Tailor Archive

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DanceRulez wrote:
That's really cool Tiaga! I just wanna know how you got the items to change color. You can't possibly have taken screenies of all the color combinations. Great work!

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You have no idea how long it took to get the 4 BILLION screenshots of the reinforced pullover.

You're right, I didn't take a screenshot of every possible color. I have a back-end script that monitors accesses to the image directory and creates any that don't yet exist. Even the normal view uses that script, though those pictures are hit enough that they should theoretically never expire and have to be re-created.

As an interesting side effect, you can see what the Luxurious Gown would look like if you could use real colors.

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GunheadD9 wrote:

Beautiful, simply beautiful!

Any chance you want to share your code or liscense it out to us?

Will be sending many over to your site

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The site code itself is based on Graceful Clothiers which is released under the GPL. So in turn, you're welcome to the changes I've made. That doesn't, however, include the back-end scripts for creating the images. The web-site just treats the images as a directory full of every file it could ever need, and the web server takes care of making sure the files needed are there. I'm still undecided on that part. I will say two things though... First, it's a lot easier than you think. The script to create the images is only 75 lines, and the first 25 are just verifying the parameters are correct. The script that maintains the directory and deletes old files as needed is about 3 times longer than the script that actually does the work. The other thing is the hosting requirements are VERY steep. I'm using two things that most hosting places would be very hesitant to install on anything but a co-located server. One for cross-account security reasons, the other for CPU usage reasons.

Message Edited by Tiaga on 07-23-2004 02:22 PM

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention... This has pretty much replaced my price list as where I look for prices. However, I'm a bit of a perfectionist and like to sell things at a nice round number. This isn't so easy if you're in a city with sales tax. One thing my price list had was the prices before tax, so if I sold them at that price, after tax the price was nice and round.

Not wanting to give that up, there's a hidden feature. If you go to the limits and enter "tax" as the minimum price, and the tax rate as the maximum (For example, 5 for 5% tax) then when looking at listings, under the regular price is the before-tax price.

Not really useful to anyone else given that it only displays my prices but it's quite handy for me to have.

Message Edited by Aradia1 on 07-24-2004 01:35 AM

Also..... How am I supposed to get work done now?? I can't stop playing with the site and planning what new items I can make tonight when I get home...

Message Edited by MayRee on 07-23-2004 02:03 PM

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MayRee wrote:

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Also..... How am I supposed to get work done now?? I can't stop playing with the site and planning what new items I can make tonight when I get home...

Message Edited by MayRee on 07-23-2004 02:03 PM

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And I thought I was the only one *giggles*

That is truly awsome.
It's the site I always wanted to make but never did because of the amount of work involved. Congratulations to a work well done, I'll be using it myself.

/applaud

Message Edited by MouseBot on 07-23-2004 09:24 PM