Integrate with other field display formatters (Colorbox, Slideshow)

Hi @igetquestion

this is the first issue for Textimage 3, apart from those I created :)

the 'node' tokens will only work if Textimage has a node context to resolve. This is not the case in the admin UI preview, nor in the image style preview.

Try linking the image style to a content type:

- Access 'Content type' administration features via Administration->
Structure->Content Types
- Select the content type for which you want to manage a Textimage field
(e.g. Article, Basic page, etc.), or alternatively create a new content type
- If you need to create a new field, in the 'Manage Fields' tab, add a new
field of type 'Text'
- In the 'Manage Display' tab, select a 'Textimage' format for the field
created above (or any existing one)
- Click on the gear icon
- Select from the dropdown displayed the image style you want to use
- Create a new node, and in the field that you have associated to Textimage
format enter the following string:
[textimage:default]
this will use the default text in the effect to produce the image with the
node context

I'd love to hear back if this works!

@igetquestion

thank you for your testing.

In fact Textimage provides field formatters for the following field types only: 'image', 'text', 'text_with_summary', 'text_long', so you are correct that other field types do not have this option.

If you select a Textimage formatter for a 'text' field, Textimage will use the text entered in the field to produce the image with it. In the field text you can enter the tokens directly, or [textimage:default] in which case Textimage will just fetch the default text entered in the image effect. Tokens will be resolved against the 'node' and 'user' token types.

If you select a Textimage formatter for a 'image' field, Textimage will use the text entered in the default text in the image effect to produce the image. In this case, tokens will be resolved against 'node', 'user' and 'file' token types, where the 'file' is the original image uploaded in the content.

I probably have to summarize this in the README.TXT file, your question comes spot on.

As for release, I am planning a beta1 soon. Thank you for your support.

This patch addresses #5, added info in README.TXT. With this in, I will go for beta1.

@igetquestion - if i understand well #6, whatever here would require development. The point is that the formatters you highlighted are provided by other modules, that would have to integrate somehow with Textimage if you want to have the watermarking on the fly at the time of 'displaying' the field. Otherwise, you could watermark the image at the time of the upload so that it gets stored with the watermark to start with. Textimage has the API to do the watermarking given a source image file, but all the 'intercepting' of the upload would be another story. Another approach could be the one listed in the project page HOWTO: Mouseover labels with Textimage.. This is for a previous version of Textimage but adapting the code you could get to similar results.

I will leave this issue open if anyone wants to propose a patch.

#7: 2099181-7.patch queued for re-testing.

Patch in #7 committed 2fcac2c and pushed to 7.x-3.x

Back to active for any contribution.

Dear all,

Have you got any news about colorbox formatter? For instance [node:title] is correctly solved as directly using TextImage formatter, but is there no solution for Colorbox?

It would very useful to grant extensive usage of tokens across formatters...