Software Updates

Two updates today, in preperation for an upcoming project release.

Loading Daialogs

worldKit can now display messages while images and RSS are loading (so that users aren't left thinking something is broken while waiting for the network ;). Documentation on this is in Window/Timing.

• <showload>: Set to "true" to display messages while images and RSS are loading. Default value is "false".
  
• <loadimgmsg>: Specify a string for display while images are loading. Must set to "true" for this to be effective. Default value is "Loading Images...".
  
• <loadrssmsg>: Specify a string for display while RSS is loading. Must set to "true" for this to be effective. Default value is "Loading Points...".
  

Triggering RSS load from Javascript

Javascript can now trigger RSS loading in worldKit. There are 1001 potential uses for this bit of functionality, in Rich Internet Applications, Annotations, etc. Documentation in Javascript to worldKit communication.

JLoadComm: Set the value to trigger worldKit to load an RSS feed. Pass "dataurl" or "updateurl" to load feeds specified in the config.xml. Or alternatively, pass a url to load an arbitrary RSS feed.