A more streamlined icon upload

[HappyTauren]

I have been wondering about something for a while.

If icons absolutely need to have the proper borders when uploaded, why wouldn't users just upload an image, that is then properly downscaled if needed, and bordered properly?

Of course, people who want to upload icons they processed into 64x64 or 48x48 blps themselves should still be able to upload them (since they might prefer specific compression algorithms and stuff), but I think this would be a nice option, so you could just export an icon from your painting program in an unbordered 64x64 for example, and THW's backend deals with the rest to make it an appropriate wc3 icon.

I understand that @Ralle has a lot to work on when it comes to THW, but I just thought it'd be nice.

 

[Chaosy]

Cohadar made a website which converts a normal picture to BLP + slaps on the correct borders and all that.

Might be possible to send a HTTP request to make it happen through that website.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I actually really like this idea.

I know it's not really an issue to download something like Button Manager v1.8.2 and convert the icon to a different type in like a second, but having that function built into the site would be nice.

 

[HappyTauren]

I know there are lots of tools that do this. It might not be too hard to access those on the backend for this reason.

But I know Ralle wouldn't use an external HTTP request for a thing like this, because it goes against his design principles, so if this were to be done, it wouldn't depend on a third party website, but could use an internal tool.

 

[GhostWolf]

Yes.

 

[HappyTauren]

This being said, there could also be compression options to decide quality or how it is paletted, since the tool that converts an image to blp can easily use this parameter anyways. This would make it redundant for users to do this themselves, as well.

 

[GhostWolf]

Let the user select the quality?

 

[HappyTauren]

Well, yes. Depending on the detail presented in the image, different levels of quality can be used. Also some icons are paletted better than others.

For most people default options will suffice tho.

 

[GhostWolf]

I mean let the user downloading the icon select the quality.

 

[HappyTauren]

oh that's a pretty good idea actually, yeah, I completely agree with that

 

[Ralle]

It's been on my list for 500 years.

 

[Kyrbi0]

This is a pretty great idea, though as has been admitted, puts all the work squarely onto Ralle.

 

[HappyTauren]

It sounds like a relatively simple thing, especially since there are programs that could be ran on the backend to accomplish this, but as with most web application designs, it is always more complex than it seems.