Re: [binarycloud-dev] binarycloud/base/mod

[Albert L. <a.l...@ve...>]

I use a simple clear image trick that works great when wrestling with tricky
table configurations. I like the idea of manipulating image sizes easily,
but was a little lost in your description there.

Alby

> Is anyone interested in an ImageRequestManager which would use a static
> embed tag like the module embeds:
>
> <bc:image id="SomeImageID" />
>
> the reason I thought of doing this:
>     -if people use this 'embed' tag, the make system can use a central
image
> info repository to build well-formed tags that include alts, the _real_
> width and height of an image, etc. Of course we could allow overrides:
>
> <bc:image id="SomeImageID" alt="Some Other Alt You want" width="20" />
>
> but in general you'd just use the simple tag.
>
> I can imagine that being convenient for me... would it be convenient for
> anyone else?
>
> The xml would probably look like:
>
> <!-- binarycloud image repository example file -->
> <!--
> used in conjunction with:
>     <bc:image id="SomeImageID" />
> -->
> <images>
>     <image>
>         <!--
>         This ID is used by the make system. Required.
>         -->
>         <id>bcFire</id>
>         <!--
>         The image source. We could set a constant called
>         BC_PATH_IMAGES or something that would allow make
>         to know that it should prepend that value to all
>         image paths
>         -->
>         <src>resources/images/binarycloud/tmpl/fire.jpg</src>
>         <!--
>         The value of the 'name' attribute in the img tag
>         -->
>         <name>ImageName</name>
>         <!--
>         The alt attribute. Note the language reference
>         -->
>         <alt:en>binarycloud fire</alt:en>
>         <!--
>         The 'align' attribute in the img tag
>         -->
>         <align>left</align>
>
>         <hspace>10</hspace>
>         <vspace>10</vspace>
>         <!--
>         If left undefined, this is assumed to be 0
>         -->
>         <border>0</border>
>         <usemap>#moo</usemap>
>         <!--
>         only specify these if you want to override the make system's
>         automatic image-checking features
>         -->
>         <width>400</width>
>         <height>20</height>
>     </image>
> </images>
>
> Of course the other possibility is to turn this into an Entity, and run
> image makes from the database... hehehe
>
> best,
>
> _alex
>