Blog entries tagged with "software"

(this is mostly a post for my own reference)

At the camera club we use IrfanView to display our monthly competitions entries. The images to be presented end up in a number of folders which are copied to the club’s laptop, then batch scripts run IrfanView with the /slideshow option.

Recently I reset that laptop back to a fresh install of Windows 11 (the only way to uninstall all Adobe software) so I also needed to reinstall programs such as IrfanView, which I did.

But then I tested running a slideshow, oh I need to turn off the text which shows the image path. No problem, there is a page in the settings for slideshow:

I turned off “Show text” and turned on “Hide mouse cursor”

Tested the slideshow again… that didn’t work.

I loaded a single image and went full screen, that doesn’t show the text. What is happening?

I then spent an hour or two trying all sorts of options like reverting to an older version and targeting an ini file in the local directory, none of them worked. Though I could change the position of the text, so some settings were working.

I had been so fixated on the text showing that for a while I didn’t notice the other issue, that the images were advancing automatically, not waiting for mouse/keyboard input.

Where is that setting? Oh, those are when you go to start a slideshow:

There it is at the top left, “Sequential after mouse/keyboard input”

Hold on… why is there also a “Show text” setting here?

Ah, if I change the setting and then Cancel, it still changes settings for slideshows, so now when I run from the batch file it is doing what I want.

Not the best design, mixing settings for running a new slideshow with settings for future slideshow.

Is is also only now that I have taken these screenshots that I see that “Full screen / Slideshow” settings page is split, most of the settings apply to both full screen and slideshow, but the bottom settings (where “Show text” is) is below a “Full screen ONLY” divider…

Last weekend was StixCampNewstead, a Melbourne BarCamp out in the sticks. The general consensus is that the event can be summarised in a single word:

Awesome

This one word covers:

• the talks/discussions – schedule of talks
• the venue – Welshmans Reef Vineyard
• the food – BBQ lunch; wood fired pizzas; bacon, egg and sausage rolls; homemade dumplings
• the people – too many to list
• the adhoc discussions – to varied to list

If you didn’t come along, you must come along to the next BarCampMelbourne in September and next year’s StixCamp, wherever that will be.

Over the weekend I took almost 600 photos, earlier in the week I sorted through them an uploaded 129 into a set on Flickr. There are photos from others on Flickr, or you can check out what people said before, during and after the event on Twitter or Identi.ca.

After reading my conclusion regarding the Forms That Work training, Hamish asked me if I had ever posted about the bikeshed.

I took him literally and replied that I had; at first when they were installed and again when I first used them.

He wasn’t talking about the actual lockers where we store our bicycles at work. He meant the proverbial bikeshed that doesn’t get painted because everyone must have input on the simple decision of selecting a colour. The other part of the proverb is the billion dollar atomic power plant that is approved right away because it is too complex to grasp, and thus few feel that they must have input.

When I think about it, bikesheds occur far too often. In my experience, most of these are “it’s just” situations:

• It’s just another web page,
• It’s just another web form; or
• It’s just another link.

I’m not going to expand on these “it’s just” situations at the right now. They could be good topics for future posts…

Apparently today is Software Freedom Day so after I picked up my latest acquisition I parked at Clifton Hill Station and made my way to the Melbourne Town Hall to check out the bazaar which had a melbourne.pm representation.

I was only there for an hour and a half but I:

• listened to Jon Oxer, Mark Gray, and Steve Middleton talk about combating the 20 billion dollar ICT trade defecit with FOSS, some pragmatic examples for small businesses and how FOSS enables a free media.
• Found out about BarCampMelbourne that is happening in March next year. I shall keep my eye on this one.
• Briefly caught up with some people I know through melbourne.pm.

There weren’t that many people there but I hope it picked up later in the afternoon.