Aidas, thanks for the great tip!
I'll get cracking.
Best regards,
On 7/13/06, Aidas Bendoraitis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Carlos,
>
> If you need to get started quickly, you can use FileField instead of
> ImageField, so the PIL won't be necessary. The requirements of the
> uploaded image may be written in help_text. Maybe some validation of
> the image width and height can be done using Javascript. I'm not sure
> about that, you should check, whether it is posible to retrieve the
> dimensions of the selected file through Javascript, writing something
> like that:
> oImg = new Image();
> oImg.onload = function() {
> alert(oImg.width + "x" + oImg.height);
> }
> oImg.src = document.getElementById("fileUploadFieldId").value;
> (The script is written on the fly, I am not sure whether it works correctly)
>
> Good luck!
> Aidas Bendoraitis [aka Archatas]
>
> On 7/13/06, Carlos Yoder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >> Don't think so. I don't have root access to my box in Bluehost. Can
> > >> anythone think of an alternative, short of telling support to install
> > >> it themselves?
> > > Technically all PIL is needed for is determining height, width and what
> > > not of the image. If you do not need it or can ask the user, then PIL is
> > > nice but not required. May take a little hacking, but it should be
> > > feasible to ignore the warning.
> > >
> > > Another option is to see if imagemagick / graphicsmagick is installed
> > > and write a wrapper which uses that instead of PIL. Also feasible and
> > > should be relatively easy.
> >
> > Maybe so, but unfortunately I'm just too much of a Python newbie to
> > try tackling that, while the clock is ticking for the Django app I
> > must get thru the door.
> >
> > It's getting frustrating, all of this obstacles (which I believe are
> > not Django's fault, but related to sysadmins' ignorance). We *really*
> > need to think of a "providing Django support" tutorial for sysadmins,
> > as we discussed briefly in the last few days... otherwise a lot of
> > people would be scared away from Django because it's "too hard" or
> > "unsupported".
> >
> > Anyway, I'll keep you posted, thanks a lot to you all!
> > --
> > Carlos Yoder
> > http://carlitosyoder.blogspot.com
> >
> > >
> >
>
> >
>
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http://carlitosyoder.blogspot.com
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