My Pictures 3 alpha

[reven]

so anyone experiencing any bugs with the latest version? the memory leak is gone ?

i havent done any more releases, since im still not sure how to implement the playlist feature, i dont really like any of the ways discussed in these thread, or well they could be better, any ideas? (once the playlist is done, ill do the final version).

[gsigso]

I've noticed a couple of things:
a) Using MVP I notice that occasionally, when using the random display that a pic does not display for the time listed in the setting (currently set to 5 seconds)
b) Again with MVP and random display, I occasionally get either a totally black frame or an almost black frame where you can faintly make out the underlyng photo.

Not really enought to complain about. Just a "feature" that probably was not intended. WAF of GBPVR not diminished in any way shape or form.

[reven]

a) Using MVP I notice that occasionally, when using the random display that a pic does not display for the time listed in the setting (currently set to 5 seconds)

this is probably just an error being caught when trying to load the next image, i think ive fixed this (well improved it) in the release im using

b) Again with MVP and random display, I occasionally get either a totally black frame or an almost black frame where you can faintly make out the underlyng photo.

is this happening with the "show transisions" turned on? if so, turn it off, it wont really work on the mvp (you can only show about 2 frames per second on the mvp, to slow for the transistions to look good).

[A_Brass]

so anyone experiencing any bugs with the latest version? the memory leak is gone ?

I haven't had any major problems. The copy feature works very well, no bugs. The web image works, even the Animated GIF support. No memory leak issues.

The plugin is slow to create folder.jpg's and Thumbnail's but I would guess that's more a issue with the number of photo's I have on my desktop PC.

So far I love it. If my wife liked the "Blue" skin I would move it over from my test box to the LRPC (Living Room PC).

Another question on the copy feature, Is the current implementaion the final? Or were you going to add a way to enter a new directory name before copy? The way it works now will work for me, I'm just wondering. And, if the copy finds a file or folder with the same name it skips the copy right?

Thanks for some great work.

[reven]

The plugin is slow to create folder.jpg's and Thumbnail's but I would guess that's more a issue with the number of photo's I have on my desktop PC.

thats probably just the size of the pictures (and maybe how many files that are non pictures in the dir, it goes thru every file until it finds 4 image files). all my images are only about 100-200k large, and my computer creates about 2 folder.png files a second (so yeah probably just are large image files).

Another question on the copy feature, Is the current implementaion the final? Or were you going to add a way to enter a new directory name before copy?

i was originally going to do this, but now im not sure, i suppose for digital cameras it makes sense, since their folders are something like "SFWSA123" (ok thats just some random keys i hit, but they got strange names ) ill think about it, which means ill probably do it, which means, ok ill do it, you twisted my arm.

The way it works now will work for me, I'm just wondering. And, if the copy finds a file or folder with the same name it skips the copy right?

yeah if it finds a file on the same name it just skips the file, its to complicated to change the message box to show "do you want to replace..." "yes","no","yes to all","no to all". if it finds a folder, it just adds the files to that folder (well in theory, im 99% sure on this, not at home so cant look at the code, but im pretty sure it works that way).

[Danka]

- webimages (using .xml file, full support of zooming rotating etc, plus will generate a thumbnail)...

nice work reven.

I've installed the plugin, and i'm not quite sure i understand how the web images come into play... i see there's an example.xml file you posted, do i point to this file from the settings for the virtual roots?

tia, Danka

[reven]

just save a .xml file (with that crap inside it, using notepad or whatever to edit it) and if it sees a .xml file (i might change the extensions, since at the moment every .xml file it comes across it assumes its a webimage) it will show it in filelist, and then you just click on it (well hit "ok"/"enter") and it should launch into fullscreen mode and show the image (once downloaded, it will say "downloading ...") and then it should automatically refresh the image every xx amount of seconds (which you set in the xml file). so you can sort/group your webimages into seperate folders etc. you just cant do a slideshow of webimages (but can zoom/rotate etc).

[Danka]

wow, talk about speedy service... now i gotcha.

Thanks so much for clarifying that for me, its a great idea and works like a charm.

later

[reven]

wow, talk about speedy service... now i gotcha.

Thanks so much for clarifying that for me, its a great idea and works like a charm.

later

im at uni, kind of bored (3hours to kill until next lecture)

[jasjol]

Hi,
If I understand right REVEN will be adding playlist of pictures in this release?
Will this be so that I can mark pic 1 from dir1 and pic 2 from dir 4 to be on a pic playlist?
This would be awesome!

Today I have one computer where I use Photoshop Album 2.0 to put categories on each picture.
Categories are: family, familymember, "fewer pics to show friends" , travel to X, Travel to Y, chistmas year X etc.
It is possible to add several categories to any picture which then makes me able to click on several categories before presenting a slideshow.

for example one time I show all the pic in "travel to X" - another time I add "travel to X " and "fewer pics to show friends" and "travel to Y" - to sort out pictures that meet all criterias.

This works very fine in Photoshop Album 2.0 - but I can only show them on that PC - or I have to make a extra copy of Pictures for certain combination of categories and put in to my GBPVR PC - which is a hassle.

It would be nice to have the option of setting several categories per picture in MyPictures - maybe even with the possibility to import info from other programs via a text file?
Like Pic name, folder, category, category, category