Concordle - Not so pretty cousin of Wordle

Help with Concordle Clear the input Clear the output Clear concordances

Help text in Concordle
What can you do with Concordle?  It is easily understood when you just click on all the links. I have chosen to use the links instead of buttons, they have the same usability, but the links are simpler. They just work.  In the first text field is as a standard my example text.  This can be cleaned and new text entered, probably you will just copy some text from a web page.  The omitted words - they are omitted from the analysis and the display,but they are kept in the memory.  The cloud of words can be clicked on - snippets of neighbouring text are shown in the concordance area.
 You can also click on the various snippets - i.e. on the middle word there - and a new large snippet of about 60 words will appear. The omitted words are visible there.  All of the extra text areas can be closed by clicking on the appropriate link How to save something from this page?  If you use SeaMonkey, you can copy and paste the text into the composer window, change the fonts to anything reasonably nice, and save the results. The cloud can be shrinked or stretched. Try that This page is the programme. Just save the page and you have the program too.  The whole source is about 770 lines,  many of them empty. From these 770 about 500 lines are the program in Javascript, with many comments. You might be able to change many details in function and appearance, if you read and change the source.  To change the source, use a text editor. Read also the bottom of this page.  This is all "preliminary", but you never know, it might stay that way.  Plans: Add color variation, improve the table cloud function, make a double concordle.  This help text belongs to the first usable version, September 30th, 2008 And here is a screenshot with hints: Part of my motivation for this project is simply to learn JavaSript to a certain degree necessary for my plans to do some graphics using  Canvas and some simple teaching examples using an approach similar to Concordle. This means: Simple "Rapid Prototyping" style of programming; Rather richly commented code; You can see the code most of the time; Another piece of motivation: I would like to have examples for the discussion of
the sad state of programming on this Planet. All the libraries, objects, version controls,
Visual Studio(s) and IDE system (integrating development environments) make the code
unavailable. Here is my tribute to spagheti code - but with comments.

Concordle is a TOY. But I hope that you will see its potential. New features kept coming
up - keeping me from my other work (a bit). Now concordle is in a stage I can live with.

I would like to have a Twin Concordle, where all functions are working for two parallel texts,
 clicking on one will also do similar things in the other one (the concordance snippets) - and
 these could be seen beside each other. But for this I think the code should be a bit redesigned.

As you can see in the code, it just contains copies and copies of copies of code snippets and   
 functions. This should be filtered into smaller number of functions with slightly more general   
 functionality - and after all - a little bit of code design.

Omitted words:
the and is are
(Baby) Concordle-Cloud Ordered-Cloud Concordle-Ordered Concordle-Foggy cloud

In this area will appear the word cloud when you click on one of the
Concordle links (buttons?) above

In this area appear snippets arround words
clicked on in the cloud in the above area. This is the concordance area.

Concordle is written entirely in simple JavaScript
and the whole code is inside of this document.
In addition to this final code, there are also
versions of various steps in the development.
These are available at the other Concordle home page.
The story of Concordle is told (with detailed help) at Concordle's Google blogspot The author is no expert in JavaScript. Suggestions for
understandable improvements are very welcome.
At this stage, the example text explains some aspects of Concordle.

Ladislav Kocbach
Institutt for fysikk og Teknologi )
( Department of Physics and Technology )
University of Bergen,
Bergen, Norway