My Pictures Feature Requests

[reven]

im completely redoing my pictures based on updated versions of my videos (its the best written one out of them, but still should be rewritten ). anyway since im redoing the entire thing, now would be the time to request a feature, so im not trying to squeeze it in later and doing a poor job of getting it in there (ie ill probably run into a design problem or something, lots of those in my videos etc).

so far im probably going to do:
- webcams (similar to the webcams plugin)
- possible a popup menu, with stuff like "print" "email?" (tell me if you would use these)

and probably going to drop
- playlists (since you probably all just start music playback from one of the music plugins)
- rslideshow (does anyone ever use this? its in xbmc so thats why i added it to begin with).

at the moment ive just got it to display in gbpvr (you cant even change dirs yet ). so it will be awhile off (maybe a week, im on holidays).

the skin is completely redone, and ive made askin dir called "my series" which eventually my music/vids/programs/pics will use a skin.xml file in there for all the common elements (eg the different view selectors, menu buttons, popup box etc). which will save on time for skin designers in the future. and with a seperate skin.xml for all the common things, my pictures skin.xml is only about 20-30 lines now (compared to about 200 before).

so you got a feature request post it. a comment post it. you want to bitch about something, yeah post it (might give me a laugh).

"keep watching the skies"

[smeghead]

This is going back a bit and I can't find the link in the forum but what about having a common skin.xml in the main gbpvr directory that specifies all the common elements. Perhaps if you (reven) make a start on this since you're redoing all your plugin skins then others will follow and we get a consistent looking pvr.

Now where is that link?

Just a thought

As for My Pictures, how about rotate/flip?

[reven]

As for My Pictures, how about rotate/flip?

its already there, red/green in fullscreen i think.

as to one common place for everything..... that means id probably have to do 3 skin files, menu buttons come from gbpvr root skin file, selectors (different view thingys) from my series root, and then plugin specific things.

ill post another thread and see what the other plugin developers think, there should be some rules for this. ( i suppose in the future sub could extend the pluginhelper to get specific objects, eg pluginHelper.getStandardImage(string name,hashtable) gets the menu button composite image, or something like that).

[reven]

ok just an update (if anyone is interested). ive added
- transistions on images, so the old image fades out and new image fades out (looks pretty cool)
- webcam images (need a full url of the image, not web video streams). im decided (could change my mind if somebody thinks up a better idea) to use xml file, like

Code:

<webimage><url>http://gbpvr.com/pic.jpg</url><refresh>30</refresh></url>

refresh is how many seconds until the image is automatically refreshed.
- webcam images also create a thumbnail based on the first image they ever download (so you get a pretty little thumbnail... i like thumbnails).
- zoom is working better now (still not quite right)

at the moment my pc is just looping thru some pictures seeing if i get a memory error (i got 1280mb ram and no virtual memory, so it might take awhile for me to get an error).

todo
- non on the menu buttons do anything yet
- figure out how i can create a folder.jpg for folders using the standard 2x2 images (ie displaying the first 4 image in the directory, like windows does... anybody know how to do anything like this?.... im sure i can htink of something)

pretty sure im going to drop
- playlists (unless someone speaks out)
- rslideshow(not much point....)

[nightwalker]

I would hate to lose the playlist function in My Pictures.

As an alternate, how about something like having a playlist automaticlly start if found in a picture directory? This way you could define different playlists for different folders of pictures.

[dottore]

about transitions: is this just a fading (which is pretty cool) or can you implement various transitions and let the user decide? i personaly love the fading and scaling like the osx-screensaver does...

[reven]

nah its just a basic old pic fades out, new pic fades in(at the same time). no pan/scan feature like in mediaportal.

and at the moment with large images it does look jerky (2megs and above).

[A_Brass]

First of all, Love the current My Pictures, and I'm looking forward to your new version.

Wishlist items:
Would it be possible to add a "Copy Pictures" function? To copy pictures from memory cards to HD?

I'm not sure if this is just me but I get a out of memory error when I'm viewing large numbers of pic's. Mostly 3 megapixles each. Same problem with webcam's plugin. I'd love to see that go away.

[reven]

Wishlist items:
Would it be possible to add a "Copy Pictures" function? To copy pictures from memory cards to HD?

just need an example of a ui for this. something simple and not to complicated. probably will only let you copy to a one directory, onscreen keyboard asks for subdirectory name, then all the contents of that folder/memory card is copied to that new folder, sound about right? (accessible via a popup menu similiar to my videos).

I'm not sure if this is just me but I get a out of memory error when I'm viewing large numbers of pic's. Mostly 3 megapixles each. Same problem with webcam's plugin. I'd love to see that go away.

this is the reason im redoing the entire plugin, memory issues. all my pics are like 200kb max, so im going to need people to test a beta with large pics.

[Pioneer4x4]

I am very interested in this, I have not been pleased with any picture viewing in GBPVR, I prefer the hauppauge software for it. I honestly don't know what plugin I'm using, but I'm sure it isn't "My Pictures". I tried it back in Jan/Feb and didn't like it for some reason...

One thing I really would like is proper aspect ratio viewing, and proper zooming.

What I mean is, I was able to tweak the 'stretch factor' to get the pictures looking right, but only if they were 4x3 ratio pictures, alot of my digital camera's pictures are 3x2 ratio (normal print/film ratio). If My Pictures already does this, great!

As for zooming, the one I am using now is kinda weird. If you are viewing a portrait oriented picture, and zoom in, the black space stays on the side, and it crops unnecessarily.
The rotation, and slide show is OK.