On 1/6/06, David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tim Williams wrote: > > Helena Edelson wrote: > > > > > > Just wondering since Java was mentioned, will you be coding this in xml > > > for Forrest or do you need something in Java for Cocoon? > > > something using JPEGCodec, JPEGImageEncoder, MediaTracker, Graphics2D, > > > Resize, etc? > > > > > > My experience is that uploading the full images and using software/code > > > to generate the thumbnail on the server is memory intensive, although I > > > am not familiar with the readers mentioned by Tim. I know of a dll that > > > resizes on the server on upload but who runs windoz servers anyway. > > Helena, Cocoon already has various compoments for > handling images. See some basic demos here ... > http://cocoon.zones.apache.org/demos/release/samples/imagereader/ > > Tim, there is a patch for a new "imageop" block > sitting in Cocoon Jira which might be of interest. > http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1301 > > -David
Thanks David, That patch appears to expand the image handling capabilities -- which is cool -- but what I'm wanting is simply to write the image variants to disk. I've pretty much got it working but since it's a pretty huge change I want to make sure it's cool with everyone first. Right now, each variant (small, preview, and big) is created in it's own directory manually by the forrest user. What I want is to just be able to drag a bunch of my photo directories into the gallery and have those variants generated by Cocoon automatically -- when I implemented it I also made the change of being filename-based instead of directory based. This works fairly well though as you might imagine the first time through it's still memory intensive too. I also eventually want to make an additional change in behavior. The gallery\ directory will be seen as the root gallery. Any subdirectory of that one can have a gallery.meta file that describes the gallery and also may contain sub-galleries itself. Also, if there happens to be any graphically-gifted folks listening this gallery could use your help because it is pretty rough looking as is. My thought is that to improve it visually we may want to just wait until we can move it to views so that we can use *.fv files as sort of the "Album Layout". --tim
