[Bins] Buglet: Regeneration of album images when XML file changed
Matthias Hanisch
mjh at vr-web.de
Tue Apr 29 00:39:05 BST 2003
Hi!
Last weekend I gave BINS a try. It looks very promising and simple to use, if
you managed to install it (I had some problems with some combination of perl
modules :). The results are neat, it does exactly what I want, I really like
it.
I just wanted to let you know about a slight problem with the regeneration of
the album images.
For better explanantion, I would like to describe the steps to face this
behavior:
1. Generate the album as usual with bins <srcdir> <albumdir>
2. After looking at the album, discover, that one image has to be rotated.
3. Call bins-edit-gui on the image, rotate left and save.
4. Regenerate the album, the image is not generated again, and stays with the
wrong orientation.
I'm not a Perl programmer at all, but after some quick look on the code, I
would suggest to introduce an additional test in subfunction
writeScaledVersion(), something like:
"If the corresponding XML file is newer than the generated album image, then
do a regeneration, too, because it could contain orientation changes."
I also implemented a fix, it works, but is too ugly to publish (see above for
the reason :). The additional if condition is straightforward. Neverless, I
can make it available on request. You have been warned.
As I said, I use BINS since yesterday, so if I overlooked something, I
apologize.
Regards,
Matze
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