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1. synessence
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   We are using corePHP's Joomla-integrated WP distribution. One of the features it allows for is the use of WP widgets as a module to be placed in any Joomla module position. If you look at our dev site:
   http://www.zumaphoto.com/joomla
   you can see that I have successfully placed Roy Tanck's wp-cumulus tag cloud into the user6 position (footer, basically) and that it is working. However, I have specified a width of 950 and a height of 190 and it does not seem to be recognizing those params. Color and background color configure correctly. I know this involves a lot of players (corePHP, Joomla, cumulus), so I'm asking for advice in all three places. My hope was that Roy himself might recognize what's going on.

2. roytanck
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   The width and height settings set the size of the Flash movie. But because a sphere is as wide as it is high, the smallest of the two numbers will determine the actual tag cloud's size within that space.

   As far as I can tell, Cumulus does what it's supposed to do. Increasing the height will make the cloud bigger is you want to to be.

3. synessence
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Ah...I see.

   Is there no method of making the cloud more elliptical? I had seen BigBear's Joomla hack in the header of their website
   http://joomlabear.com/Joomulus/
   and it is definitely more ellipsoid than spherical. Any idea how this was accomplished?

4. synessence
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I note that Joomulus has added an x & y scaling parameter for changing the shape of the cloud. Any chance you'd consider adding same, Roy?

5. weefselkweekje
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   I've considered it, but there are actually very few request for it. You could hack the swf to get this effect (see http://www.roytanck.com/2009/03/17/the-top-5-wp-cumulus-hacks/).

6. synessence
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   thanks Roy - that sounds ideal.

   I've downloaded the dev version but upon attempting to open it in Flash CS3 it disallows it as it is a 'protected file'.

   You know a way around this?

   I posted this in your discussion on the site as well - sorry for the cross post if you're getting hammered with RSS

7. roytanck
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   The Flash sources folder has the original .fla file, which is not protected.

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