[TYPO3-dev] Suggestions for triggering BE sprite generation

[Xavier Perseguers]

Hi,

> They have to be generated at least *once*, even if it's during
> developement of an extension or adding new icon to the core.
> Possibilities are:
> * let developer do it manually in his favourite image editing software
> (+ let him create the CSS)
> * provide *any* tool, to do this automatically, like [1]: Give it all
> images and get the sprite + CSS back. This tool maybe could be in
> extdeveval or a backend module or whatever.

Other solution: include a php script that should be run from a command-line and uses ImageMagick to statically generate this file. It's easy, no need to deal with Photoshop or other similar software 
and everybody is able to recreate the sprite if really needed.

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Xavier Perseguers
http://xavier.perseguers.ch/en