Conditional MediaBin tasks

the_greg

I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to conditionally apply transformations in a task. For instance, resize an image if and only if it is out of XYZ specifications. Basically if-else statements.

Are there options for richer task scripting? The reference materials I've found so far do not seem to suggest so.


Thanks

Chris

lyman

I am afraid not in this form, although believe me we have thought about it!

The closest we come is an attempt to make sure that primitives gracefully step out of the way if not relevant, therefore, for example, a color converter which converts a file to RGB will correctly "do nothing" if the file started as RGB, and the flattener will similarly do nothing if the incoming images has zero or one layer already.

There is, for example, a hidden parameter to the image sizer which will only allow scaling down and not up so one could say (scale to fit in a 512x512 box if we currently exceed those dimensions).

So, generally we have found that we have been able to accomodate basically all specific cases people have needed without a completely general "if" facility.

That being said, if you could elaborate more fully on your use case there may be ways to accomplish what you are looking for.

Cheers,

Lyman Hurd