Try out this application I wrote (image viewer/editor)

[notfred]

OK, so I'm making a version 0.01alpha of PNG Viewer/Editor Phosphor available to the public
Link to the program

It's by no means anywhere near done yet, but it's finally starting to be useable, at least for testing. At this point in time, none of the editoing features have been implemented yet.

It works w/ PNG images. If you don't have any PNG images, I converted some of my photos to PNG format, and put them here on my website so that you can downlaod them to try out w/ Phosphor.

It requires that you have the Java virtual machine installed. If you dont, you can download it from Sun.

It's highly incomplete, and expect to find lots of bugs in it, and missing features, but it works.
Notable exception: It doesn't properly decode interlaced PNG images yet.
Also, it's slow, ugly, and generally awkward, but that will improve w/ time.


And yes, 9KB is the correct file size, I didn't get disconnected while uploading or anything.

Please at least try it, tell me what you think, I put a lot of work into the decoder...

 

[Phuz]

I'll try it when I get home...

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Phuz
I'll try it when I get home...

You work nights?

 

[wizzz]

Just tried it.
A little slow but gets the job done.

BTW, why are you making a photo editor in java?

Also, what is the "META-INF" folder?

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: wizzz
Just tried it.
A little slow but gets the job done.

BTW, why are you making a photo editor in java?

Also, what is the "META-INF" folder?

It's not so much a Photo Editor, as a metadata editor for setting all the embedded stuff like photographer, camera settings, caption, etc.

META-INF is where the manfest file in the jar is.

It should get faster when I get to optimizing it.

 

[wizzz]

So the manifest file is created when you use a java archive in your classpath to compile the code?

Or am I misunderstanding it?


First time seeing a META_INF folder with a manifest file...

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: wizzz
So the manifest file is created when you use a java archive in your classpath to compile the code?

Or am I misunderstanding it?


First time seeing a META_INF folder with a manifest file...

I have no idea why jar puts the manifest file in META_INF, but that's where it goes, at least w/ my version of jar.

 

[manly]

The jar utility automatically creates the META-INF directory; that is standard behavior.

 

[manly]

In the absence of any zoom settings, you probably want to put the image into a JScrollPane.

 

[Phuz]

Yeah, I work nights. 7pm-3:30am, and I'm usually up until 8am.

I wake up just before my drive to work, 6pm, drive is 45min. I only get to see daylight on my days off. Which is when I try to get out snowboarding.. mmmm

edit: as for the program, cool. I can't appreciate on the level I should because I can't code html let alone perl... how much time did you put into this? Is it just all math?

 

[dman]

Was going to say, why go to the trouble, you can just use irfanview, it's already free and has tons of plugins... But, not sure it does the metadata stuff (but it might!).

Never tried it, but, also, The GIMP (I think) is a freeware photo editor.

Just tips for those who are looking for this kind of stuff.

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

Originally posted by: dman6666
Was going to say, why go to the trouble, you can just use irfanview, it's already free and has tons of plugins... But, not sure it does the metadata stuff (but it might!).

Never tried it, but, also, The GIMP (I think) is a freeware photo editor.

Just tips for those who are looking for this kind of stuff.

=\ he made it himself. there's pride in that.

 

[Haircut]

Originally posted by: dman6666
Was going to say, why go to the trouble, you can just use irfanview, it's already free and has tons of plugins... But, not sure it does the metadata stuff (but it might!).

Never tried it, but, also, The GIMP (I think) is a freeware photo editor.

Just tips for those who are looking for this kind of stuff.

Where's the fun in that though?
I have written tons of programs that do stuff that commercial software does better, but it's a lot more interesting (and rewarding) to write it yourself.

 

[Luden]

Will do Sir! Anything for the man who runs the "l33t'ist" picture hosting service evar.

(sleepy-time).

 

[notfred]

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