We're thinking of a provider-based model for the new module. Like MS, who've maid a lot provider based in (ASP).NET 2.0.

The control that helps you finding the image (now: upload or choose from filemanager) will probably be provider based. That is: you can make your own and plug it in.

There you or we (or us together) can make a 'thing' that does not get an image from somewhere, but creates one on the fly, based on the settings you provide.

The control (in our current design) also is responsible for rendering the image (or media-content in general) to the vistor. In the same way as a module.ascx is responsible for rendering to the visitor, and module_edit.ascx is responsible for rendering to the author or editor.

I hope you get this. We'll publish some models about this -hopefully- soon.

Is this what you'd like the module to do? What would you like the editing interface to be able to do? Would you like to be able to create one image at a time? Or would you like to have programmatic support for this (setting properties of the module from code)?

PS: Do you have any experience regarding this subject: creating images on the fly?