PyAlbum History & Plans
This page describes the development progress and history of PyAlbum and the future
plans.
1. History
Version 0.5.3 - 02 May 2004
| Misc |
- Some bug fixes
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- Activated CVS for project on SourceForge.
- PicTitleMethod FNE did not work as documented.
- PyAlbum now raises an error if command line arguments given instead
of options only.
- descript.ion files: only the first line was processed.
- Documentation for case sensitivity of user options corrected.
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| Options |
- FolderTitleMethod:
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New choice (and default!) ONR: original name of directory
- PicTitleMethod
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New choice (and default!) ONR: original filename without extension
New choice ONE: original filename with extension
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| Properties |
- no changes
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| Filters |
- no changes
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| Templates |
- Almost all
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Corrected comment about case sensitivity of user options in template.cfg
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Version 0.5.2 - 12 Apr 2004
| Misc |
- No updates this week
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- PyAlbum is being redesigned to read settings and image info from XML files. The old
method (.cfg files) will still be supported in the future.
- I am learning wxPython, wxGlade and XML Schema (xsd) while designing the GUI.
- This may take 2 to 4 weeks until the first beta release...
- Documented TimeFormat and DateFormat codes.
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Version 0.5.2 - 04 Apr 2004
| Misc |
- Some bug fixes
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- Removed trailing blanks from camera model (Olympus!) to find it in FocalFactors.txt
- Local files URI: "file://" instead of "file:"
- Color #rgb was not converted properly
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| Options |
- no changes
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| Properties |
- no changes
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| Filters |
- New: MaskFilter
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see filters page
- New: FrameFilter
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see filters page
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| Templates |
- Mod: BP2
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Better handling of description[] array. Layout for sub albums modified.
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Version 0.5.1 - 28 Mar 2004
| Misc |
- TimeFormat
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am/pm time format was wrong in all *.cfg files "%I:%M" instead of "%H:%I"
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| Options |
- New: TFilter
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Behaves like Filter, but usable only from templates. To allow for 2
independent filter chains.
- Mod: general
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Allow single or double quotes in filter parameters, so it is possible to use
them from the command line. Escape character is "\".
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| Properties |
- no changes
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| Filters |
- Mod: LogoFilter
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Converts mode 'P' and 'L' pictures to intermediate jpg now. (Otherwise
the logos look very ugly!)
New ways to define logo path: &P (relative to program path) or &T
(relative to effective template directory).
Default logo: '&P/libtest/logonew.gif'
- Mod: WatermarkFilter
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Converts mode 'P' and 'L' pictures to intermediate jpg now.
Bug in calculating transparency mask corrected.
- New: RotatedWatermarkFilter
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Paints transparent, rotated text onto the picture. Only useful in center, center
position!
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| Templates |
- BluPro:
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new colors, Filters in template
- BP2:
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slideshow added (via URI parameters, no cookies used)
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Version 0.5.0 - 21 Mar 2004
| Misc |
- New feature: filters
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Support for configurable image filters (kind of API).
Filters can be applied to thumbnails and lowres pictures,
before and after resizing. Filters are extendable by users.
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| Options |
- New: FilterDir
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Path to the directory, where the filter modules are located.
Default: <programdir>/filters
- New: FontDir
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Path to the directory, where the PIL fonts are located.
Default: <programdir>/fonts
- new: Filter
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Cumulative option to declare filters and its parameters. See filters page.
- Mod: color values
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All color values can now be given as #rrggbb or #rgb or 'r,g,b' or one
of the 16(!) named W3C colors.
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| Properties |
- No changes
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| Filters |
- New feature
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The following filters are provided: TextFilter, ShadowTextFilter,
WatermarkFilter, LogoFilter, BWFilter, BorderFilter, BlurFilter,
ContourFilter, DetailFilter, EdgeEnhanceFilter, EdgeEnhanceMoreFilter,
EmbossFilter, FindEdgesFilter, SharpenFilterm, SmoothFilter,
SmoothMoreFilter
Most of them are simple calls to PIL functions.
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| Templates |
- Mod: BP2
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Generated an empty table, if an album had only sub albums but
no pictures.
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Version 0.4.5 - 14 Mar 2004
| Misc |
- Minor corrections
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Enhanced handling of GIF, TIFF, TGA, PNG pictures.
Corrected minor bug on album and picture counting.
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| Options |
- Mod: ExtMovie + ExtSound
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Both are now allowed in "album".
- Mod: -v
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Sets verbosity to 2 (shortcut for
--verbosity=2)
- new: Verbosity
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Defines the amount of console output.
Valid values are 0 to 5, default is 1
0: errors, 1: warnings, 2: directory processing,
3: picture processing, 4: output file processing,
5: deeper information of directories at end
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| Properties |
- New: gal.parts
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List of all parts (means: index files) in the gal object,
useful for select boxes.
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| Templates |
- Mod: BP2
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Several enhancements, selection boxes for navigation,
XHTML 1.0 conform now, CSS cleanup.
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Version 0.4.4 - 7 Mar 2004
| Misc |
- Some changes
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New EXIF module, better EXIF handling.
