Originally Posted by Nikolai Appearance? I don't recall S*E having an option named like that Can you please provide more info?

In the S*E album settings you have the option "Display Custom Header" which I assumed corresponded to the SM gallery option "Appearance", since no other SM option seemed to fit. Checking "Display Custom Header" does not set the SM option "Appearance" to "custom", as I expected that it would.

Originally Posted by Nikolai Hm-m You're talking about album keywords, not images keywords, right? I'm using this feature all the time and it's been working fine, and I never heard from anybody that it was not working... Can you please double check, and, if it is still happening, give me a specific example of the keywords string you used? Thank you!

Yes, I was referring to album keywords. I did another test this morning and if no quotation marks are used, the words transfer OK. Anything following the first quote is discarded. I think using quotes around groups of words in SM gallery customization behaves the same way, although it *does* work when assigning image keywords. What is the proper way to insert "Las Cruces" for example, so that it does not receive a hit only on the word "Las"?

Originally Posted by Nikolai AFAIK, those fields are not supported but the official production API calls, hence - . They have been introduced AFTER the production API was released. S*E uses API (for most cases), hence it can only be as good as the API allows.

Thanks for clearing that up.

Originally Posted by Nikolai Thank you for your comments! I hope all the issues above will be resolved in no time to your satisfaction:-) Cheers!

I look forward to using your program and since I shot just over 1000 photos yesterday, it will certainly be put to the test soon. Thank you for the prompt response!
Ed

You have found a bug (with the quoted keywords). Didn't happen for a while...

At this point I can't tell you whose bug it is (may be mine, may be not), but I would most likely know by the end of today. And if it's mine - it will be fixed today, too:-), so watch the version number:-)

I'll double check the "display custom header/appearance" issue. At this point I can only tell that this API feature would work only for power/pro SM accounts, so unless you have one - it would not work . You can adjust S*E account settings to match your actual SM account ones, so at least S*E would tell you which options you can and cannot use.

I look forward to using your program and since I shot just over 1000 photos yesterday, it will certainly be put to the test soon. Thank you for the prompt response! Ed

Thank you for trying S*E and for the great feedback!

Cheers!

Ed,
I should honestly that I have no idea what controls the "Appearance" feature, let alone there are TWO of them, which even internally do not necessarily match.
All I can say at this point is that API has Boolean "Header" parameter (dubbed as "Display Custom Header"), which, according to the docs, should work only for power and pro SM accounts.

No Appearance parameter or anything resembling it whatsoever

Unless Don or some other more knowledgeable people pitch in, I'd say we have to live with the status quo. Hope it's not a show stopper for you

I'm working on quoted keywords issue now.

Originally Posted by HDVideo Yes, I was referring to album keywords. I did another test this morning and if no quotation marks are used, the words transfer OK. Anything following the first quote is discarded. I think using quotes around groups of words in SM gallery customization behaves the same way, although it *does* work when assigning image keywords. What is the proper way to insert "Las Cruces" for example, so that it does not receive a hit only on the word "Las"? Ed

Ed,
it's something either on a server or in the documentation.
I submitted an issue to the bugs thread. Can't really do much myself until I hear back, sorry

Dgrin made something that I've not seen this thread yet. Was just having a look at the S*E site for the fun of seeing the latest regristration figures as I've read your statement of 200+ in another thread - instead I see the new release that almost passed without my recognition.

Seeing the history makes me not wanting to update...you touched the holy grail of windows by taking over the ctrl-esc hotkey! Remember not everybody has a keyboard with the winkey to access the start-button without the mouse and even worse, not everybody has this key enabled (one can disable it preventing accidently hitting it and still using the combinations like winkey+e)! How dare you?
Also this is the only way one can bring up the taskbar while using VNC or other remote control programs which may not recognize winkey's at all.

Make it go away - this shortcut mustn't be touched by anyone!!

Thanks from the one,
Sebastian

You got me!

I'm lying in shame and dirt and covering my head with dust and ashes.
I do deserve to be severely punished

How stupid can one man be? My only excuse is that we had a nice, long Friday night beer party.

OK, here's the deal - there was no shortcut before anyway. Windows intercepts it first anyway, so no harm done. I'll remove it now, so it will come out with whatever next update I deem to upload. In the mean time use main menu Process|Cancel or secondary toolbar cancel button (the one with Red Light on it).

Thank you for catching that, and watching my back in general!

.. than Filmstrip support will make you less angry, oh hawk-eyed one

Glad you enjoyed your Friday night beer party! Plus - just admit it that this was only a test if I'm actually still paying attention to what you're doing around here.

I never missed a hotkey for that - why would I want to stop the transfer anyways - never dared to cancel one as far as I remember - my PC is running as long as S*E's ready. So you might consider a feature to power it down after the task is complete. With full support for the various standby/hiberanation modes, of course.
Actually I haven't mangaged to keep a single hotkey for S*E in mind. I often switch between log and standard view, but still don't remember the hotkey for it.

Sebastian

Originally Posted by Nikolai .. than Filmstrip support will make you less angry, oh hawk-eyed one

Are you referring to the Filmstip thingie that keeps on crashing in one's IE a splitsecond after it has been set in motion? Ok, sometimes it takes a couple of seconds...
The interesting part is that this has to been caused by one of the numerous hotfixes one has installed for IE6. A friend of one has a lot fewer hotfixes and it works fine for him...

