Comments on: Flickr Screensaver 3.2 http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/ Climbing, Coding, Walking, Talking, Taking Photos and other Stuff Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:36:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Axel Boldt http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-448 Axel Boldt Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:50:30 +0000 http://www.wackylabs.net/wordpress/2005/03/05/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-448 Hi, thanks a lot for this wonderful program. I use it to monitor the group bestshot and I always look forward to the screensaver kicking in! I have a couple minor wishes, if you get the time: * I'd like an option that has the program save a list of all images that it has displayed in an earlier session, and never display those again (unless the group has run out of new pictures of course) * Sometimes if I don't like a pic, I hit space to go to the next one. But that behaves strangely; if I hit space again right away, the next image will be displayed only for a very short time. It somehow gets confused with the timeouts. * If I go to Configure/Pictures, it always defaults back to "Per User", even though I had set it to "Per Group". Anyway, these are all really minor. Thanks again! Hi, thanks a lot for this wonderful program. I use it to monitor the group bestshot and I always look forward to the screensaver kicking in!

I have a couple minor wishes, if you get the time:
* I’d like an option that has the program save a list of all images that it has displayed in an earlier session, and never display those again (unless the group has run out of new pictures of course)
* Sometimes if I don’t like a pic, I hit space to go to the next one. But that behaves strangely; if I hit space again right away, the next image will be displayed only for a very short time. It somehow gets confused with the timeouts.
* If I go to Configure/Pictures, it always defaults back to “Per User”, even though I had set it to “Per Group”.

Anyway, these are all really minor. Thanks again!

]]> By: Sam http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-386 Sam Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:03:03 +0000 http://www.wackylabs.net/wordpress/2005/03/05/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-386 Hi. This does appear to be a problem that I have not managed to reproduce. I am aiming on rewriting the bit of code I'm convinced must be the problem but its taking me more time that I had hoped. An alternative is to use the older version of the screensaver in the meantime. Sam Hi. This does appear to be a problem that I have not managed to reproduce. I am aiming on rewriting the bit of code I’m convinced must be the problem but its taking me more time that I had hoped.

An alternative is to use the older version of the screensaver in the meantime.

Sam

]]> By: Nathan Stanford http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-374 Nathan Stanford Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:52:16 +0000 http://www.wackylabs.net/wordpress/2005/03/05/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-374 I got it working however I installed it on my machine, my father-in-law and my mother-in-law's machine and it keeps running out of threads? Is there a way I can over come this problem... can you fix it where I can put in my own API key to stop this problem? or something? Thanks, Nathan P.S. I love this app as a way to show new pictures to my family and friends. I got it working however I installed it on my machine, my father-in-law and my mother-in-law’s machine and it keeps running out of threads? Is there a way I can over come this problem… can you fix it where I can put in my own API key to stop this problem? or something?

Thanks,
Nathan

P.S. I love this app as a way to show new pictures to my family and friends.

]]> By: Flickr Fan http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-244 Flickr Fan Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:47:42 +0000 http://www.wackylabs.net/wordpress/2005/03/05/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-244 I love this screen saver tool. It's infected my office, everywhere you look you can see people using it.. it's like they don't work just so they can see their pictures. I took the flickrdotnet you wrote and used it to host my photos on my website: <a href="http://photos.ebooger.com" rel="nofollow">Flickr Driven Photo Album</a> WackyLabs rocks I love this screen saver tool. It’s infected my office, everywhere you look you can see people using it.. it’s like they don’t work just so they can see their pictures.

I took the flickrdotnet you wrote and used it to host my photos on my website:
Flickr Driven Photo Album

WackyLabs rocks

]]> By: Sam http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-182 Sam Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:18:44 +0000 http://www.wackylabs.net/wordpress/2005/03/05/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-182 If its you're Yahoo email address and password it wont work - I need to update it to work with the new authentication methods. It will still display your public photos without a email address and password in the mean time however. Hope that helps. If its you’re Yahoo email address and password it wont work - I need to update it to work with the new authentication methods. It will still display your public photos without a email address and password in the mean time however.