Create Gallery/Album thumbnails with %d pictures, %d albums
Documentation on option fullcopy extended.
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| Options |
- Mod: ThumbGalleryTexts
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Changed default value to:
"1 Subalbum","%d Subalbums", "1 Picture", "%d Pictures"
- New: ReadExif
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Single choice: none, normal(default), full
- New: DefaultFocalFactor
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If a factor can not be found in FocalFactors.txt, this value is used
to calculate the 35mm equivalent: Default is "0.0", which means:
return error text.
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| Properties |
- New: pic.exiflist
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Sorted list of tuples (name, value) with ALL attributes shorter than 100
characters.
- Mod: pic.exif.FNumber
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Now calculated from ApertureValue, if empty.
- Mod: pic.exif.ExposureTime
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Now calculated from ShutterSpeedValue, if empty.
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| Templates |
- Mod: BluPro
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Has no full pictures, links now from pic.html to pic directly.
- Mod: testall
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extended for new pic.exif.exiflist
- Mod: BP2
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Much better :-) not yet ready.
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Version 0.4.3 - 29 Feb 2004
| Misc |
- Some enhancements
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Changed progURL to "http://pyalbum.sourceforge.net/"
Movies and sounds finally supported :-)
Documentation extended
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| Options |
- New: ExtPicture
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Define file extensions for pictures.
- New: ExtMovie
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Define file extensions for movie files.
- New: ExtSound
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Define file extensions for sound files.
- New: useMovie
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Look for movies files belonging to a picture?
- useSound
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Look for sound files belonging to a picture?
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| Properties |
- New: 10 for movies and sound
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pic.[movie|sound][Basename|Ext|FileName|FileSize|Href]
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| Templates |
- Mod: testall
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Extended with all new properties.
- Mod: BP, BluPro, BilderGalerie, thumbframe
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Code cleanup
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Version 0.4.2 - 22 Feb 2004
| Misc |
- Some changes
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Changed filename 'pygal.cfg' to 'pyalbum.cfg'.
Copying of write protected files now possible.
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| Options |
- Mod concept
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Plan to allow multilingual texts dropped. Instead use
@user.textXX in templates. This gives the same result.
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| Properties |
- No changes
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| Templates |
- Mod: Bildergalerie
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Now create style sheet with user options, uses user options for static texts.
- Mod: BP
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Static texts by user.textXXX
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Version 0.4.1 - 15 Feb 2004
| Misc |
- New features: includes
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Up to 6 include files me be put into nay album input directory:
[once|index|picture][header|footer].inc
This is useable by templates, normally as child of the "body" tag.
If such file (eg. "indexheader.inc" exists in any input directory, the
template may use:
@[if gal.indexFooterInc]@{empy.include(gal.indexFooterInc)}@[end if]@
Such include files may contain (almost) any HTML code.
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| Options |
- New: RebuildOut
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Rebuild all output files (except pictures).
Set it to True to bypass optimization (eg. changed FocalFactors.txt)
Default: False
- New: RootParent
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Parent of topmost album. May be set empty. Default: index.html
- Mod: ThumbRatio
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May be set to 0.0 now to force panoramaWidth to 1, always generate
very low thumbnails.
- Mod: userxx
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Now user.xx (@user.xx)
May be set from album files
May be defined before declaration (template switch possible with new
definitions in same file)
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| Properties |
- Many new attributes
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gal.templateName (same as option TemplateName)
gal.maxThumbWidth (useful for frame sizing)
gal.maxThumbHeight
gal.maxLowresWidth
gal.maxLowresHeight
gal.onceHeaderInc: empty or path to onceheader.inc file
gal.onceFooterInc: empty or path to oncefooter.inc file
gal.indexHeaderInc: empty or path to indexheader.inc file
gal.indexFooterInc: empty or path to indexfooter.inc file
gal.pictureHeaderInc: empty or path to pictureheader.inc file
gal.pictureFooterInc: empty or path to picturefooter.inc file
pic.outBaseName (now always set despite of full/lowres/thumb generation)
([full|lowres|thumb]BaseName are converted with [Full|Lowres|Thumb]OutName, ...)
and only available if full/lowres/thumb is generated!)
pic.fileTime: Date/Time of original picture file. Formatted acording to
options DateFormat<space>TimeFormat
user as new object (@user.author, ...)
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| Templates |
- Mod: BluPro
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Cleaned up, subalbums nicer.
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2. Plans
This is an extraction of my todo:
- more options on subalbum images!
- create from given picture with texts
- given picture: fixed (new option!)
x texts: better than now!!!
- none (means: use a res/picture, or no picture)
- select one picture from inputdir (meta.properties: foldericon=)
- only useful with text or special praphics
- documentation on:
- general empy syntax
- cleanup all templates
- complete checkOptions()
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Plans for the GUI (summer 2004):
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- View pictures
- set/edit options
- Rotate pictures
- automatically: read exif.orientation (some cameras exist!)
- manually
- Annotate pictures (hold info in one file?)
- comment/title
- description
- group/category
- keywords
- author
That could mean: group pictures in output other than the input hierarchy.
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