Re: [Chicken-users] photo album in chicken

[Ashish Shrestha]

Hi Peter,

Thanks a lot for feedback. I will definitely have a look at
'phoghorn'. Every different code is something nice to learn.

Thanks for the imlib:destroy. I opted for imlib2 instead of epeg was
because I lazy and didn't really check if they would work well with
larger image. When I read thumbnail and optimized, I thought it might
be optimized just for thumbnails and not larger pictures like 640x480.
In the album I scale images from my digital camera to 640x480 as well
as generate thumbnails. Will have a look at epeg too.

As for Javascript, well I actually wanted to give Lightbox JS a try. :)

Cheers,
Ashish


On 4/30/06, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:40:55PM +0100, Ashish Shrestha wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Chicken scripts to generate a HTML gallery. Something I wrote to learn
> > scheme so is less scheme than most would like to see. Yes I know I
> > have a lot to learn so would love to get feedback on the code.
>
> I must say your code looks great.  I also wrote an image gallery like
> this, but mine is messier (mostly because I output strings, not SXML).
> You can have a look at mine by fetching the 'phoghorn' egg.
>
> > The album uses Lightbox JS and sample albums are at
> > http://axhixh.homelinux.com/ Specially the new albums.
>
> IMHO using javascript for this is overkill.  Of course this is a matter
> of preference, I think.
>
> > Would love to hear about the code. What is the correct way to handle
> > errors and an issue with memory. I run out of memory and the script
> > hangs when I am working with large (5 mega pix or higher) images.
>
> I think you're missing a call to imlib:destroy to free the memory used
> by an image.  The imlib2 egg is a pretty direct set of bindings to the
> C library and does not hook to the garbage collector for cleaning up
> memory automatically.
>
> Also, since you only accept JPEG images, I can recommend changing your
> program to use the epeg egg instead of the imlib2 egg.  epeg is just like
> imlib, only specialised for JPEG images.  It was written by Rasterman
> from the Enlightenment project precisely for this purpose; scaling
> many photos to thumbnails for galleries.  Because it less general-purpose
> it can be much faster.  I think it's about twice as fast as imlib2.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
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