In article <59957f01bcdave@triffid.co.uk>,
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
G'day folks.
I have a number of directories full of Drawfile pictures, are there any
RISC OS apps that'll take a directory of files (Particularly Draw) and
create thumbnails of them?
Thanks
Dave
Oh dear oh dear oh dear! my brain is farting well today.
Just remembered, get a grip David...
I'm usually using RISC OS 6.20 where I can set the Filer-Layout-Display to Thumbnails.
Unfortunately at the time I was in RISC OS 5.nn which doesn't have that facility.
Dave
I guess it would still be useful to have an app that created thumbnails (Drawfiles).
D.
G'day folks.
I have a number of directories full of Drawfile pictures, are there any
RISC OS apps that'll take a directory of files (Particularly Draw) and
create thumbnails of them?
Thanks
Dave
Just remembered, get a grip David... I'm usually using RISC OS 6.20 where
I can set the Filer-Layout-Display to Thumbnails.
Unfortunately at the time I was in RISC OS 5.nn which doesn't have that facility.
On 4 Dec, Dave wrote in message
<5995805092dave@triffid.co.uk>:
Just remembered, get a grip David... I'm usually using RISC OS 6.20
where I can set the Filer-Layout-Display to Thumbnails.
Unfortunately at the time I was in RISC OS 5.nn which doesn't have that facility.
There's always http://www.davespace.co.uk/risc.os/photofiler.html
I still have a vague thought about a RISC OS app that would take a dir of images and create thumbnails of the Dir contents.
In article <mpro.r3l8ga00z4mfp034i.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>,
Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
On 4 Dec, Dave wrote in message
<5995805092dave@triffid.co.uk>:
Just remembered, get a grip David... I'm usually using RISC OS 6.20
where I can set the Filer-Layout-Display to Thumbnails.
Unfortunately at the time I was in RISC OS 5.nn which doesn't have that
facility.
There's always http://www.davespace.co.uk/risc.os/photofiler.html
Yes indeed, I've downloaded that and next time I'm in RISC OS 5.29 I'll install it.
I still have a vague thought about a RISC OS app that would take a dir of images and create thumbnails of the Dir contents.
Thanks
Dave
On 4 Dec 2021 as I do recall,
Dave wrote:
[snip]
I still have a vague thought about a RISC OS app that would take a dir of images and create thumbnails of the Dir contents.
!Thump will do this (in addition to allowing you to create an internal database with image captions and keywords to assist in searching; I
used to use that a lot, but nowadays I just use the app to let me skim through and select images off the camera card before processing the
chosen ones in Variations).
It is mainly a real-time thumbnail display, but allows you to save the current window contents as a Draw or Sprite file.
http://www.users.on.net/~belles/software/thump/
On the A5000 I used to use PickAPic as a dedicated app to create
catalogues of images in Drawfile format, but I don't know if that can be induced to work on later versions of the Wimp; a quick test fails
because the Obey file can't locate the various Computer Concepts
rendering modules, although the !RunImage is in BASIC.
Yes indeed, I've downloaded that and next time I'm in RISC OS 5.29 I'll install it.
I still have a vague thought about a RISC OS app that would take a dir of images and create thumbnails of the Dir contents.
In article <59958aa837dave@triffid.co.uk>,
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
I still have a vague thought about a RISC OS app that would take a dir
of images and create thumbnails of the Dir contents.
Mr.Clippy?
There was also an app by John Williams for cataloguing images in HTML
format
On 6 Dec, Stuart wrote in message
<59967ef9e8Spambin@argonet.co.uk>:
In article <59958aa837dave@triffid.co.uk>,
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:
I still have a vague thought about a RISC OS app that would take a
dir of images and create thumbnails of the Dir contents.
Mr.Clippy?
If you already have a copy. The iSV software collection has all gone the
way of the ADPL archive website and I don't think the free licence
allowed for third-party distribution.
There was also an app by John Williams for cataloguing images in HTML format
http://petit.four.free.fr/picindex/main.php
It only works on JPEGs, AFAIK, and Dave's requirement (as originally
stated) was for drawfiles.
Back in the days I purchased a number of apps from "isv products" like DrawWorks and others, and on the CDs Mr Clippy resides, but how do I get stuff off those CDs now and into this VRPC?
Win side the CDs play okay, but obviously just dragging Dirs into VRPC doesn't work as all the filetypes are wrong.
Any thoughts please?
Back in the days I purchased a number of apps from "isv products"
like DrawWorks and others, and on the CDs Mr Clippy resides, but how
do I get stuff off those CDs now and into this VRPC?
Win side the CDs play okay, but obviously just dragging Dirs into
VRPC doesn't work as all the filetypes are wrong.
In article <5996a6b8f8dave@triffid.co.uk>, Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk>
wrote:
Back in the days I purchased a number of apps from "isv products"
like DrawWorks and others, and on the CDs Mr Clippy resides, but how
do I get stuff off those CDs now and into this VRPC?
Win side the CDs play okay, but obviously just dragging Dirs into
VRPC doesn't work as all the filetypes are wrong.
Turn them into ZIP files with sparkFS
Alan
On 06/12/2021 16:13, Dave wrote:
Back in the days I purchased a number of apps from "isv products" like DrawWorks and others, and on the CDs Mr Clippy resides, but how do I get stuff off those CDs now and into this VRPC?
Win side the CDs play okay, but obviously just dragging Dirs into VRPC doesn't work as all the filetypes are wrong.
Any thoughts please?
I'm sure VRPC had CDFS support at one stage, but if you have to go via
HostFS and can't find a copy in a archive, you'll have to manually set
the file types. Its not too hard to work out what they should be in most cases by looking at other applications. Talking of cases, you'll
probably want to rename everything from ugly uppercase.
