If somebody has a working config.json file that combines all the modern
files into one.
Please share!

Greetings,
Ralf

2010/8/11 thron7 <[email protected]>

>
>
> On 08/10/2010 07:08 PM, eduardo zuviria wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm working in deploying a qooxdoo (version 1.2) app in the Google app
> > engine. For optimization reasons i want to combine the
> > modern theme images in a only a few files and I'm not interest in
> > compatibility with IE6. But for some reason that i coudn't figure out,
> > the application is still referencing the individual images and not the
> > combined files. (Tried using different browsers).
>
> The information about the combined images is conferred at compile time.
> The application has to be built with the "knowledge" that there are
> combined images. See further down.
>
> > I look at some threads in the forum but no luck finding the reason.
> >
> > This is what i'm doing:
> >
> > - create a default  qooxdoo app, test2.
> >
> > - copy the images from the modern theme to a folder
> > ./source/images/test2/Modern
>
> This is your first mistake. Resources, like images, have to go into the
> source/resource folder (or, more exactly, the sub-path that is specified
> in your Manifest.json for resources, which is usually
> 'source/resource'). Beneath this folder, everything has to start with a
> name space (this was your second mistake). So (as I don't assume your
> application has the name space "images"), the path should look somewhat
> like this
>
>  ./source/resource/myapp/images/test2/Modern
>
>
> >
> > - combine images (only using the form folder with the button images just
> > for testing), this is my image.json file:
>
> Third: In order to create combined images, you don't have to copy the
> source images around. In your image.json, just give their source path,
> and specify the output (combined) file in your own resource path. Still,
> the combined image must have your app's name space.
>
> >
> > - run generate.py -c image.json image-combine, it generates the combine
> > image with the meta file:
> >
> > {"test2/Modern/form/button-b.png": [4, 4, "png",
> > "test2/combined/form-combined.png", -915, 0], rest of file ....
>
> This looks basically ok, but as I said it's in the wrong path, and it
> contains probably the wrong resource id's, depending on what your are
> trying to achieve.
>
> >
> > /*
> ************************************************************************
> >
> >
> > #asset(test2/Modern/*)
>
> You have to use *resource id's* here. A resource id starts with a name
> space, down to the file name, optionally shortened by a glob. So this
> should rather be
>
>  #asset(myapp/images/test2/Modern/*)
>
>
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/16/places/folder-open.png)
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/16/places/folder.png)
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/16/mimetypes/office-document.png)
> >
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/16/actions/window-close.png)
> >
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/22/places/folder-open.png)
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/22/places/folder.png)
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/22/mimetypes/office-document.png)
> >
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/32/places/folder-open.png)
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/32/places/folder.png)
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/32/mimetypes/office-document.png)
> >
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/16/apps/office-calendar.png)
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/16/apps/utilities-color-chooser.png)
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/16/actions/view-refresh.png)
> >
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/16/actions/dialog-cancel.png)
> > #asset(qx/icon/Tango/16/actions/dialog-ok.png)
>
> If you want to just replace the qooxdoo images used by framework code
> (decorations, icons, ...) you need their original resource id's. That
> is, if your combined image's meta file contains a key
> "test2/Modern/form/button-b.png" (these keys are taken as resource
> id's!), it will never be picked up in places where the resource id
> "qx/decoration/Modern/form/button-b.png" is required. If you insist on
> copying images around, you have to copy them to your source/resource
> folder with the exact resource path they had in their original location
> (starting with "qx/...").
>
>
> > - run generate.py build , it creates the build with the combine image
> > but without the individual files from the modern theme.
>
> Currently, you cannot avoid the individual files being copied. But you
> can avoid them being used.
>
> >
> > But the app is still looking for the individual images!
>
> The problem is that the images in your combined images will never be
> considered. And how could they?! Their "names" (i.e. resource id's) are
> e.g. "test2/Modern/form/button-b.png", but there is not a single line of
> JS code that refers to this name. They are all looking for
> "qx/decoration/Modern/form/button-b.png"!
>
> Here is what I recommend:
>
> - Don't copy the images, just reference them in your images.json. Just
> make sure you specify the correct prefix for them (ending in
> "...framework/source/resource").
>
> - Run the combined job, check the combined image (by looking at it) that
> it contains the images you wanted, and check the .meta file to see that
> the keys are really the resource id's of framework images.
>
> - In your own code (e.g. theme), specify your *combined images* in
> #asset hints, e.g.:
>
>  #asset(myapp/test/Modern/form-combined.png)
>
> This is necessary so they get copied over with the build version.
>
> - As I said you cannot prevent the individual images being copied during
> the build job. But you could e.g. delete them after the build step. Your
> app should run with just the combined images.
>
> HTH. Get back if you have further issues.
>
> T.
>
>
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