Hope that helps.

]]> By: Chris http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-181 Chris Fri, 09 Sep 2005 17:32:35 +0000 http://www.wackylabs.net/wordpress/2005/03/05/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-181 I downloaded the latest version and when I try to enter my Flickr (Yahoo) email address and password, I get an error indicating the the email address and password are incorrect. However if I log into Flickr the address and password work. Any suggestions? I downloaded the latest version and when I try to enter my Flickr (Yahoo) email address and password, I get an error indicating the the email address and password are incorrect. However if I log into Flickr the address and password work.

Any suggestions?

]]> By: Thom http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-180 Thom Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:11:31 +0000 http://www.wackylabs.net/wordpress/2005/03/05/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-180 Might be an idea to preload images, then hold on an image if the buffer is empty, so the first image will be there for a bit while the buffer fills up. I've done some effects in .net using png files to overlay a polaroid style border with shadows and nice blended edges etc. You could also do simple fades by stacking the images on the form and changing the alpha with a timer event. Another option would be to use flash, but feeding images to flash can be a pain, it will only load none progressive jpegs, but if you can get that working other people could create SWFs that act as transition 'plugins'. You could reprocess the images for flash and dump them onto the disk, then just call a function through the flash api to get it to load the next image. Might be an idea to preload images, then hold on an image if the buffer is empty, so the first image will be there for a bit while the buffer fills up. I’ve done some effects in .net using png files to overlay a polaroid style border with shadows and nice blended edges etc. You could also do simple fades by stacking the images on the form and changing the alpha with a timer event.

Another option would be to use flash, but feeding images to flash can be a pain, it will only load none progressive jpegs, but if you can get that working other people could create SWFs that act as transition ‘plugins’. You could reprocess the images for flash and dump them onto the disk, then just call a function through the flash api to get it to load the next image.

]]> By: Sam http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-179 Sam Thu, 08 Sep 2005 11:14:48 +0000 http://www.wackylabs.net/wordpress/2005/03/05/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-179 Hi Thom. Yeah, resampling the images is the easy part, its just getting round to the time to do all this stuff. I think I am changing the delay to 15 second intervals. Any quicker and it just gets silly (it takes longer to download and display the image than it does to switch to the next image). I'm also planning a few experimental 'display' preferences, such as a polaroid view. I tried some transition stuff but the .Net framework isn't great for that (anyone have any hints let me know). Sam Hi Thom. Yeah, resampling the images is the easy part, its just getting round to the time to do all this stuff.

I think I am changing the delay to 15 second intervals. Any quicker and it just gets silly (it takes longer to download and display the image than it does to switch to the next image).

I’m also planning a few experimental ‘display’ preferences, such as a polaroid view. I tried some transition stuff but the .Net framework isn’t great for that (anyone have any hints let me know).

Sam

]]> By: Thom http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-178 Thom Thu, 08 Sep 2005 10:24:25 +0000 http://www.wackylabs.net/wordpress/2005/03/05/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-178 Hi Sam, how about seconds instead of minutes? As for scaling, if you draw the image onto a graphics object (Graphics.DrawImage(Image, Single, Single, Single, Single)), you can choose the interpolation mode and get a much cleaner looking image than just resizing the bitmap or image object. See this http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/imageresize.asp Hi Sam, how about seconds instead of minutes? As for scaling, if you draw the image onto a graphics object (Graphics.DrawImage(Image, Single, Single, Single, Single)), you can choose the interpolation mode and get a much cleaner looking image than just resizing the bitmap or image object. See this http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/imageresize.asp

]]> By: huphtur http://www.wackylabs.net/2005/03/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-104 huphtur Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.wackylabs.net/wordpress/2005/03/05/flickr-screensaver-32/#comment-104 first time installing v3.2, does NOT work on my XP laptop. Cant even get into ther setings. first time installing v3.2, does NOT work on my XP laptop. Cant even get into ther setings.

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