TKAlbum Changelog

Version 2.0 (Dec-04)

• Adapted to new output of album version (>= 3.0)
  • Have changed to I/O convention of new version
  • Check for presence of .album.conf in home directory. If it is not there, the programm resommends to start album manually once.
  • Filter out "Remove unused" messages so that they do not show up as error messages
• Added "-no_save_conf" because saving the configuration does not make sense when using TKAlbum. Well, one could store the setting in the album directory and load from there ... but this is a larger change.
• Added "-add" for all local calls that are not done in the root directory. This is safe and does the intended thing.
• Added a new album option field called "Free option string". This can be used for all the new options which have not been integrated into TKAlbum yet.

Version 1.02b (13-Apr-03)

• There were two incompatabilities with Tcl/Tk 8.3 (pointed out by Carsten Bartels)
• The Sort functions did not work (also pointed out by Carsten Bartels)

Version 1.02 (8-Apr-03)

• The optional fconvert script screwed up on pictures with pathnames containing blanks.
• Sometimes, an "internal error" was reported, which was a minor glitch only.
• Renaming files and directories did not work any longer since 1.0.
• The foreground color for the message fields is changed to black again. Under Tcl/Tk 8.4 it became a light grey making it very hard to read.
• The external viewer function has been changed: Now the list of selected files or, if no item is selected, all files in a album, are given to the viewer program allowing for a slide show
• The external viewer options have been simplifies and xzgv is now the default choice for the viewer.
• New option: Always copy captions - copies the picture captions (perhaps generating a new caption files) even if the destination is not inside the album
• New operation: Album upload - copies all files necessary for an upload to a specified directory
• Adapted to album version 2.45

Version 1.01c (31-Jan-03)

• Determining the host name could break tkalbum and leave stale lock files (-- thanks to Jeff Jordan for pointing this out)
• Switched image_sizes on by default since it is necessary for a few themes.
• The directory naming convention has been adapted to the new album rules. Now you can have an entry ". :: name" in the caption.txt file (this requires album 2.43). Note, however, that the name can only be set in the super album.
• The new album options theme_url and just_medium have been integrated (one also needs new versions of the theme files and of album (Version 2.44))

Version 1.0 (21-Jan-03)

• Documentation converted to HTML
• Installation simplified: Now there exist RPMs for TKAlbum, album and jhead.

Version 0.10 (14-Jan-03)

• On a shared file system, lock files might have been considered as stale, although they were simply belonging to a process on another host
• Directory and file names with blanks in it caused trouble (this was a bug introduced in 0.9)
• The number of internally cached images can now be controlled using the View option Internal cache size. The default is 100, corresponding to 75-100 MB of main memory.
• There is now the possibility of caching the previews externally, which makes previewing much faster. The maximum size for each picture is 0.5 MB. Therefore it is safe to set the maximum number of cached preview files to 400 (<200 MB).
• Tighter control of the trash bin. Now the number of images and albums in the trash bin is monitored and always adjusted to meet the maximum.
• When a directory is selected, the file size field shows the number of images and albums in this directory
• New albums are created as the last entry and not as the first
• New options:
  • under View options: Show hidden directories (default on)
  • New File Option: Warning before multiple deletions. If this option is enabled while the option Warning before each deletion is disabled, then deletion warnings are only given if more than one object is going to be deleted
  • New File option: Warning when addressing an internal directory. If this option is enabled, a warning is given when one attempts to move a file to or opens one of the internal directories that are used to save pictures or to cache thumbnails.

Version 0.9 (21-Dec-02)

• The caption of the first image loaded after doing directory operations was not read from the caption file.
• Better treatment of filenames starting with dashes. They can now be copied, deleted, renamed and previewed. It is now also possible to ignore such files by setting a switch.
• When downloading from the camera is aborted, the directory was not rescanned.

Version 0.8 (02-Dec-02)

• Under SuSE 8.1, there was a problem with Tcl/TK. Thanks to Ralf Ziomkowski TKAlbum now works under SuSE 8.1
• You can now start a browser to preview an HTML page

Version 0.7 (14-Oct-02)

• Group permissions and ownership for captions.txt in sub-directories are now set correctly. Affects only shared albums.
• There was an error message when copy & converting single images (which was harmless, though)
• There was an error message about an undefined command InstallationCheck when activating the Install Check option.
• You could not disable the Install Check, now you can.
• You could not generate strictly locally if there was no sub-dir
• For preview size 500 and bottom cropping, we could get a range error
• When trying to delete files in the empty camera directory, the camera was not unmounted
• When moving entries up or down, the picture names were messed up (oops, that was serious)
• Basic locking mechanism to prohibit 2 programs and/or users working simultaneously on the same profile and/or root album

Version 0.6b (02-Oct-02)

• Corrected an internal error when using old style captions.txt (w/o renameable albums). Hope that the renaming stuff works now without further hassles.

