grunt-sprite-glue

Sprite generator with Glue & Grunt.

Getting Started

This plugin requires

• Grunt ~0.4.5
• Glue 0.9.4~

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins.

Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-sprite-glue');

The "spglue" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named spglue to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  spglue: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      files: {
        '/path/to/': '/path/images/'
      }
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

options.algorithm

Type: String Default value: null

The criteria that glue uses to order the images before adding them to the canvas can be tunned.

• square
• vertical
• vertical-right
• horizontal
• horizontal-bottom
• dianomal

options.crop

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Optimize our sprite by croping all the unnecessary transparent spaces that the original images could have.

options.caat

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Generate both a sprite image and a caat metadata file.

options.cachebuster

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Automatically add the hash of the PNG file to the CSS url

options.cachebusterFilename

Type: String Default value: null

Insted of using the hash of the PNG as a queryarg it uses it as part of the filename.

options.cachebusterFilenameOnlySprites

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Only apply filename cachebusting to the sprite image and not to both the CSS and the sprite image.

options.cocos2d

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Generate both a sprite image and a xml metadata file compatible with cocos2d.

options.css

Type: String Default value: null

Choose an individual folder for css you.

options.img

Type: String Default value: null

Choose an individual folder for image.

options.cssTemplate

Type: String Default value: null

You can use your own css template

options.force

Type: Boolean Default value: false

In order to avoid this behaviour you can use force and glue will always build the sprites.

options.followLinks

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Follow symbolic links.

options.html

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Generate a test html per sprite using all the available CSS classes. This option is only useful for testing purposes.

options.json

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Generate both a sprite image and a json metadata file.

options.jsonFormat

Type: String Default value: null

You can customize how the generated JSON will look. You can choose between array and hash.

options.less

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Glue can also create .less files

options.lessTemplate

Type: String Default value: null

You can use your own less template

options.margin

Type: Number Default value: null

If you want to spread the images around the sprite but you don’t want to count this space as image width/height.

options.namespace

Type: String Default value: null

your own namespace you can override the default one.

options.noImg

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Don’t create any sprite image.

options.noCss

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Don’t create any CSS file.

options.ordering

Type: String Default value: null

Before processing the images using the algorithm glue orders the images.

• maxside
• width
• height
• area
• filename

options.padding

Type: Number Default value: null

If you want to add the same padding around all images.

options.png8

Type: Boolean Default value: false

By using the flag png8 the output image format will be png8 instead of png32.

options.project

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Generate several sprites for a project.

options.pseudoClassSeparator

Type: String Default value: null

using the filename of the source images you can customize the pseudo class related to the images.

options.quiet

Type: Boolean Default value: false

This flag will make glue suppress all console output.

options.recursive

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Read directories recursively and add all the images to the same sprite.

options.ratios

Type: String Default value: null

Automatically scale down your sprites to automatically fit them into low-dpi devices.

options.retina

Type: Boolean Default value: false

The option retina is only a shortcut for ratios=2,1.

options.source

Type: String Default value: null

Source directory.

options.output

Type: String Default value: null

Output directory.

options.scss

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Glue can also create .scss files.

options.scssTemplate

Type: String Default value: null

You can use your own scss template

options.separator

Type: String Default value: null

Separator for the CSS class names.

options.spriteNamespace

Type: String Default value: null

Sprite’s name as past of the CSS class namespace.

options.url

Type: String Default value: null

PNG file name the relative url between the CSS and the PNG file.

options.watch

Type: Boolean Default value: false

While you are developing a site it could be quite frustrating running Glue.

Usage Examples

spglue: {
        options: {
        },
        dev: {
            options: {
                project: true,
                scss: true
            },
            files: {
                'css/sass': 'images/sprites'
            }
        }
    }

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