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[nkint]

Hi!
Sorry, I understand that this is not the right place where to ask this.
I'm a big fan of processing.org and toxiclibs but I'm a little bit bored about java as a language itself.

So here is a question: is there any tutorial or getting started or any other kind of advice to use thi.ng?

[postspectacular]

Hi @nkint, tutorials are non-existing so far, but are on the TODO list... However for examples, there're various snippets lingering throughout the codebase and various workshop repos:

https://github.com/thi-ng/geom/blob/master/src/index.org#example-usage
https://github.com/thi-ng/geom/blob/master/geom-viz/src/core.org#example-usage
https://github.com/thi-ng/geom/blob/master/geom-svg/src/examples.org

https://github.com/thi-ng/ws-ldn-1
https://github.com/thi-ng/ws-ldn-2
https://github.com/learn-postspectacular/resonate-workshop-2015
https://github.com/learn-postspectacular/resonate-workshop-2014

[hlolli]

It would be nice if a slack channel was created for thi.ng. I'm also a beginner and want to learn more and have sometimes questions. But I just ask here then; for svg/path, how do I use is, as string or map?
(svg/path {:M "150 0" :L "75 200 225 200 Z"} {:fill "green"})
or
(svg/path "M 150 0 L 75 200 225 200 Z" {:fill "green"})

Neither seems to work.

[postspectacular]

Hi @hlolli - I personally don't like slack due to its way too truncated history. we're using http://gitter.im/thi-ng/geom, which has unlimited history and is also linked to from the main readme... There're currently ~30 users and I try to reply as often as I can (mostly within a few hours).

As for your SVG question. The whole point of the SVG ns is to avoid having to work directly with the SVG internals. The fns provided all work seamlessly with the geom types and I'd really recommend reading the source code and looking at the various examples.

hth! (if not, see you on the chat :) )