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Written by Nakul Ganesh S   

 Hmm, . . . . 

He he I know what you are thinking J! Studio?

Well I think it sounds  just great :)

  • So what is J! Studio ?

      J! Studio is a standalone component,that I intend to call from within the Media Manager .Well,thats the main idea ,but it can       be called from elsewhere as well.

  • Why as a separate component ?

      The media manager is already as such sort of clogged up. Trying to add functionalities into it with would make things pretty       hard for me.So I thought that I rather implement is as a separate component . Besides ,it allows me to integrate it into                 something else  other than the media manager.Maybe it can be put inside the WYSIWYG editors.

 

  • What can J! Studio do ?

      First off the editor works like a charm,as of now it supports the following:

1)Resizing

2)Flip(horizontal/vertical)

3)Rotate(90/180/270)

4)Grey Scaling.

  • What features are expected in the near future ?

      Very soon I shall update with a host of new features and special effects including cropping. Also work is going on to                   implement the J! Studio from within a modal box using AJAX. Right now it is within an iframe in the Media Manager,but not         for long.

  • Bugs as of now ?

      There are quite a few bugs as of now,they are:

1)Image is not dynamically updated after the edit is applied.

2)The effects can be applied only once . That is once an image is select ,the edit can be done only once. The editor breaks down when its tried twice due to invalid parameters passed.

  • Any browser issues ?

      No, as of now the editor works perfectly fine within all the Grade A browsers. However problems might arise after it is imported into a modalbox.

 

I shall keep you updated , until then .. . . :)

 

 

 

 

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4 Comments

  1. Nakul ~ I was just looking at controller.php and thinking about Bug 2)The effects can be applied only once. Have you considered adding a counter to $save_path along with copy.jpg, instead of just copy.jpg? Using a 'for loop' to increment the version names with an 'if statement' to check them, might give you the flexibility to create multiple versions and reload them as the user chooses. Of course, there's always arrays . . . or not!
  2. Nakul ~ After looking at controller.php and thinking about Bug 2)The effects can be applied only once. Have you considered adding a counter to $save_path along with copy.jpg, instead of just adding copy.jpg? Using a 'for loop' to increment each version name, and an 'if statement' to evaluate it, the user would be able to load whichever version they wanted. Or, there's always an array . . . or not!
  3. Oh, I forgot to add that I think you are accurate in having J! Studio stand-alone is going to make it easier to implement in a wider range. Keep up the good work . . . and keep coding away!
  4. Just great, sounds like this project can became an online photoshop for joomla

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