Hi Tom,

Problem solved! 

Thanks,

Anthony

I'm trying to define two Crops for a media type. One with the dimensions of 250x418 and one with the dimensions of 300x267

However when I select an image with DAMP (v2.7), two crops are stored:

<behandelingCrop>
  <crops date="2014-03-23T10:32:26">
    <crop name="behandelingCrop" x="0" y="0" x2="159" y2="267" url="/media/1027/b-active-gamma_behandelingCrop.jpg" />
    <crop name="behandelingCrop" x="0" y="0" x2="300" y2="267" url="/media/1027/b-active-gamma_behandelingCrop.jpg" />
   </crops>
 </behandelingCrop>

Is there a way for editors to choose just one of the defined crops?

Thanks for your help,

Anthony

I think due to the DAMP_CallImageCropper setting in your Web.config file, DAMP will automatically create the empty crops. You can try setting this to false, but it means crops won't be created unless the editor explicitly creates them in the UI (if I recall).

Hi Anthony,

I may not completely understand your scenario, but the way we've always used the various croppers is to define the various crops needed for displaying the images as banners, page images etc.

The client just picks a single image to go with a page, or a contact/newsitem etc. and our code picks the correct crop required for the situation - the client never picks a specific crop for any purpose. They just know how to adjust a crop if it looks wrong.

Using the CropUp package makes this a thousand times easier because it's pretty good at finding faces and "focus points" in images, so the default crops are pretty useful already.

/Chriztian

Hi Chriztian,

The problem I have, is that for the same page, sometimes different crops are needed, based on the image itself. Sometimes the image needs to be shown with landscape proportions, and sometimes with portrait proportions.

Jeroen Breuer affirmed me that there is no way to let an editor choose which crop to show on the page (although I think that would be a great feature). But he gave me a tip for a workaround.

So I created a datatype of dropdownlist with to propertyvalues: portrait, landscape

Then in the backoffice the editor can choose wich crop to use by selecting a value in the dropdownlist:

Then In the code, I just use a condition to decide which crop to use:

...
var scale = Model.Content.GetPropertyValue("imageScale");
if (scale.ToString() == "landscape")
{
  <img class="polaroid" src="@image.First.TypedCrops["behandelingcrop"]" alt="@image.First.Alt" />
}
else {
  <img class="polaroid" src="@image.First.TypedCrops["behandeling2crop"]" alt="@image.First.Alt" />
}

just tried it out and it works fine.

greetings,

Anthony

@Tom, Hi Tom, your solution might be appropriate as well. The problem is that I have properties that only use one crop. So I guess if I set the DAMP_CallImageCropper property to 'false' in web.config. The editor would need to explicitely select a crop, even for those image for which only one crop is available.

greetings,

Anthony

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