Flash Image cropper

[demiancurran]

Hey all,
I'm starting a new project in which I must accept an uploaded image, and be able to crop the image to specific dimensions.
Does anyone know of a Flash / ColdFusion suite that does this ? All suggestions are welcome !

 

[TamedTech]

Which version of CF are you running?

There are a hole load of custom tags and CFC's that do this kind of thing using the Java back end of ColdFusion, google for image.cfc you'll get some good info.

Rob

 

[demiancurran]

Thanks Rob,
I'm using CFMX.
This is the necessary order of operations. Tell me if image.cfc can control all this.

1. customer uploads an image (gif, jpg, png)
2. customer is able to crop the picture themselves, according to scaleable width and height.

I've found an example that is very close but it uses PHP, and would like to find one that uses CFMX.

example:

http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2003/june/mayitakeyour

 

[TamedTech]

Hey buddy,

It depends on what you mean by point 2.

2. customer is able to crop the picture themselves, according to scaleable width and height.

Are you looking for a pleasant GUI that will enable to people to crop the image? This would be more complicated.

What the CFC allows you to do it pass a set of arguments, such as 'width','height','orientation' and a hole load more, and then it will manipulate the image for you and spit it out the other side, the tricky bit comes in how to pass those arguments.

I only use the basic features of the CFC to re-size all my images to a predefined size which is effectivly a 'thumbnail' for my site.

If you're looking for a full app with a GUI to resize the images, then this CFC is not going to cut the mustard, however, it is very powerfull and has a great feature set.

Rob

 

[demiancurran]

Thanks for your help ... this is what I ended up using .

http://www.defusion.org.uk/code/javascript-image-cropper-ui-using-prototype-scriptaculous/

There was also another cropper that I thought was 'a little more fancy'

http://labs.silverorange.com/archives/2003/june/mayitakeyour

Demian