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benmackie 08-25-2014 09:15 AM

Too much white space around product images.
 
Under Featured Products, there seems to be a lot of white space. I want my images to fill more of that space. We uploaded large images for retina displays, but X-Cart seems to compress them to certain size, which we find too small.

http://tarheelants.net/

totaltec 08-25-2014 12:20 PM

Re: Too much white space around product images.
 
Just adding some info that might help:
Looks like the icon sizes are defined in classes/XLite/View/ItemsList/Product/Customer/ACustomer.php

in the function:
Code:

public static function getIconSizes()
{
    return array(
        static::WIDGET_TYPE_SIDEBAR . '.' . static::DISPLAY_MODE_STHUMB => array(160, 160),
        static::WIDGET_TYPE_SIDEBAR . '.' . static::DISPLAY_MODE_BTHUMB => array(160, 160),
        static::WIDGET_TYPE_CENTER . '.' . static::DISPLAY_MODE_GRID => array(160, 160),
        static::WIDGET_TYPE_CENTER . '.' . static::DISPLAY_MODE_LIST => array(160, 160),
        'other' => array(110, 110),
    );
}


I would try decorating this class, and defining my own sizes.

benmackie 08-25-2014 12:36 PM

Re: Too much white space around product images.
 
I actually changed the width in the class and it worked, but the images are all blurry because when you upload through the backend it actually compresses them to 160 x 160.

totaltec 08-25-2014 12:39 PM

Re: Too much white space around product images.
 
Okay here is what I did.

I used the custom skin module, (for the second time today!) and I created a new file:
XLite\Module\XC\CustomSkin\View\Items_List\Product \Customer\ACustomer.php

with the following content:

Code:

namespace XLite\Module\XC\CustomSkin\View\Items_List\Product\Customer;

/**
 * ACustomer
 */
abstract class ACustomer extends \XLite\Module\CDev\Sale\View\ItemsList implements \XLite\Base\IDecorator
{

    /**
    * Get icon sizes
    *
    * @return array
    */
    public static function getIconSizes()
    {
        return array(
            static::WIDGET_TYPE_SIDEBAR . '.' . static::DISPLAY_MODE_STHUMB => array(200, 200),
            static::WIDGET_TYPE_SIDEBAR . '.' . static::DISPLAY_MODE_BTHUMB => array(200, 200),
            static::WIDGET_TYPE_CENTER . '.' . static::DISPLAY_MODE_GRID => array(200, 200),
            static::WIDGET_TYPE_CENTER . '.' . static::DISPLAY_MODE_LIST => array(200, 200),
            'other' => array(110, 110),
        );
    }
}


This set the icon sizes to 200. Amazingly, XC was smart enough to automatically generate icon thumbs at the correct size of 200 x 200, referenc them correctly, and place them in the var/images folder. Thanks Devs!

totaltec 08-25-2014 12:41 PM

Re: Too much white space around product images.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by benmackie
I actually changed the width in the class and it worked, but the images are all blurry because when you upload through the backend it actually compresses them to 160 x 160.

Using my solution above they should not be blurry. I believe XC has retained your original images, and it will create proper sized thumbnails on the fly depending on the application and need.

benmackie 08-25-2014 12:55 PM

Re: Too much white space around product images.
 
Ok, I did what you did and changed those values to 200.

I did it directly to the file. Do I need to create a new file for that to work?

Thanks.

totaltec 08-25-2014 02:28 PM

Re: Too much white space around product images.
 
I see your new changes are in effect on your site. They look like they are set to 240.

With X-cart 5 you should never directly edit a file, or it will break future upgrades of the site. None of the default files should ever be changed, or your changes will be overwritten when you upgrade. Rather, you make all the changes in your custom created module, or in the provided module called Custom skin. The custom skin module is what I used above.

I just made a video about using the custom skin that might help you to better understand how it is used: http://youtu.be/LxpUCoYU_nU

benmackie 08-26-2014 04:33 AM

Re: Too much white space around product images.
 
Like a child theme for wordpress. Got it. Thanks!

GreatLakesVacuum 09-30-2014 12:59 PM

Re: Too much white space around product images.
 
Mike is the module you made to do this available so one could simply install this module and enter the size of images they want for the categories thumbnails and add-to-cart popup? I find it silly that the Admin only contains places for us to define the product image and am not well versed in creating modules (and also have limited time right now to learn it)

totaltec 09-30-2014 08:31 PM

Re: Too much white space around product images.
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by GreatLakesVacuum
Mike is the module you made to do this available so one could simply install this module and enter the size of images they want for the categories thumbnails and add-to-cart popup? I find it silly that the Admin only contains places for us to define the product image and am not well versed in creating modules (and also have limited time right now to learn it)


I think the best thing would be to create 1 custom module for your site, then we could put all the little changes like this into it. This change is so small, in my opinion it's not worth creating a module just for this. I think we will see these options show up in future X-cart 5 releases.


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