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Posted by kerrizor on September 20, 2005 at 10:41pm
Project:Video
Version:master
Component:User interface
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:Unassigned
Status:closed (works as designed)

Issue Summary

A great feature would be to allow users to upload or specify a thumbnail preview image for the node which could appear as the content of the node.

(would this be accompished best through image.module?)

(see http://drupal.org/node/26978)

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#1

Posted by fax8 on September 21, 2005 at 7:49am

I always like small and modulerized software: clean, fast and more easy to understand.

This is why I didn't implement the screenshot function yet.
See: http://drupal.org/node/25230#comment-46459

What do you think about it?

#2

Posted by kerrizor on September 22, 2005 at 9:44pm

http://drupal.org/node/3094

#3

Posted by fax8 on September 23, 2005 at 4:11pm

what is that url ?
Here it doesn't work!

#4

Posted by LukeLast on October 30, 2005 at 9:05pm

I still think this feature should be included in the module.
Reasons for:

  1. Lots of people have been asking for this feature.
  2. Building it into the module makes it the easiest to install and use.
  3. Allows it to be designed specifically for the video.module.

Reasons against:

  1. Makes the code more complex. Could add over 100 lines of code.
  2. A separate module might be usefull for other things.

Any other reasons for or against?

I bring this up again because i've got some working code adding an image to video nodes. Right now I'm in the process of updating to the newest version of image.module and the new forms API.

What about adding image thumbnail support to video.module and then seeing how things work, and then think about spinning it into a seperate module?

#5

Posted by fax8 on October 31, 2005 at 2:03pm

please post here the code you have as a patch...

We will look if it is possible to separate the code.

I still think that a separate module is the better idea.

Fabio

#6

Posted by LukeLast on November 3, 2005 at 8:29pm
Status:active» closed (works as designed)

Right now I think you're probably right, functionally this could be a seperate module. It's just soo much more work ;(

I guess I'll try and get a module framework started and start another project for it.

#7

Posted by kerrizor on November 7, 2005 at 8:47am

I cheated.

I enabled image upload support for nodes, then just load up the images for a given node. Viola.

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