Posted by sime on July 8, 2007 at 1:07pm
I am just working away on a site and Eyedrop decided to start working for some reason. So I made a video of the rare moment!
http://emspace.com.au/node/47
Eyedrop makes an appearance
I am just working away on a site and Eyedrop decided to start working for some reason. So I made a video of the rare moment!
http://emspace.com.au/node/47
Comments
Awesome news Simon :D I've
Awesome news Simon :D
I've been looking forward to the future day when Drupal would sport this awesome feature. Keep up the great work man! Is it the currently posted dev version that worked for you? If so I'll go ahead and install it locally and try my hand at it again (it's been many months since I last tried).
Again, thanks for your efforts to add this to Drupal :)
Yes, the dev version is what
Yes, the dev version is what I'm on. Configuration docs are here http://drupal.org/node/119604
Remember I'm not supporting this at the moment, so seriously consider whether you should attempt to set it up - a few people have tried in the past and failed.
Anyone who wants to trial the real thing, you can email me and I'll contact you in the coming months for special access.
Looks Great -- Why not called Crop?
This looks great!
But why not call it crop?
Eyedrop to me implies that you're doing color picking, which is not what the video shows at all -- this is more on-the-fly image-cropping.
Regardless, this looks great and will hopefully move Drupal towards better image support.
Incidentally, I was just listening to Lullabot's 25th podcast where they were talking about using jQuery for this exact type of feature.
Eyedrop is derived from eye
Eyedrop is derived from eye = visual and drop = drop.org. The main reason why I've avoided the "crop" label is that the plan is to make this more generic and have other possible actions (eg watermark, border) working in tandem with the imagecache, which was at the request of dopry and which should be cool. Unfortunately I need to get better at jquery plugins because I suck.
Sometimes I encounter the perception that this has been done before. There are many javascript cropping code examples going around, and some people compare those to this. Also, there are many upload+crop routines going around, particularly with regard to user profile pictures. The aim with Eyedrop is to make actions like cropping totally pluggable, so cropping is only a small part of the overall picture - so I don't know whether my javascript is considered good or bad but since it is created from scratch it could ship with the editor without license issues.
In the past I've had some trouble marketing this, because setting up a live demo is problematic. It needs to be an admin function, otherwise you allow anonymous users to trigger GD events on your server and that could get nasty. The video is probably a better choice, I should have done it ages ago.
Regarding Lullabot, Nathan Haug is aware of this tool so if they want or need collaborate I'm sure they will and I welcome that. But if they don't... that's open source and I don't mind either way, you've got to scratch your own itch after all. :)