On Wednesday 01 December 2004 17:53, Ben Francis wrote:
I work at a community college with a public art gallery on site and we're trying to keep an archive of all the pieces of artwork displayed in our exhibitons on a web site.
What I really had in mind was a program which will automatically generate a web page with a gallery of thumbnails, which when clicked on take you to the full sized picture. It would need support for a title and a caption on each picture and would be used for batches of between 30 and 100 jpegs at a time.
Wouldn't be difficult to add a link to each picture. The program actually outputs a set of 640x480 (or whatever size you specify) JPEGs, plus an HTML/JavaScript file to run them as a slideshow. The latter can be edited as you please; if you come up with a useful enhancement I'll look seriously at adding it as an option.
Does the "photo organiser" include thumbnails? Is this a web interface or a GUI interface on the operating system?
The program runs on your computer, not off a server. Like other photo programs it creates a set of thumbnail (160x120) images for the files it finds, and uses these for speed in the main user interface. Unlike many other programs it also provides a means to categorize every picture; this is an area due for a significant enhancement so in a future version you'll be able to categorize a picture of Marge on holiday as being in the category holiday/2001/Blackpool and also people/Marge/Blackpool and any other suitable categories. All this should make it very easy to find "All holiday pictures featuring Marge".
What does an HTML slide show look like? Do you have a demo?
I'll try to set one up at the weekend. Bit busy right now; a shiny new Zaurus C860 popped through the door today and is demanding all my attention ;)
Not much information here, do you have any screenshots?
I'll make running the progam itself into a slideshow when I get the time. Give few a few days.
I'm not a Java Developer. What do I do with a .jnlp file?
Type this at a command prompt:
javaws http://www.eclecity.net/mediacity.jnlp
If it doesn't work you probably don't have javaws on your path. This is part of the Java distribution; the simplest thing is to symlink to it. And maybe to java too; difficult for me to say as my systems are already set up.
Java Webstart (javaws) is a mechanism invented by Sun for running applications with as little effort as running an applet, except with full local permissions rather than in a sandbox. It downloads and installs the target (jnlp) file, then before running each time checks to see if there's a newer version available. If so, it copies it over the old one and runs it. For example, I uploaded a new version this evening, fixing a couple of bugs and adding some new features.
-- GT