SmugSaver

GarethLewin

Hi.

I have just put up a pre-release version of a screensaver for SmugMug people called SmugSaver.

You can find it at http://www.garethlewin.com/smugsaver

Please note that this is a pre-release version. It might be buggy! There is very little documentation, although it should be pretty simple.

There are a lot of extra ideas/features I had for this, but want to see what people think of it / ask for first. I also want to make sure I get a proper release out before the 31st.

Right now the screensaver is windows only. I wrote it in .NET to save me some time. If there is any real demand I'll look at rewriting it for the mac.

devbobo

Gareth.... sounds sweet

I need to fire up a windows machine so that I can have a play.

Cheers,

David

GarethLewin

I had to post a new version, found that if you get albums with nickname, obviously the password field is not set.

But I did find that the passwordhint is set, even if it is just an empty string, so I am filtering on that.

devbobo wrote:

Gareth.... sounds sweet

I need to fire up a windows machine so that I can have a play.

Cheers,

David

cabbey

download link on http://www.garethlewin.com/smugmug/ is busted.

What platform is this anyway? I've never seen a "msi" file... so I'm guessing it's some proprietary windows thing?

devbobo

cabbey wrote:

download link on http://www.garethlewin.com/smugmug/ is busted.

What platform is this anyway? I've never seen a "msi" file... so I'm guessing it's some proprietary windows thing?

oh cabbey

GarethLewin

cabbey wrote:

download link on http://www.garethlewin.com/smugmug/ is busted.

What platform is this anyway? I've never seen a "msi" file... so I'm guessing it's some proprietary windows thing?

msi files are Microsoft Install Modules.

Not much different than dmg files for mac.

The reason the download link is broken is because you didn't follow my link, you went to /smugmug not /smugsaver

(And I made the same mistake at some stage, so I uploaded a bad .php file to /smugmug)

cabbey

GarethLewin wrote:

msi files are Microsoft Install Modules.

Not much different than dmg files for mac.

yeah just read up on them... kinda different... looks more like a package than a dmg. But point is... windows software, not much use to me.

The reason the download link is broken is because you didn't follow my link, you went to /smugmug not /smugsaver

(And I made the same mistake at some stage, so I uploaded a bad .php file to /smugmug)

Ya know, I was trying to figure out where I woulda gotten that bogus url from, then I found it: http://dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=668111&postcount=27 that's the url you posted in the api contest thread.

GarethLewin

cabbey wrote:

yeah just read up on them... kinda different... looks more like a package than a dmg. But point is... windows software, not much use to me.



Ya know, I was trying to figure out where I woulda gotten that bogus url from, then I found it: http://dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=668111&postcount=27 that's the url you posted in the api contest thread.

Oh thanks for catching that! My bad!

lfortier

Just installed it on my XP machine and it works perfectly.

I love how it selects an appropriate color mat for each picture.

Thanks Much,

mjohnsonperl

I've been using it for over a week now, and really like it.

Is it downloading a image each time, or does it cache the images on the hard drive after it has downloaded them once?

Is it grabbing the original image, or a custom size to fit the screen resolution?

Sewerman

Thanks,
Works A ok on my laptop!!

Sewerman

Thanks,
Works A ok on my laptop!!

gman33

This IS awesome...great job.

Would be nice to offer this to clients for their pictures that reside in a password protected gallery....just a thought

Thanks again...just downloaded in on XP and appears to work just fine

Ed

GarethLewin

mjohnsonperl wrote:

I've been using it for over a week now, and really like it.

Is it downloading a image each time, or does it cache the images on the hard drive after it has downloaded them once?

Is it grabbing the original image, or a custom size to fit the screen resolution?

Thanks, sorry have been super busy + on trip to Vegas so didn't keep track.

It downloads each time. I will add a cache. I had one but it didn't delete old files so it got big and I didn't want to ship that way.

It grabs "large" (or medium if you limit it to that) files and scales them. I thought of getting custom sizes, but even on my 24" large seemed good enough, do you want me to change that?

GarethLewin

gman33 wrote:

This IS awesome...great job.

Would be nice to offer this to clients for their pictures that reside in a password protected gallery....just a thought

Thanks again...just downloaded in on XP and appears to work just fine

Ed

Thanks, yes I was thinking of that, a way to custom tailor it to a specific gallery, I'll look into that too.

GarethLewin

Does anyone have any other feature requests?

I was thinking of showing descriptions, is that useful to anyone?

gman33

GarethLewin wrote:

Thanks, yes I was thinking of that, a way to custom tailor it to a specific gallery, I'll look into that too.

That would be great...it has been working great so far...I appreciate you creating this.

mjohnsonperl

GarethLewin wrote:

Does anyone have any other feature requests?

I was thinking of showing descriptions, is that useful to anyone?

I thought if you had it go through all the albums on an account it might be nice to show which album it's currently displaying an image from.

On most of my images I don't have actualy descriptions, it just has the file name, so descriptions wouldn't be a benefit for me... yet, but it's a nice option to have. If you could turn it on and off I think it would be cool.