I've actually realised I've been an idiot: seen as models are subclasses of models.Model, I should be able to just call model.Model.save() from within the custom save method! And my other idea wouldn't work if the image were changed.
On Jul 12, 12:37 pm, TheBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wow: thanks for all the replies guys! > > Photologue is perhaps a bit heavyweight for my current purposes, > although it looks like an extremely impressive bit of kit, and were I > to make a dedicated photo gallery etc app with django, I would > certainly use it. > > Embedding something in the save method seems like a very good idea: I > can't work out how to do it without breaking the current save > functionality in the model, so I think I'll probably do it as a new > classes style property: no setter, because it's automatic, but the > getter will try and load the image from a file, and if that fails > create the file using PIL functionality. > > Colin > > On Jul 11, 8:39 pm, blis102 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You could also use django-photologue. Its quite powerful and very > > useful in templates: > > >http://code.google.com/p/django-photologue/ > > > Cheers, > > Dana > > > On Jul 11, 12:47 am, "Ben Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Or you could have a look at google appengine for your image storage. They > > > have an picassa like API that would allow you to do lots of stuff to your > > > images on the fly and you wouldn't pay for any of the processor cost (or > > > storage if you're under 500M). Just a thought. > > > Ben > > > > 2008/7/11 Eric Abrahamsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > It's intensive, but not prohibitively so. I've used a few setups where > > > > large image files were uploaded and, depending on the options, two or > > > > even three different versions of the image are created in the save() > > > > method. The server has yet to explode. Try poking through some of > > > > these snippets and see if anything appeals to you: > > > > >http://www.djangosnippets.org/tags/thumbnail/ > > > > > Eric > > > > > On Jul 11, 2008, at 3:53 AM, TheBoff wrote: > > > > > > To jump straight in to the question: > > > > > > I'm wrinting a website using the automatic admin interface, and am > > > > > wondering if there's any way to create a thumbnail automatically upon > > > > > the upload of the image. > > > > > > I know I could set it as a property, and use PIL to do it on the fly > > > > > (well I assume I could, I haven't checked it in any detail!), but > > > > > wouldn't that be hugely processor intensive? > > > > -- > > > Regards, > > > Ben Ford > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +447792598685 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