Version 0.6a (02-Oct-02)

• Disabling the Show directory option now really removes the directories from the listing
• Found out how to give an album name to the current dir. Just use the directory name (not ".") in captions.txt. So, now also the local page gets the correct album name
• After NewAlbum, the directory is rescanned if we stay in the same directory
• If no profile is selected, we won't try to write the current profile (avoiding an error message)
• Added a new option to display album names in dir listing, so now the album name (instead of the directory name) can be listed

Version 0.6 (01-Oct-02)

• More reasonable error messages when component programs have not been installed
• Misunderstanding corrected: Cleanup in album is not an additional process but an option to the generation. This means that we added an appropriate action and integrate the global option value into the album call.
• Installation check: Check whether all component programs are there, whether the versions are right, and whether the temp directory is writable; the test can be terminated early and it can be disabled in the general option dialog
• Directories (other than ".", "..", and hidden directories) can now be named.
• It is now possible to have more than one profile (and root album), to generate and load new profiles, and to switch between profiles. If one wants to get rid of a profile, this has to be done externally, though. This feature makes shared album maintenance easier as well because one can now also share profiles.
• Now one is asked whether one wants to edit a file before it is copied and converted. This is done only if a single file is selected and only if the option Edit before "Copy & Convert" is enabled

Version 0.5 (26-Sep-02)

• Alt-O (for open directory) was accidentally deleted in an earlier version. Now you can again open an album with Alt-O.
• After changes to the Album options Only process known images types and Do not hide dirs with ".", the directory needs a rescan (because that also affects what is displayed)
• In order to avoid filenames starting with a dash, the MakeFreshName procedure was modified. File names starting with dash still cause trouble!
• Component licenses added in Help menu
• Now the cursor changes to the busy cursor even above text fields
• Made sure that "." and ".." do not get copied or moved
• Made sure that directories are not copied & converted
• Symlink warning integrated: If one changes into a directory or generates a new one, we check now whether this has been done following a symlink. In this case, a warning is given. As usual, there is a switch to disable the warning.
• Symlink directories are now marked with [S] in the directory listing
• Thumbnail directories are marked with [T], provided they are displayed
• One can now type relative paths in the choose directory box (even containing "." and "..")
• New option concerning thumbnail preview added: Adapt aspect ratio of EXIF thumbnails. If this option is selected, the aspect ration of the EXIF thumbnails is adapted to the image aspect ration. Some cameras (as my Ricoh RR120) seem to need this. Other cameras, such as the Sony Cybershot, use black stripes in their thumbnails if the image ratio deviates from the 4:3 ratio of the EXIF thumbnails.
• New actions in Album menu: hide/unhide current album
• non-images are now explicitly noticed and marked by a frown symbol in the preview area
• when the album script encounters an error (marked by [album]), this will be reported to the user
• Manual page added, which also can be viewed in TKAlbum
• New command: UpAlbum (Meta-u), goes one album up
• When moving one album up (regardless how), the current directory becomes the selected entry in the new directory
• Change of album regeneration strategy:
• Now the preview shows how the thumbnail cropping affects the picture (of course, it is an option)
• new mode: strictly local that affects only the directory itself and no sub-directories (we use .no_album marker to block regeneration of sub-albums)
• in local mode, we do not search for the next higher album, but always start generation in the current one
• since I disable the cleanup by default, I will add an action for cleanup

Version 0.4a (23-Sep-02)

• Just a few changes to the README file, inclusion of new album version and of the album license & cleaned up jhead directory (removed *.o)

Version 0.4 (21-Sep-02)

• Thumbnail previews are now scaled to the preview size
• A number of things have been added to make the script usable for other people

Version 0.3 (20-Sep-02)

• All menu commands and options implemented.

Version 0.2 (13-Sep-02)

• Rename, Move, Copy, Copy & Convert, Clear Copy Marks, Delete, and Undelete in File menu implemented.
• All Jpeginfo menu entries implemented

Version 0.1 (09-Sep-02)