[Laszlo-dev] delete amazon autopngs?

[Jim Grandy]

Hey John,

May I suggest that you look in the laszlo-dev archives on topics like  
this before posting? Below is Phill's original message from July 31,  
and there has been much traffic on the subject since then.

> I am writing some scripts which can be integrated into the build  
> process and will generate .png files for each .swf file in the  
> system as a first step towards rasterizing components for use in  
> DHTML. I want to be able to keep track of which .png files were  
> created manually and are therefore not to be replaced by the  
> automated png generator. I had some baroque thoughts about managing  
> a database pf pathnames. Then I thought to put the generated .png  
> files in a special (automatically generated) subdirectory of the  
> directory in which the swf appears (legals/.../autopng). The  
> compiler would look for a hand-generated or approved .png in the  
> same directory as the swf. Then, if there is none, the compiler  
> would look for a png in the autopng subdirectory. Max suggested it  
> might be better to name the files resourcename.swf.png to show they  
> were autogenerated, and avoid creating unnecessary subdirectories,  
> but to me it seems that parsing and tracking the double file type  
> is more complicated than just putting the autogenerated files in a  
> separate subdirectory. Thoughts?


On Nov 15, 2006, at 6:05 AM, John Sundman wrote:

> I thought that I had missed some new image format (autopng), but a  
> little googling seems to indicate that autopng's are a Laszlo-ism.
>
> I'm confused, however, as to whether they're a tool that needs to  
> be explained to people moving over to Legals for DHTML, or whether  
> they're merely an artifact of our own interal processes.
>
> Any light on this would be appreciated.
>
> jrs
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 15, 2006, at 8:32 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>
>> I think autopng should refuse to autopng anything with more than  
>> 3-4 frames.  Make the developer think about what they really want.
>>
>> On 2006-11-15, at 01:11 EST, Benjamin Shine wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> We're carrying around 10 mb of unused images and 10 mb of svn  
>>> info about the unused images for the amazon demo; see evidence at  
>>> end of message. I want to clear this out before we make legals-b1  
>>> distros.
>>>
>>> http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-2938 shows that the  
>>> amazon demo is scheduled to be fixed for Legals B2.
>>> http://svn.openlaszlo.org/openlaszlo/branches/legals/demos/amazon/ 
>>> images/autoPng/
>>>
>>> I propose either
>>> 1) delete amazon autopngs from legals-b1 branch but don't touch  
>>> amazon autopngs in legals branch
>>> 2) delete amazon autopngs from legals branch, carry that deletion  
>>> into autopngs, and do a stopgap measure to stop using the  
>>> resources which become many frames of autopngs. That's what I did  
>>> for calendar.
>>>
>>> Jim? Mamye?
>>>
>>> [ben at linux-builder amazon]$ cd /home/ben/src/svn/openlaszlo/ 
>>> branches/legals/demos/amazon
>>> [ben at linux-builder amazon]$ du -k . | sort -n | tail -10
>>> 12     ./images/.svn/text-base
>>> 924     ./images/autoPng/.svn/prop-base
>>> 924     ./images/autoPng/.svn/props
>>> 924     ./images/autoPng/.svn/wcprops
>>> 1604    ./images/.svn
>>> 10548   ./images/autoPng/.svn/text-base
>>> 13448   ./images/autoPng/.svn
>>> 23992   ./images/autoPng26108   ./images
>>> 26516   .
>>>
>>> That's disk usage in kilobytes for the directory listed and its  
>>> contents, sorted from lowest to highest, selecting only the  
>>> highest 10 results. Run that same command from $LPS_HOME for big  
>>> fun.
>>>
>>> benjamin shine
>>> software engineer
>>> ben at laszlosystems.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

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