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SchwingContainerCreator
Now anyone can create containers, all the steps you usually take to create a container are now combined into one easy tool.
Imports an image slice to pieces create the install file, XML and CSS and zip up for install. Now you don’t have to anything of this again any more. Just set slice lines and press button and this tool will create a installable container zip in seconds.
To give you optimal freedom in how your container will look the tool works with templates with predefined tags. You can even add your won so that no matter for which DNN you use it 2 or 99 it will always work. Because of the templates you can use it to create container html for any portal you like, phpnuke, mambo, you name it.
Start by designing a container
Start the program, choose “create theme” button, open your newly designed container and set the initial slice lines for the top middle and bottom part.
Give it a name and press the “Create Theme” button. When you get the alert that the theme is created just close this window to go to the main program. Press the refresh links and your just created theme will show up in the tree view. Double click it and the 3 images will be ready for you to use. Again set the proper slice lines.
After this its just one easy step, press the “Generate” button and your container will be created. In the containers directory of the application you will find the sliced images the HTML, XML, CSS and to top it of an installable container ZIP. Once this is created a preview of your container will pop up.
The template system
You can create your own template for special containers. The tags that are needed for the auto generation of the containers are in [] brackets. The custom templates are in {} brackets. Each template consists of a HTL and a CSS file. Both of these files are parses so you can create table based containers but also CSS based containers where all images are in the CSS file.
Example:
[top_left_width] [top_left_img_src] [top_left_height]
{TITLE}{ACTIONS}
The custom tags are defined in the tags.xml file
[PRINTMODULE]
[SOLPARTACTIONS]