Quick request if possible?

Tom & Ashley

Would it be a lot of work to add an extra option in project settings for a preview image?

For example, to get a thumbnail to show on facebook etc, I usually manually add the following to the index.html after the <script> element.

<font color=blue>    <img src="preview.png" style="height:1px;width:1px" /></font>

And results in this :

<img src="http://johnnysix.net/games/play/example.jpg" border="0" />

Couldn?t you make a sprite for that ? Would be more comfortable cause you can easily fill it and play with effects and so on.

Or do I missunderstand something ?

This should be done using Open Graph image meta tags and I think it's assumed that users will be editing the outputted HTML themselves. I'd recommend adding it after the export then ensuring you don't overwrite the index.html file.

Edited the original so it's more easily understood!

Ashley - would something like this be possible?

Or is possible for the user to change the template used for the HTML output?

I'm not too keen on adding platform specific things to all exporter outputs. I also really want to keep the export totally spartan, since an image on the HTML page itself will take up a bit more memory, not be subject to layout-by-layout texture management, and so on. If you really want this, can't you just edit it in after export?

Thanks for the response, I am changing it after export right now, I was just wondering if the option could be included.

I was hoping editing the HTML file in the exporter folder would add the line,as this would allow some options, that shouldn't affect anything else, for example, to add a couple of open graph things like:

<font color="blue">

        <meta property="og:image" content="preview.png"/>

        <meta property="og:title" content="New Project"/>

</font>

I just did a quick test - open graph works with a local reference and without having to do the 1px image hack. <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle">

<img src="http://johnnysix.net/games/fall/fb.jpg" border="0">

Or is it possible for a user to modify the HTML exported to create the additional metainfo and save a custom preview/icon etc , or is this part of the Construct binary?

If the former, I'll have a go at making a plug-in instead. <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />

I tried editing the index.html and the export.html in the exporter folder, but trying to shoehorn the additional line in didn't work.

Is there another file/template that's referenced, or does this get generated from construct itself?

It always uses the templates in the exporter file, but there are lots of them (e.g. export-fs.html when using a fullscreen-in-browser mode).

Awesome, thanks Ashley. <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />