday I realized three things

MscGen, Xù and MsGenny only allow a microscopic subset of unicode in naked entity names ([A-Za-z0-9]+). Which sucks for the majority of humanity.
This is not necessary.
While I don't control the MscGen specification, I do control that of MsGenny. Which means I can fix that.

So I fixed it. From this version on MsGenny treats all unicode characters as first class citizens. This means you no longer have to put non-alpha-numeric identifiers within quotes ("差出人") nor do you have to resort to using labels (sender: 差出人;). Instead, you can write

差出人 -> 受信機: 信息;

to get

(Click the chart to open it in the interpreter)

List of all changes (mostly dependency updates): 1.0.7...1.1.0

Assets 3

18 Oct 20:16

sverweij

1.0.7

21e1482

1.0.7

Functionality

Improves error messages concerning missing entities in (in mscgen and xù)
Adds a command line interface (see src/script/cli). Works fine. Two caveats:
- still uses jsdom, so chart features relying on getBBox calculations look sub-optimal.
- command line options are not 100% posixy: node mscgen.js -T svg -i input.msc -o output.svg works, but node mscgen.js -Tsvg -i input.svg -o output.svg (note the missing space between -T and svg) does not.
Adds (scripts for creating) a Bower package. See https://github.com/sverweij/mscgen_js-inpage-package.

Tech stuff

Automates external as well as internal dependency management (with npm-check-updates and js-makedepend respectively).
Upgrades of various dependencies.
mscgen_js' syntax highlighting for mscgen, xù and msgenny in codemirror was merged into the code mirror repo, so we're using that now.
Clarifies failing tests (none at the moment, thank you :-) ) by using chai and chai-xml.

List of all changes: 1.0.0...1.0.7

Assets 3

15 Sep 13:02

sverweij

1.0.0

00e5b6b

Release 1.0.0

A bump to 1.0.0?

Yep. This means I'm confident the package (both library and interpreter) will behave as I intend it to.

Changes: polishing

Rendering:

Arrows get the same color as the line they're part of.
Label positions are optimized to decrease the chance of text/ line collisions.
Self reference arcs now render as a curve instead of as three straight lines.
Pixel tweaking in notes, emphasis and method arcs and in the self reference variant of lost arcs.
Empty labels don't get rendered anymore (no visible difference, just a smaller svg).

In some circumstances the difference is very noticeable (click on the image to view it in the online interpreter):

[](https://sverweij.github.io/mscgen_js/index.html?lang=mscgen&utm_source=releasenotes&utm_campaign=1.0.0&msc=msc {%0A hscale%3D"1.15"%2C%0A wordwraparcs%3D"true"%3B%0A%0A Alice [linecolor%3D"%23008800"%2C textbgcolor%3D"%23CCFFCC"%2C arclinecolor%3D"%23008800"]%2C%0A Bob [linecolor%3D"%23FF0000"%2C textbgcolor%3D"%23FFCCCC"%2C arclinecolor%3D"%23FF0000"]%3B%0A%0A Alice %3D> Alice [label%3D"sign message with own private key"]%3B%0A Alice %3D> Bob [label%3D"message signed with Alice her private key"]%3B%0A Bob %3D> Alice [label%3D"get Alice her public key"]%3B%0A Alice >> Bob [label%3D"Alices' public key"]%3B%0A Bob %3D> Bob [label%3D"verify message with Alice her public key"]%3B%0A})

Web page optimizations:

Pages load all vector assets from one, small font.
That asset font (already in use) is smaller.
In the interpreter rendering logic politely waits until typing is done. This makes typing larger charts more comfortable.
Editor:
- improved syntax highlighting.
- The editor area resizing now accommodates more and larger screen sizes.

I also reorganized the code a bit and updated the build process so I can deploy more than one branch at the same time.

Details of all changes since release 0.9.95: 0.9.95...1.0.0

Assets 3

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