Re: Background image in css for email from component
Re: Background image in css for email from component
- Subject: Re: Background image in css for email from component
- From: Ken Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 21:49:22 -0400
David,
I have it working now. The problem was a combination of not passing in a context and wondering what the heck the wodata= stuff was. Plus, not realizing it would fix itself on deployment.
Thanks!
Ken
On Jun 26, 2013, at 9:12 PM, David LeBer <email@hidden> wrote:
> Ken,
>
> The answers on the list seem to be going around in circles.
>
> I don't know why you are getting the incorrect paths to your resources.
>
> Do paths work in regular pages (images etc)?
>
> To confirm this is in development? With direct connect disabled?
>
> D
>
> --
> David LeBer
> Codeferous Software
>
> On 2013-06-26, at 3:39 PM, Johnny Miller <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Are you using a stylesheet or inlining the style?
>>
>> Aloha,
>> Mr. Johnny Miller
>> Web Development Manager
>> Kahalawai Media Company
>> Lahaina, HI 96761
>> tel: (808) 661-7962 | mobile: (808) 283-0791
>> website | e-mail
>>
>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 9:35 AM, Ken Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, Apple Mail does, and so do the other clients I've tested.
>>>
>>> Any idea why my resources are so screwy?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Johnny Miller <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ken,
>>>>
>>>> I believe most mail clients don't support CSS background images.
>>>>
>>>> Aloha,
>>>> Mr. Johnny Miller
>>>> Web Development Manager
>>>> Kahalawai Media Company
>>>> Lahaina, HI 96761
>>>> tel: (808) 661-7962 | mobile: (808) 283-0791
>>>> website | e-mail
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 9:32 AM, Ken Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> OK - still driving me crazy.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I ask WOResourceManager for the url, I get this:
>>>>>
>>>>> /WebObjects/FitnotixService.woa/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>>>>
>>>>> but that path doesn't work. If I put the machine in front:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://127.0.0.1/WebObjects/FitnotixService.woa/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>>>>
>>>>> still wrong. I need to add Contents after the woa:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://127.0.0.1/WebObjects/FitnotixService.woa/Contents/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>>>>
>>>>> THAT URL works.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, do I have something configured wrong somewhere?
>>>>>
>>>>> If I put the image in a WOImage, I get this ing src:
>>>>>
>>>>> <img src="/fit/-6666/wr/wodata=/Users/kanderson/MBM/repository/trunk/source/WebObjects/FitnotixService/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png" width="800" height="600" />
>>>>>
>>>>> I can only assume this happens on a local machine, even though I have direct connect turned OFF and I'm definitely running everything through Apache.
>>>>>
>>>>> Ken
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 11:57 AM, email@hidden wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Or how to do it with WO, which I wrote from one of your emails :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://wiki.wocommunity.org/display/WOCOM/Emails
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Problem:
>>>>>> Your HTML email have images that you want to display inline.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Solution:
>>>>>> If you have a WebObjects Component and you want to send inline images with the component, you have to make use of a trick, that was mentioned in Fabian Peters mail on the Wonder Discussion mailinglist on 6 june 2009.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> First of all, in the Component HTML one includes something like this:
>>>>>> <img src="cid:image0" alt="Logo" />
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The code that accompanies this cid:image0 is:
>>>>>> URL logoURL = myApp().resourceManager().pathURLForResourceNamed("logo.png", null, null);
>>>>>> File logo = new File(logoURL.toURI());
>>>>>> ERMailAttachment imageLogo = new ERMailFileAttachment("logo.png","<image0>",logo);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Note that the file "logo.png" has to be included in the Resources folder of you WebObjects project.
>>>>>> The "cid:image0" is linked to the <image0> in the ImageAttachment.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or if you want to include the image in the mail, you'll have to reference it by CID: <img src="cid:image0" width="274" height="61" alt="Logo" />
>>>>>>> See <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4312687/how-to-embed-images-in-email>
>>>>>>> I've never used this for CSS background images though.
>>>>>>> Fabian
>>>>>>> Am 26.06.2013 um 17:32 schrieb James Cicenia:
>>>>>>>> The image has to be public. So you could just store a url to the public image.
>>>>>>>> Otherwise:
>>>>>>>>> /Users/kanderson/MBM/repository/trunk/source/WebObjects/FitnotixService/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png
>>>>>>>> does look correct. It is the actual path to the image which the server needs to server it up.
>>>>>>>> On Jun 26, 2013, at 10:06 AM, Ken Anderson <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Gang,
>>>>>>>>> This is driving me nuts so hopefully someone has an easy answer.
>>>>>>>>> In a component I'm using with ERMailDeliveryHTML I want to grab a background image for the email:
>>>>>>>>> body
>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>> background-image:url(<webobject name="BackgroundURL"/>);
>>>>>>>>> background-color:#ffffff;
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>> BackgroundURL : WOString {
>>>>>>>>> value = backgroundURL;
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>> public String backgroundURL() {
>>>>>>>>> return WOApplication.application().resourceManager().urlForResourceNamed("emailBackground.png", null, null, null);
>>>>>>>>> }
>>>>>>>>> I've tried everything including using a method to build the URL by asking WOResourceManager for the URL for the resource.
>>>>>>>>> If I put the image in a WOImage to try and steal the URL, this is what I get:
>>>>>>>>> <img src="/fit/-6666/wr/wodata=/Users/kanderson/MBM/repository/trunk/source/WebObjects/FitnotixService/WebServerResources/emailBackground.png" width="800" height="600" />
>>>>>>>>> even though I'm not using direct connect, which is confusing to me.
>>>>>>>>> Is this just because I want to make this work in Development?
>>>>>>>>> Thanks for any thoughts! It was great to see many of you this past weekend and I hope to see you next year!
>>>>>>>>> Ken
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