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HFS ~ HTTP File Server / Feature Req: Utilizing thumbs.db for image gallery
« on: August 30, 2007, 02:08:43 PM »
Hello again..
Besides plain filesharing, I'd say hosting image (& video) gallery is one thing many people would like to be able to use their HFS for. They could just drop their image folder into HFS, select 'Gallery' option and a gallery with thumbnails would be shown instead of the normal file listing. Currently I've used XnView to generate web page with thumbs and hosted it on my HFS but this requires _a lot_ of work and it's almost impossible for a novice to do.
So if HFS could simply read (and maybe also generate if not exist) normal windows thumbs.db files and use images inside them as thumbnails on generated web page.
Of cource HFS could have it's own thumbnail generator but I think that would require tons of more work and would be slow & heavy feature. Getting the thumbs from thumbs.db is quite fast and simple operation I believe..
Gallery could be very simple one (f.ex: http://uri.fi/xnviewgalleryexample/) but of cource it would be nice to have also template tags available for image resolution, dpi, exif infos etc. like in xnview does but that's not important really...
Besides plain filesharing, I'd say hosting image (& video) gallery is one thing many people would like to be able to use their HFS for. They could just drop their image folder into HFS, select 'Gallery' option and a gallery with thumbnails would be shown instead of the normal file listing. Currently I've used XnView to generate web page with thumbs and hosted it on my HFS but this requires _a lot_ of work and it's almost impossible for a novice to do.
So if HFS could simply read (and maybe also generate if not exist) normal windows thumbs.db files and use images inside them as thumbnails on generated web page.
Of cource HFS could have it's own thumbnail generator but I think that would require tons of more work and would be slow & heavy feature. Getting the thumbs from thumbs.db is quite fast and simple operation I believe..
Gallery could be very simple one (f.ex: http://uri.fi/xnviewgalleryexample/) but of cource it would be nice to have also template tags available for image resolution, dpi, exif infos etc. like in xnview does but that's not important really...