[opencms-dev] dev of auto-img-scale-down-feature for upload.jar in progress, feedback wanted...

[John Bieling]

I just looked at the source of the upload.jar and it does not seem to be 
so hard to implement the auto-scale-down of uploaded images... There is 
a function called  "addFileToZip" which is the only point that needs to 
be changed. If the file that is to be added is an img, scale it before 
adding it.

But I am not so sure about the "look & feel", here are my sugestion, any 
feedback would be helpfull.

First, I want the admin of the page to preset some max height and max 
width, maybee even allow to force that without asking during upload.
Second, if the admin does not use that force-feature, each time an img 
is processed a new window pops up with
 - img preview
 - img name
 - option to "leave as is" - "scale to preset" and "scale to custom"
 - also a "dont ask again and process all upcoming images like this 
one"-checkbock

My clients often have no idea how to edit their camera images, so I 
think that at a later stage, in that window the user can also select 
which PART of the source image is to be uploaded.

Now some technical stuff, where to store the flags (force scaling  
yes/no, max height/width for each site- there could be more than one 
site in one installation) for the applet, direct in the database? I 
think i have no acces to the vfs with the opencms-functions from the 
applet, or do I?

Thanks
John B.