To manage links to auxiliary files, and placeholder variables.
§1. Auxiliary files are for items bundled up with the release but which are deliberately made accessible for the eventual player: things such as maps or manuals. Inblorb needs to know about these only when releasing a website; they are also recorded in an iFiction record, but Inblorb doesn't create that, Inform 7 does.
typedef struct auxiliary_file { struct filename *full_filename; struct text_stream *aux_leafname; struct text_stream *aux_subfolder; struct text_stream *description; struct text_stream *format; e.g., "jpg", "pdf" CLASS_DEFINITION } auxiliary_file;
- The structure auxiliary_file is accessed in 5/im, 2/bw and here.
§2. Registration. The format text is set to a lower-case version of the filename extension, and the URL to the filename itself; except when there is no extension, so that the auxiliary resource is a mini-website in a subfolder of the release website. In that case the format is link and the URL is to the index file in the subfolder.
void Links::create_auxiliary_file(text_stream *fn, text_stream *description, text_stream *subfolder) { auxiliary_file *aux = CREATE(auxiliary_file); aux->description = Str::duplicate(description); aux->aux_subfolder = Str::duplicate(subfolder); TEMPORARY_TEXT(ext) Links::get_extension_from_textual_filename(ext, fn); TEMPORARY_TEXT(leaf) Links::get_leafname_from_textual_filename(leaf, fn); if (Str::get_first_char(ext) == '.') { aux->full_filename = Filenames::from_text(fn); aux->format = Str::duplicate(ext); Str::delete_first_character(aux->format); LOOP_THROUGH_TEXT(pos, aux->format) Str::put(pos, Characters::tolower(Str::get(pos))); } else { aux->full_filename = NULL; aux->format = I"link"; } aux->aux_leafname = Str::duplicate(leaf); DISCARD_TEXT(ext) DISCARD_TEXT(leaf) PRINT("! Auxiliary file: <%S> = <%S>\n", fn, description); } void Links::get_extension_from_textual_filename(OUTPUT_STREAM, text_stream *filename) { int i = Str::len(filename) - 1; while ((i>=0) && ((Str::get_at(filename, i) == '.') || (Str::get_at(filename, i) == ' '))) i--; while ((i>=0) && (Str::get_at(filename, i) != '.') && (Platform::is_folder_separator(Str::get_at(filename, i)) == FALSE)) i--; if ((i<0) || (Platform::is_folder_separator(Str::get_at(filename, i)))) return; Str::copy_tail(OUT, filename, i); }
void Links::get_leafname_from_textual_filename(OUTPUT_STREAM, text_stream *filename) { int i = Str::len(filename) - 1; while ((i>=0) && (Platform::is_folder_separator(Str::get_at(filename, i)) == FALSE)) i--; Str::copy_tail(OUT, filename, i+1); }
§4. Linking. The list of links to auxiliary resources is written using <li>...</li> list entry tags, for convenience of CSS styling.
void Links::expand_AUXILIARY_variable(OUTPUT_STREAM) { auxiliary_file *aux; LOOP_OVER(aux, auxiliary_file) { if (Str::eq_wide_string(aux->description, U"--") == FALSE) { WRITE("<li>"); Links::download_link(OUT, aux->description, aux->full_filename, aux->aux_leafname, aux->format); WRITE("</li>"); } } Requests::add_links_to_requested_resources(OUT); }
§5. On some of the pages produced by Inblorb the story file itself looks like another auxiliary resource, but it's produced thus:
void Links::expand_DOWNLOAD_variable(OUTPUT_STREAM) { filename *eventual_Blorb_location = Filenames::in(release_folder, Placeholders::read(I"STORYFILE")); Links::download_link(OUT, I"Story File", eventual_Blorb_location, Placeholders::read(I"STORYFILE"), I"Blorb"); }
§6. Links. This routine, then, handles either kind of link.
void Links::download_link(OUTPUT_STREAM, text_stream *desc, filename *F, text_stream *relative_url, text_stream *form) { int size_up = TRUE; if (Str::eq_wide_string(form, U"link")) size_up = FALSE; WRITE("<a href=\"%S\">%S</a> ", relative_url, desc); Websites::open_style(OUT, "filetype"); WRITE("(%S", form); if (size_up) { long int size = -1L; if (Str::eq_wide_string(desc, U"Story File")) size = (long int) blorb_file_size; else size = BinaryFiles::size(F); if (size != -1L) Write a description of the rough file size6.1 } WRITE(")"); Websites::close_style(OUT, "filetype"); }
§6.1. We round down to the nearest KB, MB, GB, TB or byte, as appropriate. Although this will describe a 1-byte auxiliary file as "1 bytes", the contingency seems remote.
Write a description of the rough file size6.1 =
text_stream *units = I" bytes"; long int remainder = 0; if (size > 1024L) { remainder = size % 1024L; size /= 1024L; units = I"KB"; } if (size > 1024L) { remainder = size % 1024L; size /= 1024L; units = I"MB"; } if (size > 1024L) { remainder = size % 1024L; size /= 1024L; units = I"GB"; } if (size > 1024L) { remainder = size % 1024L; size /= 1024L; units = I"TB"; } WRITE(", %d", (int) size); if ((size < 100L) && (remainder >= 103L)) WRITE(".%d", (int) (remainder/103L)); WRITE("%S", units);
- This code is used in §6.
§7. Cover image. Note that if the large cover image is a PNG, so is the small (thumbnail) version, and vice versa — supplying "Cover.jpg" and "Small Cover.png" will not work.
void Links::expand_COVER_variable(OUTPUT_STREAM) { if (cover_exists) { char *format = "png"; if (cover_is_in_JPEG_format) format = "jpg"; WRITE("<a href=\"Cover.%s\"><img src=\"Small Cover.%s\" border=\"1\" width=\"120px\"></a>", format, format); } }
§8. Releasing. When we generate a website, we need to copy the auxiliary files into it (though not mini-websites: the user will have to do that).
void Links::request_copy_of_auxiliaries(void) { auxiliary_file *aux; LOOP_OVER(aux, auxiliary_file) { if (Str::ne(aux->format, I"link")) { if (verbose_mode) PRINT("! COPY <%f> as <%S>\n", aux->full_filename, aux->aux_leafname); TEMPORARY_TEXT(as_text) WRITE_TO(as_text, "%f", aux->full_filename); Requests::request_copy(as_text, aux->aux_leafname, aux->aux_subfolder); DISCARD_TEXT(as_text) } } }