Last Update – 3 May 2008
The story goes like this, we use Gallery for our family photo album. My wife does most of the picture uploading and really liked using GalleryRemote. Then I had to go and update our home computer to 64 bit Vista Ultimate. GalleryRemote did not get along very well with Vista. Perhaps it was simply user error, but after spending hours I just could not get GalleryRemote to work reliably on Vista.
The search was on for an alternative. In the meantime, I uploaded pictures directly using the online tools. This works great, but it just does not have that "fat client" feel that we had gotten used to. Nothing else seemed to fit the bill.
So, Pix2Gallery2 was then born. I had tried briefly about a year ago to write a similar client for Windows Mobile, so I started from there.
Pix2Gallery2 is simply a .NET 2.0 version of GalleryRemote written in C#. I borrowed heavily from the existing GalleryRemote UI, which is likely obvious for anyone who uses GalleryRemote today. I developed and tested this on 64 bit Vista, but it should work fine on 32 bit Vista as well as the 32 and 64 bit flavors of Windows XP. I only tested this against Gallery 2.2.x, although it should work fine against just about any version of Gallery 2. It will not work against Gallery 1.x.
License: Freeware - please do not re-distribute or re-host without my permission. If you are so inclined, feel free to donate to the cause.
Prerequisite: .NET Framework 2.0, which you can get from Windows\Microsoft Update.
Latest Version: 0.9.5 (Last Update on 3 May 2008)
Product Releases and Source: Pix2Gallery2 on CodePlex
Instructions: Unzip and double click on Pix2Gallery2Setup MSI file. If you have a previous version, it should uninstall the previous version automatically and seamlessly upgrade. If not, please let me know.
0.9.5 -
PSE 6 bug fixes, plus some other random fixes from justMat. Some more Gallery 1.5 bugs fixed - but still in need of access to a Gallery 1.5 installation for further troubleshooting - let me know if you are willing to help!
0.9.4 -
Added PSE 6 support from Shaggs. Some Gallery 1.5 bugs fixed - but there are more. In need of access to a Gallery 1.5 installation for further troubleshooting - let me know if you are willing to help!
0.9.3 -
Added untested support for Gallery 1.5 - it should work, but is currently lacking in any quality assurance. If it works, I may have to re-name the application!
Updated the icon and the About box - certainly not the most creative graphics, but slightly better than the default generic stuff.
0.9.2 -
Variety of PSE related features written and driven by Shaggs.
Main drag and drop interface now copies EXIF information when resizing JPEG images.
A couple of cosmetic UI tweaks to the transition from PSE to drag and drop as well as the upload progress dialog.
0.9.1 -
Fixed a bug in the logging that caused an immediate crash.
0.9.0 -
Added ability to download existing pictures from a chosen album - see the Tools menu.
Added an upload progress bar dialog that pops up during each file upload.
Improved the thumbnail handling - all thumbnails are now square and will display in the list view in a higher quality.
An update to the PSE module, courtesy of Shaggs.
0.8.6 -
Added a new module, written by Shaggs, to enable uploading from Abode Photoshop Elements.
0.8.5 -
Added ability to resize pictures prior to uploading.
Added debug logging to a file in order to make user issues easier to diagnose.
Added an API to get the picture list for an album - the UI feature will be in an upcoming release.
0.8.4 –
Minor usability tweaks to help with the “blank page, what do I do first” issue.
Moved the download albums task to a thread – hopefully will help with larger Galleries.
A few other minor usability and consistency tweaks and bug fixes.
0.8.3 -
Persist settings such as Gallery URLs and credentials.
Login to a Gallery site.
List available albums on that site.
Add files for download via File-Open dialog or Drag and Drop
Allow picture captions to be edited.
Allow for upload of pictures to that chosen site.
Create new albums.
Lots of features left to develop! Help me decide which ones are the most important. Add feature requests and vote on existing requests at http://www.codeplex.com/pix2gallery2.
Nothing guaranteed, but feel free to email questions, comments, feature requests, and bug reports about Pix2Gallery2 to pix2gallery2@dinklocker.com.
My name is Ted Dinklocker and for my day job I work for Microsoft Corporation as a Program Manager on the Microsoft Auto team. We build a software platform for use in vehicles - primarily focused on infotainment scenarios. We have a family of currently available devices in Fiat vehicles called Blue&Me. For the 2008 model year, we will also have a device available in Ford vehicles called Ford SYNC.
In a previous life I was a Visual C++ developer and a structural engineer. Now the only code I write is samples or freeware like Pix2Gallery2.
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