It took me some time to realize I would not find a decent solution with Jquery Interface to implement some sort of scaling function in my Imagecache javascript crop (formerly imagecrop) module. After some thinking, I found a solution which satisfies me enough to release this for drupal 5. It's now possible to create an imagecache preset with only the javascript action and use the original image to crop - instead of first adding a scaling function, which would result in frustration. On the crop page you can scale the image now.

It's a select box at this point, I might change it to a textfield if I get many request for this. For now, it does what I and some clients want. Submit a patch if you want otherwhise (think: a setting on the imagecrop settings page).

Anyway, there's an issue about this feature at http://drupal.org/node/281867. Use that page to report problems if you find them. Oh - and I can't stress this enough - *only* about the scaling problem in D5, thanks :) So, if you're interested, go to http://drupal.org/project/imagecrop and test out the development version. When the issue above is closed in two weeks, I'll roll out a new release containing some other small, but important fixes!

I'll start porting the project to D6 after the drupalcon and - good news - it will use JQuery UI instead of Interface which gives me the opportunity to actually scale the image easier with jquery instead of a page refresh.

Update Aug 3, 20:34: A cool patch by swortis now supports the thickbox module. Instead of a window popup, the thickbox overlay is used. Coolness!

Trivial stuff to mention:

• I renamed the project to Imagecache javascript crop instead of imagecrop. Makes more sense, really.
• Yhager, ping-pong me on irc next week, we really need to have that talk!

I made a small screencast about a new Drupal module I'm currently writing. It uses imagecache 2 and it's ability to let other modules define their own actions. My module provides a javascript crop action and a cropping box on the image you want to crop. It currently can hook into the imagefield widget and knows which presets in imagecache are available with the 'javascript crop' action. The difference with eyedrop and imagefield_crop is that it doesn't provide its own image cropping widget, instead we hook into the existing imagefield. It is not fully finished yet, but you can see a preview underneath.

• Hook into more modules (image, gallery etc).
• Get this patch into ImageCache 2. (the patch isn't needed anymore!)
• Merge this module with eyedrop & imagefield crop / combine our efforts since Imagecache has a really strong API.