[add-art dev] Auto image update status

[Steve Lambert]

Then problem kinda solved right?  Any objections?  Ideas?  If we  
think of something we can always put it in a future release

Steve

P.S. sorry about the corrupted images.  I had no idea!



On Jun 23, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Ethan Ham wrote:

> Sure, that’s easy... I’ll 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> --
>> 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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