[etoys-dev] remove the free-standing .gif?

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 12.09.2009, at 00:58, Michael McKelvey wrote:

> Quoth the venerable Bert Freudenberg:
>>
>> On 11.09.2009, at 20:53, Michael McKelvey wrote:
>>
>>> Squeak Developers,
>>>
>>> I'm sorry I'm only just replying to this message... I've been out  
>>> sick all week and am just catching up on email.
>>>
>>> Currently, when Kathleen Harness uploads a project to the   
>>> EtoysIllinois site, she also uploads the GIF image that is   
>>> automatically generated upon saving an Etoys project.  If you are   
>>> talking about a change wherein a PNG file will be created instead  
>>> of  a GIF file, that would be just fine for our purposes.  I am  
>>> not sure  that's what you are talking about, though, as I don't  
>>> quite  understand the following line from the message below:
>>>
>>> "start using the .png thumbnail embedded in the outer .pr file"
>>>
>>> Could someone please describe what the proposed changes would  
>>> mean  for us, particularly since we are running our server using  
>>> Apache &  PHP, not a Squeak-based webserver like a SuperSwiki?   
>>> Would we need  to be able to somehow extract a PNG file from the  
>>> PR file?  I'm not  sure whether we would be able to do that using  
>>> PHP.  Thank you very  much for any help you can offer us!
>>
>>
>> You can easily do that on PHP, it is really simple:
>>
>> An Etoys project file is simply a zip file:
>> ===============
>> Faust:Etoys bert$ unzip -t Heart.001.pr
>> Archive:  Heart.001.pr
>>    testing: Heart.001.pr             OK
>>    testing: Heart.001.rc.gz          OK
>>    testing: Heart.html               OK
>>    testing: manifest                 OK
>>    testing: thumbnail.png            OK
>> No errors detected in compressed data of Heart.001.pr.
>> ===============
>>
>> So to extract the thumbnail, simply do the equivalent of
>>
>> ===============
>> Faust:Etoys bert$ unzip Heart.001.pr  thumbnail.png
>> Archive:  Heart.001.pr
>> extracting: thumbnail.png
>> ===============
>>
>> See? Easy :)
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>
> Ok, that is very manageable.  How long has the PNG thumbnail been  
> included in the PR file?  Is that a relatively new feature?


It will be included in the upcoming release. You can test using the  
latest ToGo beta from

http://squeakland.org/download/

(works on Mac, Win, Linux).

- Bert -