Background Image

[mavoric]

I had a great idea last night about something that can be a little cumbersome when trying to choose a background image for a <div>. My idea is a popup box that looks similar to this...

http://agateau.files.wordpress.com/2007 ... 6-crop.png

Ignoring the rotate and the other tools this would then automatically enter the CSS to resize the DIV (the lighter box), put the image inside it and then position it accordingly so it matches up.

Is this something that could be done as I don't think its been done before?

[daredare]

No way, this is exactly the kind of stuff that makes an application less efficient and slower, WB is a code editor with a minimal aspect, fast and lightweight, your stuff should be welcome for something like dreamweaver.To be honnest you had an extremely bad idea.

[x3po]

No way, this is exactly the kind of stuff that makes an application less efficient and slower, WB is a code editor with a minimal aspect, fast and lightweight, your stuff should be welcome for something like dreamweaver.To be honnest you had an extremely bad idea.

+1

[mavoric]

No way, this is exactly the kind of stuff that makes an application less efficient and slower, WB is a code editor with a minimal aspect, fast and lightweight, your stuff should be welcome for something like dreamweaver.To be honnest you had an extremely bad idea.

It sounds like there is some confusion over my first post, it would insert the following code (and not save the image output)...

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background-image: url(/images/button.png);
background-position: 20px 50px;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
height:50px;
width:150px;

It is similar to the colour picker/form select box in its action as its all part of the UI the only thing that could be difficult is the code to show the image and position the four points on it.

Hope this clears it up
Thanks

p.s. I would not recommend using the line ...

To be honnest you had an extremely bad idea

as this is very patronising. I'm not a child and your have no authority over me. Saying things like that amplifies differences and could prevent this software evolving because of childish squabbles over what you like and don't like rather than the development that's at hand. Plus what if I have an idea that could save you hours of work, I might not feel like sharing this idea because you might shoot it down too.