Data & Image Generator for Slide.Show

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New Post: Update for Silverlight 4?

chriskno — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:35:41 GMT

This looks awesome! Will it work with Silverlight 4?

New Post: grab image from xaml control link

pepepaco — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:16 GMT

I'd like a feature to add images from xaml controls or external silverlight applications,

then update that images in a daily basis...

this way Slide show could be a very useful dashboard representing historical data from wecharts...

also if the slideshow instead of using a path to an img file, take the url for the silverlight application (or path to xaml) and show it in the slideshow that would be awesome..

to generate a image from xaml control I found this example..

http://joel.neubeck.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/NavigationTransition/#/p1

regards!

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Commented Issue: Not able to use the application

azzurij — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:12:59 GMT

Hi
I tried to use your app on my Windows XP machine. No luck. All I get is the loaded application with the 4 buttons on the top. When I click on the buttons, I can select the Album direcotry and output directory. I am not able to see the images the way you show them on your screenshot.

I do have .Net 3.5 installed on my comp.

Any ideas why this would happen?
Comments: ** Comment from web user: azzurij **

I have the same issue. I previously used the generator successfully, but it errors now after selecting a source directory. Error appears to be related to FileIO Error in ssgenerator.cs when attempting to delete temp files from the TEMPDIR. Error is "system.unauthorizedaccessexception access to the <TEMPDIR\photo> is denied...I am also running .net35. Tried setting the build level to 2.0, but that didn't work.

New Post: Define Terms

rjonesrb — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:02:25 GMT

I am having a difficult time getting the Generator to work. When I select an Album Director is this the folder containing the photo I am putting in the slide show. It would help me if I could get a definition or explanation for each button.

Created Issue: Not able to use the application

Vamsi — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:32:38 GMT

NEW POST: New Feature Requests

richlatham — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:23:17 GMT

It's a great piece of software - thanks.

Enhancements that I would find useful are:

1) Have an option to set resolution and size as suggested above in 6).
2) Option to specify a different folder for output of thumbnails.
3) Option to rename files on output, eg. user specified prefix plus sequence number. This would enable simple unique names to be used.

CREATED ISSUE: Data.xml image and thumbnail point at wrong relative folder.

BizTron — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:50:34 GMT

When I open the Data.xml file after creation, when I select the folder "/slideshow/Images" as output, it records "Images" as the root folder. I need to change this to the absolute url or "/slideshow/Images" so the images are found. This is integrated with BlogEngine.net so my issue may be more complex but I believe a change is needed for clean operation.

NEW POST: New Feature Requests

BizTron — Fri, 16 May 2008 01:43:44 GMT

What about using Visual Studio 2008 Express? Shouldn't this allow anyone to open and edit the source?

I like most of these suggestions as well. I hope I can offer some suggestions and solutions of my own.

Thanks for the project...it beats copy-n-paste in notepad or VS.

NEW POST: New Feature Requests

jrblack10 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:59:41 GMT

JRCSystems, as far as I know it is due to the project using .NET 3.5 and SilverLight and these are not suppored with VS2005. Looking forward to making changes my self once I get VS2008 and install it. You have some great ideas I did not think of.

NEW POST: Feature request and THANKS

jrblack10 — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:54:49 GMT

WOW... what can I say, what a sweet tool for the Slide.Show project. It works clean and fast (for me on XP).

A feature request or two:
1) A Check All and Uncheck All button to include or exclude all pictures from a specific album.
2) Configuration option to set the size of thumbnail images and size of full size image.
3) Option or button to set the all titles and/or descriptions equal to first slide title and/or description. Why? As a photographer or a site hosting other photographers work, it would be nice to easily set say all the titles to "Photographed by John Smith", so I would not have to enter it in 50 times.

I have downloaded the source, but do not yet have VS2008 installed, so not sure when I can get to adding these changes my self. Thanks again so much for sharing this.

NEW POST: Using metatag data

ccarcel — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:22:47 GMT

Take that back, you have and it works

ccarcel wrote:
I was writing my own little app to do this, I am not a full time programer put I got it working in couple of nights I included a vb project that reads the metatag data. I got it working with most tags exept for the two importamt ones like title and description, have you thought about doing this??

Kind Regards

NEW POST: Using metatag data

ccarcel — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:06:05 GMT

I was writing my own little app to do this, I am not a full time programer put I got it working in couple of nights I included a vb project that reads the metatag data. I got it working with most tags exept for the two importamt ones like title and description, have you thought about doing this??

Kind Regards

Source code checked in

seangordon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:05:52 GMT

Minor Update to fix problem if program starts without the config file existing

Source code checked in

seangordon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:28:41 GMT

Added Example XML Config File

Source code checked in

seangordon — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:23:40 GMT

Updates : Added options dialog (set Max Tumbnail Size & Temp Dir). Changed UI to show input and output dirs (more intuitive use for new users)

NEW POST: Can't select a single folder

tbarnecut — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 04:44:56 GMT

Why can't you just select a single folder to create an album?

NEW POST: New Feature Requests

JRCSystems — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:40:10 GMT

I've got a few requests that will make this program a lot easier to use.

1. Have little check-marks next to each button appear AFTER you've completed that step.
why? when you've got huge albums, you kind of lose track of what step you're at.
2. Have a default "author/photographer" name, so it can fill in the name for all photos.
3. Have an option to set date taken to date of file.
why not? it seems some files have date/taken from the camera? (not sure). if that doesn't exist, use file date/time.
4. Have an option to set description to name of file.
why? when making a slideshow for someone else (consulting/etc), and they give you 1000s of pics,
if it filled in the picture filename, its a lot easier for them to say keep hp20202.jpg, get rid of hp30303.jpg.
with no names filled in by default, its impossible.
5. When you click an Album, auto-click all photos inside the album... saves a LOT of time.
6. Give an option for what resolution to scale pictures to.
It does seem to do a good job making the _s and _t pictures. Many of the pictures seem grainy.
Maybe have different options High/Med/Low res, based on intended audience, CABLE/DSL/Dial-up.

7. I believe someone else already mentioned this, but I think this would make the program so much more powerful...
The ability to read in the settings from a previously made slideshow, and edit it.
If a person does an "Oops" and has to start over, that it kind of lame.

I think this program is off to a great start !!

Oh... I did have 1 question: What feature(s) did you make use of in vs2008 that aren't in vs2005??
I'd love to play with the source, and make some of those above requests myself, but I can't load it in vs2005.

Keep up the good work !!