S*E: new version 124 uploaded

Nikolai · May 19, 2005

It's been a while since I made any changes..
Yosemity, car troubles, new PS CS2, tons of post-processing..
All that kinda gave a little chance to step away from development.

Since a lot of new users experienced the same troubles (Windows often saves license starexplorer.ldf file as starexplorer.ldf.txt and it's hard to tell if it did), I finally made the change to the registration logic to accept this file name, too. Hopefully this would lower the amount of frustration and number of techsupport calls (it was not a lot, but it was enough that I got worried:-)

Also dblclick on the album would now open it online:-)

Thank you for your interest in S*E!

Cheers!:1drink

rainforest1155 · May 20, 2005

Oh, missed this thread. Much better than the overcrowded collection thread.
Discovered a possible bug. Now that I'm able to upload mpg-videos and they can't take IPTC-info I added a description and a keyword manually with S*E.
The description made it online in SM, but not the keyword.

Can you reproduce this? Tell me when you need more info on this one.

Missed you're weekly releases...good to have you back!

Sebastian

Nikolai · May 20, 2005

It's not a bug...

rainforest1155 wrote:

Oh, missed this thread. Much better than the overcrowded collection thread.
Discovered a possible bug. Now that I'm able to upload mpg-videos and they can't take IPTC-info I added a description and a keyword manually with S*E.
The description made it online in SM, but not the keyword.

Can you reproduce this? Tell me when you need more info on this one.

Missed you're weekly releases...good to have you back!
Sebastian

It's a feature I put in long time ago when I was expanding UI to accomodate for EXIF/IPTC hoping that API would follow.. However, until this time the upload method does not support the keywords, so it's kinda there, but not doing anything.. Maybe when Don has more time...

Cheers, mate!

rainforest1155 · May 20, 2005

Nikolai wrote:

It's a feature I put in long time ago when I was expanding UI to accomodate for EXIF/IPTC hoping that API would follow.. However, until this time the upload method does not support the keywords, so it's kinda there, but not doing anything.. Maybe when Don has more time...

Thanks for the info. It's good to know that it's not a bug. Maybe you should temporarily disable the keyword function in S*E or at least inform the user about that it'll probably not working.
Saves you possibly some support time when somebody tried using it for a batch of a couple of thousand shots and is now wondering why it didn't work after the batch was done....you get the idea.

Sebastian

Nikolai · May 20, 2005

So far

rainforest1155 wrote:

Thanks for the info. It's good to know that it's not a bug. Maybe you should temporarily disable the keyword function in S*E or at least inform the user about that it'll probably not working.
Saves you possibly some support time when somebody tried using it for a batch of a couple of thousand shots and is now wondering why it didn't work after the batch was done....you get the idea.

Sebastian

You were the only person who noticed this.. prolly nobody used it..

Besides, I hope that maybe this ruckus would inspire Don to add keywords support to upload API:-).. Just one optional struct item - no harm..

eugene · May 22, 2005

Nikolai wrote:

You were the only person who noticed this.. prolly nobody used it..
Besides, I hope that maybe this ruckus would inspire Don to add keywords support to upload API:-).. Just one optional struct item - no harm..

I noticed that problem myself, thought it was kind of odd, attributed it to *user* error

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onethumb · May 23, 2005

Nikolai wrote:

You were the only person who noticed this.. prolly nobody used it..
Besides, I hope that maybe this ruckus would inspire Don to add keywords support to upload API:-).. Just one optional struct item - no harm..

Sorry Nik, not gonna happen. It's not naturally a part of the upload process, so it doesn't really belong here.

You get an ImageID back, so just do a changeSettings on it or whatever.

Don

Nikolai · May 23, 2005

The Gods have spoken..

onethumb wrote:

Sorry Nik, not gonna happen. It's not naturally a part of the upload process, so it doesn't really belong here.

You get an ImageID back, so just do a changeSettings on it or whatever.

Don

Thanks for getting back on this one, Don!

I guess I'll disable/hide the box (at leas for now..)
Making another call would slow the upload process dramatically...
Sorry everybody!

rainforest1155 · May 24, 2005

Nikolai wrote:

Thanks for getting back on this one, Don!

I guess I'll disable/hide the box (at leas for now..)
Making another call would slow the upload process dramatically...
Sorry everybody!

I'm all for making an additional optional call. I use this option in only a few cases, but when I need it it's 100 times more efficient than doing it manual by going to the gallery and click on bulk keywording....load all the thumbnail...enter the data...
You could even state that it will dramaticly slow down the process, but I really like to have it.

Only when it's not that much work, of course.

Thanks Nik!
All the best,
Sebastian

Nikolai · May 24, 2005

OK, I'll see what I can do...

rainforest1155 wrote:

I'm all for making an additional optional call. I use this option in only a few cases, but when I need it it's 100 times more efficient than doing it manual by going to the gallery and click on bulk keywording....load all the thumbnail...enter the data...
You could even state that it will dramaticly slow down the process, but I really like to have it.

Only when it's not that much work, of course.

Thanks Nik!
All the best,
Sebastian

I guess I need to get back to the workshop, eh.. Man, I haven't processed even 25% of my smugmug trip. Solvang, Big Sur, Carmel, SF - all those beautifull pictures sitting there waiting to be touched by CS2.. Darn, never enough time..

rainforest1155 · May 25, 2005

Great! Thanks Nik for looking into it. Take your time, no need to rush things...the actual version is running rock-solid!

All the best,
Sebastian

Nikolai · May 25, 2005

Re: "version is running rock-solid!"

rainforest1155 wrote:

Great! Thanks Nik for looking into it. Take your time, no need to rush things...the actual version is running rock-solid!

All the best,
Sebastian

Thanks, that's prolly is the result of *not* having weekly (aka weakly:-) releases

I might have something over this coming weekend, stay tuned

rainforest1155 · May 25, 2005

Nikolai wrote:

Thanks, that's prolly is the result of *not* having weekly (aka weakly:-) releases

I might have something over this coming weekend, stay tuned

But still you managed to get all bugs out of it before leaving for Yosemite.

Nikolai · May 25, 2005

I wish it was true...

rainforest1155 wrote:

But still you managed to get all bugs out of it before leaving for Yosemite.

There is a couple of them still lurking around (though nothing vital or even worth looking for them).

Anyway - good thing is that S*E is getting closer to it's 20K hits anniversary:-)

rainforest1155 · June 1, 2005

typo and possible bug
Hi Nikolai,

I just created a new daily photo album for June and saw the typo on the customization (this very word) message box. No biggie...just wanted to inform you.

When I clicked on yes my browser poped up, but the config-page of the album wasn't loaded. Before I created to other albums in batch for which I opened the config-page by hand.
Can you reproduce this?

Another little thing concerning continuity: You named everything "album", but for the customization page it is named "customize gallery". I guess you copied this directly from SM, because they named everything "gallery".
It might confuse new users. Maybe it's better to change it all to album or gallery.

Nothing big, but I wanted to mention it.

Sebastian

Shima · June 1, 2005

A bug I've noticed is that when I create a new album, it used to show the new album in my list where I made it... now I have to go on get albums for it to appear after I make it. Kind of odd... but yeah, used to show up after I made it, now it doesn't.

S*E: new version 124 uploaded

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