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[Bitpim-devel] Images and ringtones in CVS version

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

Just so that noone who is working from CVS is surprised:

I am currently upgrading the code that deals with ringtones
and wallpapers.  The ringtone tab contents will appear not
to work.  Don't try and do anything with it.

The wallpaper tab will now read data from multiple locations.
This is needed for the VX6000 which has 3 different locations
for images (Brew, MMS and DRM) as well as the camera, plus of
course the builtin images.

For anyone who has a 6000, do try and read wallpapers and you
should see it reading everything.  Don't try and write yet.

Roger

Re: [Bitpim-devel] Images and ringtones in CVS version

[Steven P. <n9...@n9...>]

On Dec 11, 2003, at 6:45 AM, Roger Binns wrote:
> The wallpaper tab will now read data from multiple locations.
> This is needed for the VX6000 which has 3 different locations
> for images (Brew, MMS and DRM) as well as the camera, plus of
> course the builtin images.

  I notice that the wallpaper images brought in from the phone do not 
get scaled to the thumbnails on the Mac (no other platforms to compare 
with here). However, images I drop into the wallpaper view from the 
computer do get scaled properly to fit the view icon size. Particularly 
annoying are photos snapped using the camera, which are at 640x480 and 
you only see a fragment of the upper corner in the wallpaper view.

  Also, wxMimeTypesManager seems to be broken or at least not fully 
implemented on the Mac. If I double click on an image it simply tells 
me I have no program associated with .jpg, .bmp, etc... I just looked 
through the 2.5.x CVS code tree I have on my system and even in that 
version this module is almost entirely stubbed out. Oh well... :-(

  Maybe we could add an item to the contextual menu there to at least 
allow you to pick an image and save it to some location on the disk. 
That, coupled with the drag-n-drop to add the images would provide at 
least some GUI way for Mac users to pull images out of the wallpaper 
repository, change it, and put it back. Just a thought.

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Re: [Bitpim-devel] Images and ringtones in CVS version

[Roger B. <ro...@ro...>]

>   I notice that the wallpaper images brought in from the phone do not
> get scaled to the thumbnails on the Mac (no other platforms to compare
> with here).

Yup.  I haven't needed to, before the VX6000.  I will add that at some 
point.

> However, images I drop into the wallpaper view from the
> computer do get scaled properly to fit the view icon size. 

More correctly, they get scaled and converted properly for a VX4400.
I will be adding the size and format support to the specific profiles.

> Particularly
> annoying are photos snapped using the camera, which are at 640x480 and
> you only see a fragment of the upper corner in the wallpaper view.

Mine are all murky test shots where I couldn't tell the difference
between the main image and just the corner :-)

>   Also, wxMimeTypesManager seems to be broken or at least not fully
> implemented on the Mac. 

Is there an alternative way of finding out what to call from Python?

>   Maybe we could add an item to the contextual menu there to at least
> allow you to pick an image and save it to some location on the disk.
> That, coupled with the drag-n-drop to add the images would provide at
> least some GUI way for Mac users to pull images out of the wallpaper
> repository, change it, and put it back. Just a thought.

The current code invokes the defined application directly on the
file stored in the BitPim data directory.  That won't work if BitPim
moves to a database, and could cause other issues anyway.

Can you add a feature request for this and the wallpaper sizing
into the tracker on SourceForge so I don't forget about it.

Roger