GPixPod

Photo references actually are just links to existing photos inside photo albums. Think of a photo album as a list of links to the pictures: GPixPod before could manage only one link per each picture; now it handles multiple links in different places. For example you could want a photo to show up in two or three different photo albums, or maybe you just want to include it both at the beginning and at the end of a same photo album. Now it’s possible to achieve this, first adding the photo as usually, and then choosing the Add Photo Reference action in the interested photo album specifying the related photo ID.

The implementation of threads in GPixPod allows for a faster processing when adding photos, opening and saving Photo Database, specially on multi-core / multi-processors machines; thanks to this, a very detailed progress indication is available now when opening and saving the Photo Database and the related thumbnails files.

With GPixPod 0.4.2 it is also possible to stop/abort pre-saving operations such as adding/deleting photos, renaming photo albums, etc. etc. any time, just pressing the new button on the right of the progress bar. The status remains unsaved for not completed operations which could be continued later, choosing to save again.

Please download it from SF as usually! (Debian users: try again the .deb package, it should install cleanly now!)

The main home page of GPixPod is now here at the new hosting www.gpixpod.org. The wiki is at http://www.gpixpod.org/wiki. Please update your bookmarks!

Developers are welcome to reimplement in their own projects every piece of code of GPixPod, giving credit of course . Code of particular interest for iPod photos management includes the Photo Database file format access module mh.py and image conversions functions of the file imgconvs.py.

I have published the complete API reference to the mh.py module plus additional info for developers here. The lasted code is available on SF SVN, browsable clicking here.