Basically in many web frameworks and templates such as jquery UI they provide an image file which contains all the icons used in a framework. What I need is to select particular icon from this image file(framework uses it for its own widgets), how to do that? I know the benefits behind putting icons in a single image file, but not the technique to retrieve them.
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Recently started work on a BigCommerce project and on the homepage I want to have a theme area where normal site admin users can upload their own images based on holidays (Xmas, halloween etc) in the theme editor.
I know how to add in some custom elements in the theme editor using the Schema and Config files (headings, text, font colours etc), and how to reference them in the homepage. I'm also fine with referencing set images in the assets folder which aren't going to change, and manually coding references to them.
However I can't quite seem to work out how to add a custom image upload to the theme editor, or how to reference it in a page. Can't seem to find any answers in the Stencil documentation or usual Google searches etc either.
The Stencil Theme Editor currently only supports the file upload data type in the Optimized One-Page Checkout customization settings, but there are a couple of possible workarounds to allow the user to upload their custom background image and then reference it in Theme Editor settings:
One option would be to have the user upload their image to WebDAV, making sure that their image followed a naming convention that you specified. For example, the Halloween image could be required to have the file name halloween.png. You could map that value to a Theme Editor dropdown setting for Holiday Background>Halloween.
Another solution might be to have the user upload their image to WebDAV as mentioned above, but instead of a dropdown menu, you could have the user type their file's name into a text input setting in the Theme Editor. Keep in mind though that there's a 64 character limit for input values.
Hope this helps!
There are 4 ways to get images into the BigCommerce store.
You can:
Upload into the content folder through webdav. Then the images would be referenced like url.com/content/image.jpg. This does require a webdav connection and while everything does point you to using file managers like cyberduck, you can actually map a drive to a network resource to make this super easy. This mean you can create a z drive that is actually your bigcommerce content upload through webdav. It's pretty easy to set up and for customers to use. The drawback is that these files do not get put on a CDN so there's a little loss of performance.
Upload into the theme's images folders. This is complex and would require your client to figure out the stencil local dev connection and push versions up to their store. This would allow the images to be CDN'd but is super complex and your clients won't figure it out... It could also expose you to some long-term version control issues as they may be overwriting you or vice versa.
You can use the media manager to upload images. If you're referring to them in code, an easy trick is when your clients want to replace an image, to delete it and upload a new one with the exact same name... then the reference doesn't break. This is the easiest way to deal with site-wide issues from the client-side. Images are CDN'd this way as well.
You can consider using the marketing banner function for semi-temporary marketing messages. This is what it is made for, the images will be CDN'd and it's full GUI with no techy connections for your clients to figure out. This is perfect for banners that span a single page, but I don't think there is currently a side-wide setting for locations.
As requested in this thread on our.umbraco, i want to create a new property editor, that allows for the content editor to select an image both from their local hard-drive and the media archive, to then be cropped right in the content section. Basically combining two already existing property editors.
This image gives a general idea about what i want to achieve:
http://i.imgur.com/DAqyKeT.png
Right now it is possible to use the image cropper on the images in the media section, but it would be more user friendly to have this functionality in the content section.
I am quite new to Umbraco and creating custom property editors, but I would like to know if this is possible.
I am a beginner with Umbraco. I am able to upload images to the Media Library and then put them onto the page, but for my sidebars I want the images to be clickable links to other parts of my site and other sites.
At the moment I am using the Rich Text Editor to write an anchor tag etc. but this seems ridiculous and I don't want content authors [attempting to be] writing HTML.
It seems like there should be a built-in data type for this, or a property on the image but I see nothing. Do I need to write my own Razor code as a DataType? This seems like such a common thing that I'm surprised there is not a built-in solution.
I'm using 7.2.8
If you're already using the RTE, you can just select the image and click the Link button, then whatever you have selected (in this case the image) should become a link. No need to make your own HTML :-)
I'd like to be able to generate my own thumbnails for some image files with custom extensions (say, a .canon file that is really a TIFF), so that Finder would use them.
I don't want to change the file contents (nor am I interested in the embedded tiff thumbnail).
Creating the thumbnail from the file's contents would be easy, the tricky part is integration. Does anyone know if it's possible?
The custom extensions won't be associated to any/other app.
I've done a lot of iOS development but know very little about OS X components.
If it's not possible to use Finder at all, is it at least possible to store the thumbnails in resource forks and have them used by, say, a custom filesystem browser?
File thumbnails, as well as full-size previews (which are displayed when you tap the space bar), can be generated dynamically by Quick Look plugins for any file type that they're registered for. The thumbnails do not need to be stored in the file, although you can certainly use pregenerated thumbnails if they're already in there.
For more information on Quick Look, please refer to Apple's Quick Look Programming Guide.
I have a document which consists of multiple contents, let's say a msword file, an jpeg image file and a mp4 video file, and when the user clicks on that document in content navigator, he must be able to see the contents available as we get in Workplace XT.
A separate link for msword,jepg and mp4. Is it possible to configure ICN like this?
ICN does not provide an option to view multiple content elements as separate file - like Workplace / XT. However, using the viewer, you can navigate between multiple content elements. If you have a requirement to provide this option, it is pretty easy. You can create a plugin for displaying multiple content elements and add it to document context menu. You can probably create a custom dialog widget to display these content elements as separate links.