SortImages / News: Recent posts

I've migrated the source code of this project to github (https://github.com/maxheadroom/sortimages-gui) as I'm more active over there.

I've also updated the project with a new version of Drew Nokes metadata-extractor and a newer version of the MySQL connector.

I fixed a bug where images would not be inserted into the Database of the image contains not EXIF tags with the image dimension.

Next feature will be a SQLite implementation to make it independent of MySQL.

Fixed the file finder so that hidden files (starting with a dot) are ignored. This fixes some warnings for meta files under MacOS X.

I like to evolve SortImagesGUI and ask all users or future users to give me suggestions on new features to implement.
My own ideas so far are:

1.) picture preview during sorting
2.) customizable filenames

Please use the forum for any suggestions.

I think I finished this job by now. SortImagesGUI run stable on my platform and I got now reply for errors by now. So I release it as final. This means not there are no bugs in it ;-)

I released beta 6 of SortImagesGUI. Now the properties file gets reloaded after it was modified via the properties dialog (which by now is modal).

Beat 5 features a easier usage. You don't need to provide the configfile in the command line. If you don't provide this, it will be automatically created.
You even do not need a database from now on. If you don't check the db option the files will just be sorted and copied.

No you didn't missed the Beta3. There is a beta3 tag in the CVS but this contains an error in the recursive findFiles method. So I fixed this an release beta4 instead.
I also added a label how many files where found and will be potentially handled.

I released the second Beta version of SortImagesGUI. Most things are functional now. ProgressBars are working correctly. Still no help and no documentation.
Figured out some problems with infos inserted into database when running under windows.

Hi!
I released the first functional beta version of SortImagesGUI. This works quite fine. The progress bars are still not working and there maybe some error in unusual handling conditions. But hey this is a beta version.

You can check it out from CVS with the "beta1" tag from the "SortImagesGUI" module

On advise of my brother I started developing a GUI version of SortImages. This is for all the users who are not familiar with a command line.
You can check out the first few steps from the CVS. The new modul name is SortImagesGUI.

I had to release beta7 (CVS tag) because there was still a fatal bug in the handling of images with no EXIF-Header. And additionally a bug/fault in the database handler. It could happen on mass insert that an "too much connections" error appear on earlier versions of SortImages. This should now be fixed.

I have published the HTML-version of the documentation found in the CVS repository on the projects homepage. Most of the user documentation is finished and the first few paragraphs on the developer documentations are also available.

Created home page under sortimages.sourceforge.net and uploaded first simple homepage.
Also uploaded html version of the documentation generated by the documentation.xml from CVS

I released beta 4. Made some fixes on the error handling and changed the install task.

Unfortunatly this release will show a wrong version Number in the Help function.

I released beta3 with some major changes. I switched from jvm cmd line properties to a properties file for easier handling. The build script was enhanced by an install task. And I fixed some error handling code.
This release was tested under Linux and Windows 2000.

If you don't want to build from source you can use the RPM file for installing just the JAR file and a start script.

I finished the second beta version. Improvments are made at the loggin facillity and threading. A great performance boost was made by making the file copy a own runnable class.

Hello out there. I finished the first functional beta version of sortimages in java. This version features the base functionallity of sorting images according to EXIF-Header date information and inserts the images into mysql database.
But there are still many bugs and code is really dirty.

But I know you are brave and want to try it anyway.

So check out cvs tag "beta1" if you want to make your harddisk dirty too.

I uploaded the old shell script version of this programm. So the unpatient can use this as long as I finish the Java version. But this will only work under Linux.

Uploaded the first alpha version of sortimages in Java. There is no really functionality than listing the found images and producing some textural output. Build script will compile and make JAR-File but the Jar-File has still incorrect manifest.
Work in progress