[add-art dev] Auto image update status

[Steve Lambert]

Is there a way we could throw a dialog box to the user that says  
something like "add-art has downloaded new images, restart Firefox to  
see them" ...or something?


Steve

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Steve Lambert
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On Jun 23, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Ethan Ham wrote:

> Ok, I've done the fix mentioned below.  New image jar files are  
> saved off as
> "~image.jar." When Firefox next launches, the ~image.jar is renamed  
> (and
> replaces) image.jar.
>
> There's one problem I wasn't able to fix, however... If after a new  
> image
> set is downloaded, the user opens a new Firefox window (not tab)  
> before
> restarting Firefox, then the add-art images disappear the next time  
> a page
> with ads is browsed to (or is refreshed).
>
> This is a bit of an outside case.  Is it acceptable?  I can't think  
> of any
> way around it :(  I tried putting the file copy code in addart.js  
> because
> that code is called only once, upon Firefox's initialization...
> Unfortunately the file copy code won't work there because the services
> needed are yet available.
>
> Ethan
>
>
> On 6/23/08 11:16 AM, "Ethan Ham" <ethan at ethanham.com> wrote:
>
>> It was great to meet you on Saturday, Steve!
>>
>> I've tracked down the problem we were having with the image update  
>> process.
>> The Americana set of images had a bunch of problems (corrupted files,
>> different sizes, misnamed extensions (jpeg instead of jpg).
>>
>> When I made a set of images myself (I used the Japanese print set  
>> as the
>> basis for the new set, and then painted a green stripe on them),  
>> it worked
>> fine.
>>
>> I checked in a fix for the problem we found on Saturday (that the  
>> extension
>> was using a cached version of image_set.xml).
>>
>> I've noticed that the extension doesn't like the images.jar file  
>> being
>> changed while it is running (it stops showing the images until  
>> Firefox is
>> restarted).  I'm going to do a fix for that today (after a new  
>> images.jar
>> file is downloaded, we won't replace the old one until the new  
>> time Firefox
>> launches).
>>
>>
>>
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