---druck
In article <solf8f$poc$1@dont-email.me>,
druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
On 06/12/2021 16:13, Dave wrote:
Back in the days I purchased a number of apps from "isv products"
like DrawWorks and others, and on the CDs Mr Clippy resides, but how
do I get stuff off those CDs now and into this VRPC?
Win side the CDs play okay, but obviously just dragging Dirs into
VRPC doesn't work as all the filetypes are wrong.
Any thoughts please?
I'm sure VRPC had CDFS support at one stage, but if you have to go via HostFS and can't find a copy in a archive, you'll have to manually
set the file types. Its not too hard to work out what they should be
in most cases by looking at other applications. Talking of cases,
you'll probably want to rename everything from ugly uppercase.
---druck
Back in the days yes, but it doesn't work now and I don't know why.
I have a CD icon on the bar, clicking it presents "Soft-Load driver not present".
In Menu info is says... "No CD-ROM drive present".
There obviously is one on the PC side as I can access it and the files
with a Drive E mount.
Obviously no good to man nor beast as they are all incorrectly filetyped.
FWIW. I've just run Verma and it shows a number of CD related modules,
like CDFS, CDFS Filer, and others and they are all active.
?
Dave
On 06 Dec, dave@triffid.co.uk wrote:
In article <solf8f$poc$1@dont-email.me>,
druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
I'm sure VRPC had CDFS support at one stage
Just looked in the VRPC user manual, it writes:
"Reading CD ROMS
VirtualRPC-DL can read Acorn format (and PC formatted) CDs provided that
you are logged into your computer using an Administrator account. To read
a CD simply place your CD into your PCs CD/DVD drive, close the front of
the drive and click on the RISC OS CD ROM icon (at the far left of the
RISC OS icon bar). If your PC has more than one CD drive (for example a
DVD drive and a CD Writer) then put your Acorn format CD into the drive
with the lowest drive letter. This can be found my clicking on the
Computer icon from the Windows desktop. You can then see all the drives attached to your machine and their drive letters.
You can even use RISC OS to control the tracks playing on a music CD if
you want to."
But it doesn't...
?
Oh I remember now, it needed a DLL to work which needed updating due
changes in Windows. Unfortunately Aaron didn't feel like spending the any
of the considerable amount of money he made from VRPC, on maintaining the product.
In article <5996aa7d8eajg@argonet.co.uk>,
Alan Griffin <ajg@argonet.co.uk> wrote:
Turn them into ZIP files with sparkFS Alan
Really... How can that be done?
Turn them into ZIP files with sparkFS
Alan
Really... How can that be done?
On 06/12/2021 19:20, Dave wrote:
On 06 Dec, dave@triffid.co.uk wrote:
In article <solf8f$poc$1@dont-email.me>,
druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
I'm sure VRPC had CDFS support at one stage
Just looked in the VRPC user manual, it writes:
"Reading CD ROMS
VirtualRPC-DL can read Acorn format (and PC formatted) CDs provided
that you are logged into your computer using an Administrator account.
To read a CD simply place your CD into your PCs CD/DVD drive, close
the front of the drive and click on the RISC OS CD ROM icon (at the
far left of the RISC OS icon bar). If your PC has more than one CD
drive (for example a DVD drive and a CD Writer) then put your Acorn
format CD into the drive with the lowest drive letter. This can be
found my clicking on the Computer icon from the Windows desktop. You
can then see all the drives attached to your machine and their drive letters.
You can even use RISC OS to control the tracks playing on a music CD
if you want to."
But it doesn't...
?
Oh I remember now, it needed a DLL to work which needed updating due
changes in Windows. Unfortunately Aaron didn't feel like spending the
any of the considerable amount of money he made from VRPC, on
maintaining the product.
---druck
Option 2: Make an iso of the CD Win side and use CDFaker to view on RISC
OS, but that seems a pointless exercise as the filetypes when in iso will still be wrong. (I could be in error) :-)
In article <solusb$b9a$1@dont-email.me>,
druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
Oh I remember now, it needed a DLL to work which needed updating due changes in Windows. Unfortunately Aaron didn't feel like spending the
any of the considerable amount of money he made from VRPC, on
maintaining the product.
---druck
Ah!... But the same problem exists on RPCEmu running any OS version, including 5.2nn
In light of this little difficulty I'm beginning to remember things.
Because at some point when VRPC CD drive stopped working I relied on my
very old SARPC which had a CD drive in it to get things from RISC OS
CDs... And now while the SARPC is still working the CD drive itself gave
up the ghost a couple of years ago.
Option 1: Contact CJE and see if they can supply a CD drive that'll work
in a SARPC.
Option 2: Make an iso of the CD Win side and use CDFaker to view on RISC
OS, but that seems a pointless exercise as the filetypes when in iso will still be wrong. (I could be in error) :-)
Option 3: Forget about the whole thing... Do an Alt + Return and get on
with some useful work PC side. }:/
Dave
In article <solusb$b9a$1@dont-email.me>,
druck <news@druck.org.uk> wrote:
Oh I remember now, it needed a DLL to work which needed updating due
changes in Windows. Unfortunately Aaron didn't feel like spending the
any of the considerable amount of money he made from VRPC, on
maintaining the product.
---druck
Ah!... But the same problem exists on RPCEmu running any OS version, including 5.2nn
Option 2: Make an iso of the CD Win side and use CDFaker to view on RISC
OS, but that seems a pointless exercise as the filetypes when in iso will still be wrong. (I could be in error) :-)
Thanks for the input folks, it was an interesting exercise... I'm done,
so it's back to work. :-)
There was also an app by John Williams for cataloguing images in HTML
format
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