spritegen
v0.0.5
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Sprite generator that takes a root directory and recursively combines all images into a sprite and style sheet.
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spritegen
Sprite generator that takes a root directory and recursively combines all images into a sprite and style sheet.
Before You Install
Spritegen requires a fork of node-canvas, which requires Cairo. To install Cairo follow the portion of the Wiki that pertains to your operating system. Only follow the installing Cairo section, I'll walk you through the rest. Once Cairo is installed follow these steps:
- Add C:\GTK\bin to your path environment variable.
- Ensure that you have Python27 installed
- Ensure that you have node-gyp installed. If you don't then navigate to your nodejs install location and npm install -g node-gyp.
- Restart your computer
Installation
npm install spritegenCanvas Note
If you're noticing that we are requiring a module called canvas-gyp instead of canvas, it's because node-canvas includes both waf and gyp. It is buggy and in our experience, always fails to compile on Windows machines. We created a fork called canvas-gyp that only uses gyp, which installs correctly on Windows.
Examples
Basic usage:
$ spritegen --dir site/imagesRecursively combines all images inside the directory "site/images" into one sprite.png and sprite.css per directory and sub-directory.
site/
images/
icons/
answer.png
connect.png
discover.pngThe sprite.css is generated with classes by folder and file name.
.icons-answer-png {
background-image: url("sprite.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0px 2px;
width: 22px;
height: 22px;
}
.icons-connect-png {
background-image: url("sprite.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0px 26px;
width: 26px;
height: 22px;
}
.icons-discover-png {
background-image: url("sprite.png");
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 0px 50px;
width: 28px;
height: 22px;
}This CSS works by simply assigning the class name to an element.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>spritegen example</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="images/icons/sprite.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<p>
<span class="icons-answer-png"></span>
<span class="icons-connect-png"></span>
<span class="icons-discover-png"></span>
</p>
</body>
</html>API usage:
spritegen can also be called directly by including the module.
var SpriteGen = require('spritegen');
var imagesPath = path.join(__dir, 'public/images');
var spriteGen = new SpriteGen({ dir: imagesPath, padding: 5 });
spriteGen.execute();Show help:
$ spritegen --help
=> [spritegen]
Sprite generator that takes a root directory and recursively combines all images into a sprite and style sheet.
* Version: 0.0.1
* Usage: spritegen [options]
Options:
--help Shows help.
--dir Root directory to recursively process.
--padding Padding between images in pixels.
--verbose Sets if logging is verbose (true/false).