All the whores and politicians will look up and shout "Sort us!"...

Posted by PY on May 17, 2011, 10:03 a.m.

…and I'll look down and whisper "Yes."

I think that's how the quote goes, anyway. So, I've built an image sorter and could do with some people to test it, so anybody with some images they can sort and some time to waste can feel free to give it a shot. Design criticism more than welcome, my UI design isn't top-notch, error reports appreciated.

The basic idea is that most image sorters have a fatal flaw: You're required to use the image sorter in order to quickly find an image, and damn near every single piece of software ever written cannot integrate with that, making actually using your images irritating at best. Does a man not deserve his images? No, says Picasa, they belong to Google. No, says iPhoto, they belong to Apple. No, says Windows, they belong to everyone. I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose… to create a gigantic directory of every possible valid permutation of all valid tags (Valid is 'has more than X images with this tag' where X is user configurable) and then symlinked every appropriate picture into every last folder. This does, unfortunately, mean two things: It requires a modern version of windows, and it requires administrator access. Though do try it if you're still running XP, because I'd be interested to know whether it actually runs or not.

In any case, bug reports welcome and appreciated, as well as UI criticism.

edit: Oh, and for instructions: First go to preferences and add a new folder, after that it should be self explanatory. If it's not self explanatory, tell me, because my UI isn't good enough.

Comments

PY 12 years, 11 months ago

I know nobody cares, but I spent time writing the damn readme so **somebody**'s going to read it. Also it's on github now.

https://github.com/Phoshi/Twilight-Sortle

blackhole 12 years, 11 months ago

You want bicubic interpolation.

F1ak3r 12 years, 11 months ago

Glad to see a new version of this - I started using the old version to sort through my massive wallpapers folder. Now I will have to redo all the tags I've done those far. Oh well.

Whenever I start it up I get an error message about "input string not in the correct format". But I can skip the message, and the program seems to work just fine afterwards.

Also, Twilight's not really good at finding stuff in her library. She always has to get Spike or Pinkie Pie to do it. =P

PY 12 years, 11 months ago

@blackhole; Given that I'm manually resizing the images to avoid it, I apparently don't :P

I don't mind much either way, but kilin requested it - perhaps I should add an option somewhere.

@F1ak3r; That's interesting, I'm not sure where that could be coming from. Would you mind popping into IRC and giving me a beep at some point?

(oh, and I don't /think/ you should have to redo all of your tags, the format hasn't changed, though most of the other save data has, but it shouldn't have invalidated that I don't think. Think)

Alert Games 12 years, 10 months ago

I need to install my .NET framework.