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## About The Pull Request In my effort to make the /icons/ folder cleaner and more intuitive instead of having to rely on recalling names of stuff and looking them up in code to find them for poor sods such as myself, plus in spurt of complusion to organize stuff, here goes. I've tracked all changes in commit descriptions. A lot still to be done, but I know these waves go over dozens of files making things slow, so went lighter on it. Destroyed useless impostor files taking up space and cleaned a stray pixel on my way. ## Why It's Good For The Game Cleaner /icons/ file means saner spriters, less time spent. Stray pixels and impostor files (ones which are copies of actually used ones elsewhere) are not good. ## Changelog 🆑 image: Cleaned a single stray pixel in a single frame of a bite telegraphing accidentaly found while re-organizing the files. /🆑
Asset cache system
Framework for managing browser assets (javascript,css,images,etc)
This manages getting the asset to the client without doing unneeded re-sends, as well as utilizing any configured cdns.
There are two frameworks for using this system:
Asset datum:
Make a datum in asset_list_items.dm with your browser assets for your thing.
Checkout asset_list.dm for the helper subclasses
The simple subclass will most likely be of use for most cases.
Call get_asset_datum() with the type of the datum you created to get your asset cache datum
Call .send(client|usr) on that datum to send the asset to the client. Depending on the asset transport this may or may not block.
Call .get_url_mappings() to get an associated list with the urls your assets can be found at.
Manual backend:
See the documentation for /datum/asset_transport for the backend api the asset datums utilize.
The global variable SSassets.transport contains the currently configured transport.
Notes:
Because byond browse() calls use non-blocking queues, if your code uses output() (which bypasses all of these queues) to invoke javascript functions you will need to first have the javascript announce to the server it has loaded before trying to invoke js functions.
To make your code work with any CDNs configured by the server, you must make sure assets are referenced from the url returned by get_url_mappings() or by asset_transport's get_asset_url(). (TGUI also has helpers for this.) If this can not be easily done, you can bypass the cdn using legacy assets, see the simple asset datum for details.
CSS files that use url() can be made to use the CDN without needing to rewrite all url() calls in code by using the namespaced helper datum. See the documentation for /datum/asset/simple/namespaced for details.