Greetings from the one,
Sebastian

Originally Posted by rainforest1155 Glad you enjoyed your Friday night beer party! Plus - just admit it that this was only a test if I'm actually still paying attention to what you're doing around here.

I always count that at least one person except me reads the History:-)

I never missed a hotkey for that - why would I want to stop the transfer anyways - never dared to cancel one as far as I remember - my PC is running as long as S*E's ready.

Transfer, yes, but now same action also controls image info download, and in the nearest future, it will be also controlling image download, so...who knows

So you might consider a feature to power it down after the task is complete. With full support for the various standby/hiberanation modes, of course.

Good idea , I was thinking of that myself, prolly will do some time soon!

Actually I haven't mangaged to keep a single hotkey for S*E in mind. I often switch between log and standard view, but still don't remember the hotkey for it. Sebastian

You don't have to remember - they all in menus and button hints.
That one - Ctrl+T
And your'e correct - there's not much need for them anyway. F1 can be helpful, though:-)

Cheers!

Originally Posted by rainforest1155 Are you referring to the Filmstip thingie that keeps on crashing in one's IE a splitsecond after it has been set in motion? Ok, sometimes it takes a couple of seconds... The interesting part is that this has to been caused by one of the numerous hotfixes one has installed for IE6. A friend of one has a lot fewer hotfixes and it works fine for him... Greetings from the one, Sebastian

Although I have al the latest updates on all my XPs and thus far this feature never crashed (finges crossed). The only thing that drives me nuts with it is the counter-intuitive arrows action...

Originally Posted by Nikolai You don't have to remember - they all in menus and button hints. That one - Ctrl+T

That's my point - I see this one every time I click on it manually in the menu, but still can't keep it.
I'm just not the hotkey-kinda-guy.
Anyone in for coldkeys?

Sebastian

Originally Posted by Nikolai Although I have al the latest updates on all my XPs and thus far this feature never crashed (finges crossed). The only thing that drives me nuts with it is the counter-intuitive arrows action...

It's probably a Win2000 specific hotfix.
They haven't fixed the atypical scrolling, yet?? I thought so.

Sebastian

PS:Quite a chat we've got going on here? S*E release threads are somewhat private-public chat channels, aren't they?

PS2: I like this kind of post count number...777

Originally Posted by rainforest1155 PS:Quite a chat we've got going on here? S*E release threads are somewhat private-public chat channels, aren't they?

I agree, not many people read this type of threads, let alone leave some comments. Too nerdy/geeky/techy I guess.. I need to post some shots of homecoming queen to get any additional input

PS2: I like this kind of post count number...777

Congrats:-)

Thanks again for the quick response. Don't worry about any of these issues being a "show stopper" for me. I can already see many benefits to using the program and will be purchasing a license when the trial perior expires in a few days.

Keep up the great work!

Ed

Huh!? Seems like Andy did your laundry as all release threads have been merged - so anybody will ever dig up the sin of yours.
The tuned history looks really good to me now. Maybe you could try ctrl+break-key as the shortcut for stoping the current action? You almost can't hit it accidently and it makes perfect sense to me and I'm already remembering it even though it doesn't exists yet.
I'm really wondering why nobody ever uses the break-key for anything even though all keyboards have it. Except for our beloved Billy Boy who used it for opening up the system properties in combination with the famous winkey. But I'm not using this combination as often as ctrl-esc.

How's that for an alternative?

Sebastian

Originally Posted by rainforest1155 Huh!? Seems like Andy did your laundry as all release threads have been merged - so anybody will ever dig up the sin of yours. The tuned history looks really good to me now. Maybe you could try ctrl+break-key as the shortcut for stoping the current action? You almost can't hit it accidently and it makes perfect sense to me and I'm already remembering it even though it doesn't exists yet. I'm really wondering why nobody ever uses the break-key for anything even though all keyboards have it. Except for our beloved Billy Boy who used it for opening up the system properties in combination with the famous winkey. But I'm not using this combination as often as ctrl-esc. How's that for an alternative? Sebastian

Yeah, Andy is super cool..

As to the break key - it's such a hassle to intercept it at the application level, so no wonder nobody's using it, especially with the new breed of keyboards, where all the special keys are merged together and often require some special "mode" to be functional. That break and the scrolllock keys are just two damn space takers, never saw any app (except msdos or windows, which you mentioned) that would put them to any reasonable use..

Cheers!

• Important bug fix (infinite loop on corrupted files) - many thanks to Kip for assistance!
• "Update Sync Tree" action works

HTH

The latest version allows for automatic shutdown after the upload (Sebastian, remember you were asking? )
You can select desired option (Suspend, Hibernate, Logoff, Shutdown) even after the upload starts, since it's checked only upon upload completion.
Cheers!

Originally Posted by Nikolai The latest version allows for automatic shutdown after the upload (Sebastian, remember you were asking? ) You can select desired option (Suspend, Hibernate, Logoff, Shutdown) even after the upload starts, since it's checked only upon upload completion. Cheers!

Looks I've got my personal genie in a bottle! Thanks for the awesome fast implementation!
Now how about some snow over here in Germany?! I'm sick of the wet'n'dark weather.

You're the man! *hip-hip-hooraay*


Sebastian