Seems like there is some overlap between the two and I get a bit fuzzy sometimes. While imagegen is more of a "backend" dev tool, and image cropper is geared towards editors and allows for intelligent cropping with focal points - where does everyone see these fitting in?
Will there at one point be a solution in the core that consolidates all features and makes imagegen obsolete for all but the more advanced features?
In the current state, how do you use these two features/packages for your development? What do you consider best practices?
There already is. The image cropper actually uses a library called ImageProcessor to perform the crops. This has a huge range of functionality that included pluggable processors, caching systems, a fluent api for performing code driven imaging operations and a whole lot more.
Advice - Image Cropper and Image Gen
Seems like there is some overlap between the two and I get a bit fuzzy sometimes. While imagegen is more of a "backend" dev tool, and image cropper is geared towards editors and allows for intelligent cropping with focal points - where does everyone see these fitting in?
Will there at one point be a solution in the core that consolidates all features and makes imagegen obsolete for all but the more advanced features?
In the current state, how do you use these two features/packages for your development? What do you consider best practices?
Hi Steve,
There already is. The image cropper actually uses a library called ImageProcessor to perform the crops. This has a huge range of functionality that included pluggable processors, caching systems, a fluent api for performing code driven imaging operations and a whole lot more.
You can find the documentation for that here. http://imageprocessor.org
Cheers
James
I'll have to dig through the image processor docs then. So are you saying that I should not be using image gen at all on U7 projects?
I would recommend against mixing the two libraries as you will find on occasion that one will attempt to intercept calls directed at another.
If there's a bit of functionality that ImageGen has that you feel ImageProcessor requires then let me know and I'll see if it's feasible to add it.
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