zText

[tintin]

...and can you please test and tell me whether the donate button does work?
thanks,
tintin

[FotoLars]

Hi again, tintin

While moving the mouse arrow over the donate button with "focus follows mouse" activated in the desktop environment (KDE in this very case) as I always have, the donate frame area becomes active and the arrow becomes a hand. If the hand presses the donate button, the entire window closes immediately. If the mouse arrow clicks the Close button, the window disappears right away and the mouse arrow becomes a hand. This hand can't do anything in ASP except minimising/maximising the ASP window. Kill, etc then must be used in order to terminate ASP.

The reset button works as expected.

The logfile will come in a PM!


Cheers,

Lars Nilsson
Lund, Sweden

[maggus]

Hi tin.tin,

just tested zText 2.1.2 ...
same results as FotoLars reports here.

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70594.92: ContainerAsset could not get path by ID
70594.96: Container __CATALOG_ROOT__/assets
70594.98: Container __CATALOG_ROOT__/assets/tmp
70594.101: Container __CATALOG_ROOT__/assets/tmp/_markus_
70594.105: Container __CATALOG_ROOT__/assets/tmp/_markus_/foto
70594.108: Container __CATALOG_ROOT__/assets/tmp/_markus_/foto/ASP-Test
70594.110: set sort order ascending
70594.112: Container __CATALOG_ROOT__/assets/tmp/_markus_/foto/ASP-Test/raw_2
70594.338: viewmode: 1
70594.645: Starting import with settings :  "<x:xmpmeta xmlns:x="adobe:ns:meta/" x:xmptk="XMP Core 4.4.0">
<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
  <rdf:Description rdf:about=""
    xmlns:bibp="http://www.bibblelabs.com/BibblePrivate/5.0/"
   bibp:MoveCopy="2"
   bibp:LibraryLoc=""
   bibp:LibraryID="2041"
   bibp:LibraryUuid="{4efcdfe6-c7df-c045-a4ef-6b60d6cc0306}"
   bibp:Organize="0"
   bibp:FolderTemplate=""
   bibp:Recurse="false"
   bibp:RenameOn="false"
   bibp:FileTemplate=""
   bibp:ImportPath="/tmp/_markus_/foto/ASP-Test/raw_2"
   bibp:KeywordList=""
   bibp:FolderFilter=""
   bibp:QueueName=""
   bibp:QueueType="0"
   bibp:QueueOnlyNewFiles="false"
   bibp:JobName=""
   bibp:PresetList=""/>
</rdf:RDF>
</x:xmpmeta>
"
70594.646: Adding master versions
70594.897: Adding master versions
70594.903: Scanning file  "/tmp/_markus_/foto/ASP-Test/raw_2/IMG_0255.CR2"
70594.914: Scanning file  "/tmp/_markus_/foto/ASP-Test/raw_2/IMG_1367.CR2"
70594.916: Scanning file  "/tmp/_markus_/foto/ASP-Test/raw_2/img_0086.cr2"
70595.550: CAQuest: Hotness Change
70595.550: CAQuest: SettingChanged Event
70595.550: Preset Now
70595.551: ----
70595.665: CAQuest: Settings Change
70595.665: CAQuest: SettingChanged Event
70595.665: Preset Now
70595.665: ----
70595.716: Extracting RAW data:  "/tmp/_markus_/foto/ASP-Test/raw_2/img_0086.cr2"
70595.771: Decoding RAW data:  "/tmp/_markus_/foto/ASP-Test/raw_2/img_0086.cr2"
70601.44: zText about dialog before 'exec'

cheers
Markus

[Hobgoblin]

...and can you please test and tell me whether the donate button does work?
thanks,
tintin

Hi tintin,
Using Mint 11(Ubuntu) clicking on the Donate Button opens Firefox 10.0.2 but does not pass the URL to the browser.
This is a documented problem with Firefox and Linux. You possibly need to include a text for the URL link on the help page as well.

The button does work if the default browser is Chromium.

R.

[afx]

Using Mint 11(Ubuntu) clicking on the Donate Button opens Firefox 10.0.2 but does not pass the URL to the browser.
This is a documented problem with Firefox and Linux.

Really?
Works like a charm on my 11.10 Xubuntu.

cheers
afx

[greerd]

Works fine on my Unity 11.10 too, with zText 2.1.0.

[Zarastro]

Besides the issues with the "about" button which I also have experienced - Fedora 16 64bit here - I'd like to see an option to zText to add embossed texts such as those generated by this ImageMagick code which I run when I convert my pictures for web publication:

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composite -dissolve 50 -gravity southwest ~/fotos/utils/stamp.png


The final result looks like this:



In this example, "composite" combines the image ~/fotos/utils/stamp.png (which contains my text signature, as prepared per IM's instructions - see this link and go to "Using a Mask Image with Fonts" in the end of the page. I don't know if ASP provides the needed routines to do the job, of you'd have to write the code yourself or if you could get a hook from IM's binaries to implement this feature - say, "check for IM's binaries and, if they are present, then use it to do the necessary processing" as per the recipe I've indicated here.

[Hobgoblin]

Using Mint 11(Ubuntu) clicking on the Donate Button opens Firefox 10.0.2 but does not pass the URL to the browser.
This is a documented problem with Firefox and Linux.

Really?
Works like a charm on my 11.10 Xubuntu.

cheers
afx

Nope, Donation Button won't work on my installation.
May be a Mint 11 issue, although the correct settings are in Gconf.
Not an issue on Win XP or Win7 ...

R.

[afx]

I suspect an interaction with the Windowing system.
Could those that have problems switch to something else for a test?
I use XFCE....

cheers
afx

[Hobgoblin]

I suspect an interaction with the Windowing system.
Could those that have problems switch to something else for a test?
I use XFCE....

cheersht
afx

Hi AFX,
Have just experimented with XFCE.
Donate Button links correctly to Firefox, seems you may well be right about Windowing system.

Thanks for the thought,
R.

[dFlyer]

Other than the pop up box saying zFrame instead of zText all the buttons work including the link to the donation button, with Ubuntu 11.10 Unity. No lockups or crashes.

[maggus]

Hi tin.tin,

seems to be a well hidden problem .... did you get in contact with one of the developers of the plugins where the popup does not cause the freeze (ref. HERE) ... maybe they have some idea or can provide their <?> button handling code for comparison ?

I see two major differences in your popup compared to all others:

• your window has no border/title-bar/decorations, just the plain content visible
• all other have only simple multi line text + an icon, your popup looks more like some HTML document ?

Maybe try the following steps:

• enable border/title-bar/etc. for your popup
• skip the <donate> button
• use simple multi line text

best regards
Markus

[ogrizzo]

Besides the issues with the "about" button which I also have experienced - Fedora 16 64bit here - I'd like to see an option to zText to add embossed texts such as those generated by this ImageMagick code which I run when I convert my pictures for web publication

Doesn't the shadow option render text in a very similar way?

[Zarastro]

Besides the issues with the "about" button which I also have experienced - Fedora 16 64bit here - I'd like to see an option to zText to add embossed texts such as those generated by this ImageMagick code which I run when I convert my pictures for web publication

Doesn't the shadow option render text in a very similar way?

No. Here's an example of embossing. The effect I'd like for zImage would be embossing the text, making it transparent and then adding it to an image to make a watermark.

[B4b5]

adding it to an image to make a watermark.

Would SadMan's Texa plugin help?