[add-art dev] Auto image update status

[Ethan Ham]

Sure, that¹s easy... I¹ll do that now.


On 6/23/08 12:11 PM, "Steve Lambert" <steve at visitsteve.com> wrote:

> 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?
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> On Jun 23, 2008, at 11:53 AM, Ethan Ham wrote:
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>> 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
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>> On 6/23/08 11:16 AM, "Ethan Ham" <ethan at ethanham.com> wrote:
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>>> 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).
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>>> 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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