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TAToo

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FlashTAT (Flash Text Analysis Tools) is a project of ubiquitous text analysis tools. The first product of the FlashTAT project is TAToo (Text Analysis for me Too), a Flash widget that you can embed in web pages to call basic text analysis tools from the TAPoR project. TAToo was developed by Peter Organisciak under the supervision Geoffrey Rockwell.

Try It Out

See TAToo in action at the FlashTAT test page.

Design Your TAToo

Customize TAToo for you own blog or website. If you use it, let us know!

Contribute

Suggest features, report bugs, or play with the code at the FlashTAT development repository.

What is It?

TAToo is an embeddable Flash widget which provides embedded TAPOR analytics for the page on which it resides. Some of TAToo's features are:

Use

Basic Use

To include TAToo in your page, use the following embed code: 
<object width="200" height="400">
<embed src="!TAToo.swf" allowscriptaccess="always" quality="high"  type="application" width="200" height="400">
</embed></object>
Replace !TAToo.swf with the location of the widget. If you would like to use the version hosting on this wiki, enter http://tada.mcmaster.ca/wikita/pub/Main/FlashTAT/TAToo1.swf. The width and height can also be modified.

Parameters

To extend the default options of the widget, include a param tag with the name attribute "TATOptions" within the embed code's object tag. In the value of the tag, include name/value pairs, with colons separating name and value and semicolon separating the pairs. This form is similar to that of the "style" attribute in XHTML.

Consider the following example options: 

<param name="TATOptions" value="htmlTag:body;stylesheet:style.css;defaultTool:results;catHeaderBG:#FF0000;resultsHeaderBG:#004488" />

General Options

Name Default Details
endPoint http://tapor1-dev.mcmaster.ca/~restserv/html/ ADVANCED: Directory of endpoint url. Use this if you hope to point TAToo to a different server. link should be in the following form: url(http://www...)
defaultTool List Words Tool to run on load of TAToo. Current options include "Word Cloud" and "List Words". The latter is default, so does not need to be specified.
htmlTag body Tag to examine on page. Choose the element on the page to examine. Use this if "body" does not produce proper results.
stopList glasgow Current options are "none" and "glasgow" (default).

Styling Options

TAToo supports limited styling, through CSS. Colours are written is standard CSS form (i.e. "#000000"). Currently, only six character hex numbers work. Using colour names and shorthand three character values will not work.

Name Details
results-header-color The colour of regular category headers.
header-color The colour of the "results" category header.
background-color The TAToo general background colour.

More

TAToo Wordpress Plugin

Technical Details

TAToo Technical Details - See snippets of code worth sharing.

Bugs

Bugs can be reported at http://code.google.com/p/flashtat/. If you do not have a Google account, feel free to note them here and I will transfer the over.

-- PeterOrganisciak - 06 Jul 2008

Current Version (this is a preview. Note that functionality may not work or work incorrectly).

Note: Why does there seem to be discord between the results and what you seem? If you click "more options", you'll notice a lot more text on this page, and you can see why "PeterOrganisciak" appears so much. For a more common array of text, try the FlashTAT test page.


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