My Pictures Feature Requests

[reven]

- Read about the rotate function and thought if it would be possible to do an automatical rotate (just for display) of jpg images according to their rotation info found in the EXIF info. I just have to many images from my Digicam which are not rotated correctly but that have the info in the EXIF Data.

ill look into this once all the basic are working.

- And then one more general thing. You said something about a complete redesign of the skin.xml files. Could you insert a possibiliy to deactivate some of the buttons, that can not be used if you have your PC in another room than your TV set (like all the ripping buttons in the myMusic and MyVideo plugins) or for someone like me who is just not interested in using them.

yeah as i slowly update the other plugins ill make the menus configurable (ill put this on the todo list for my pics).

on a side note, just to let everyone know whats working
- zoom ! it works how you would expect it to (big thanks to smeghead and Heyt for their help on this, its a lot trickier than you would expect).
- folder.png are now automatically generated if a folder is missing a folder image. ie the 2x2 image thumbnail, displaying the first 4 images found as the folders image (err just like windows does it), i decided to use .png to keep the transparency.
- panning is working correctly aswell, like you can no longer pan off way to the side so the picture is no longer seen (it will stop you from going past the edges).

whats not working exactly how i would like it
- transistions on larger images, its slow and looks ugly. if anyone has got any knowledge/experience on how to improve the transistion let me know, the current code does a loop from 1.0f to 0.2 with step 0.1f and then 0.2 to 0.5f with a step of 0.05f.

then using that step

Code:

//Set alpha in the ColorMatrix
colorMatrix.Matrix33 = 1.0f - transparency;
// Set color matrix of imageAttributes
imageAttributes.SetColorMatrix(colorMatrix,ColorMatrixFlag.Default,ColorAdjustType.Bitmap);

transparency is what being decreased.

and then the paint method

Code:

Graphics.FromImage(compositeScreenImage).DrawImage(image, ScreenImageRect, srcx, srcy, (int)Math.Round(srcwidth), (int)Math.Round(srcheight), GraphicsUnit.Pixel, imageAttributes);

if you can spot a beginners mistake in that, let me know (never toyed with this stuff before, so pretty much used the first working code i came across).

[A_Brass]

- transistions on larger images, its slow and looks ugly. if anyone has got any knowledge/experience on how to improve the transistion let me know, the current code does a loop from 1.0f to 0.2 with step 0.1f and then 0.2 to 0.5f with a step of 0.05f.

Glad to hear its moving along. Can't wait to see it.

Are the transistions going to be an on/off item or always-on? Just wondering.
If its going to slow load time on large images I wouldn't use it. My PVR is already over taxed.

[capone]

Always been a huge fan of the "My" series.

Don't know if anyone mentioned it, but the only Image improvement would be to error handling/memory management.

I love just turning on the random slide show, but sometimes it hangs on an image, and I don't know which one so I can remove it. It would also be ok to just do some kind of try/pass function where it just skips it.

It would also be cool if it handled large image libraries better in random slide show. If you have a large number, the size of the temp list seems to crash it out after a while.

[reven]

It would also be cool if it handled large image libraries better in random slide show. If you have a large number, the size of the temp list seems to crash it out after a while.

how large are you talking? i tested on about 1000 images, but i dont suppose that is that massive for some.

Are the transistions going to be an on/off item or always-on? Just wondering.
If its going to slow load time on large images I wouldn't use it. My PVR is already over taxed.

ill make it configurable to be turned on/off.

[reven]

im a genius! transitions are working perfect on all image sizes now ! im so happy

i should have an alpha release out in a few days (or even later today).

no new features are really done yet, just want to a few people with large image collections to test it and see how it goes. once the memory probably is solved ill start adding the other new features like "copy" and looking into rotating the EXIF (or whatever it was).

[capone]

looks like I have 3.4k images in my photo dir (daaamn).

I don't think it's a matter of accomodating an ammount, but maybe changing how the temp data is stored. I program in Cold Fusion, and if I were doing it there, I would make a temp table Access and hold the IDs of the images there, and just read from the table (using no mem). I don't know if you're able to do somehting like that.

Otherwise, how about just a random photo show...not creating a random play list, and just doing random numbers and pulling an image?

[reven]

yeah but i still need to make a list of the images, i do this via a recursive directory search. then i (well in new version) shuffle that list about 10 times, and then just go through that list, im sure .net shouldnt have a problem with an arraylist of 3500 (or any size really). i think the next version should handle things like this a lot better, try the alpha when it comes out and tell me how it goes, im sure i could fix it.