1.1.2 Beta 1
Hi all,
I just released 1.1.2beta1 which is a minor update to 1.1.1. There are several performance improvements, zooomr rotation and a couple of bug fixes (see the release notes). Most notably, the windows version now has a native executable to launch rather than the much loathed batch file. No more command window!
Also, jUploadr has been translated into French, Italian and Polish.
I would like to thank the following people for their help:
- Chris Grindstaff found and fixed several memory leaks that affected users when they added a large number of files to the UI. He also made several improvements to the speed of things and made the about dialog flicker free. I’ve added him as a developer and look forward to having his input in the future. He has some really interesting ideas for improving the UI, and I can’t wait to see these integrated into jUploadr.
- Windows users will no doubt be most thankful to Daniel Goncalves, who has nixed the unloved command window once and for all with a slick executable. With this, jUploadr has improved its usability markedly.
- Fabio Lucidi, for the Italian translation
- Stephane Gautrin for the French translation
- Piotr Jańczuk for the Polish translation
I’m going to give 1.1.2 a couple of weeks to sort out the kinks, and once these are fixed, upgrade it to 1.1.2. Then I’ll start on the 50 or so feature requests.
December 11th, 2006 at 11:18 am
Thanks for this — jkust starting to use Flickr and will move many pix onto the web starting now.
December 14th, 2006 at 4:44 am
Just dropping by to say thanks for jUploader.
You save me so much time with Zooomr.
Much respect from an avid photographer.
December 14th, 2006 at 5:23 pm
Thanks — great app…. have a bug report though.
I’m using XFCE and when clicking on the close button (at top right) it closes the window, but doesn’t exit the application (the terminal sits there until i press ctrl+c).
Going into the file menu and selecting exit however does shut down jUploadr properly.
Cheers,
Chris
December 17th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Chris,
That’s not a bug, jUploadr stays resident unless you do a file->exit.
December 18th, 2006 at 2:28 am
Great work! Thanks to all the contributors.
Couple of issues. I ran this on a Polish install of WinXP over the weekend - not yet tried it on my UK laptop. This was with Sun Java 1.5 (can’t remember what patch level).
Firstly, the loading banner stays behind after jUploadr starts. It eventually reports that jUploadr has failed to start, and dies - but the main app keeps running.
Secondly, I saw some very odd behaviour when trying to change language. If I changed from Polish to English, the actual language of the GUI didn’t change. If I had a bunch of photos ready to upload, and *then* changed the language, the same problem (i.e. no UI language change), plus the images would all disappear from the window… but they were “still there” as I couldn’t add them back to the window, it would report that they were already there.
To be fair, this was on Saturday, which was the day when Flickr had some major problems with uploads… but I think there may be a couple of issues here anyway. Will try with English XP asap.
December 18th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
Andy,
You know my email, let’s take this off line. These sound like serious issues, but they *might* be explained by flickr’s outage.
Anyway, email me and we’ll get to the bottom of this.
December 19th, 2006 at 11:00 am
A quick note - when uploading NEF - (nikon’s RAW format) - jUploadr only uploads the jpeg preview. You can see the difference at: http://beta.zooomr.com/photos/wade the large pictures were uploaded through zooomr’s web upload, and the small ones through jUploadr. Some are teh same, yet coming out differently. Any thoughts?
Wade
December 19th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
jUploadr only handles jpeg/png and gif formats as of now. I’m surprised that it worked with the raw format.
December 21st, 2006 at 5:51 am
Hi!
I’m running Juploader under Windows Vista and I cant authoriize my Zooomr account! Thoogh I have no problems authorising my Flickr account! any sugeestions?!
TYVM and keep up the good work!
December 21st, 2006 at 10:55 pm
What’s the error message?
December 22nd, 2006 at 2:56 am
the error message is “the authorization failed”
In case it’s of any help: My webbrowser is Firefox 2 and Im using the latest build of java (6)
TYVM Im really looking forward to using this app!
December 24th, 2006 at 9:22 am
Can’t get the beta to open on Mac OS X 10.3.9 at all. 1.1.1 does just fine, though a bit slow.
December 26th, 2006 at 4:28 pm
Chris,
Can you do the following:
Open Terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal)
when terminal is open type the following:
cd /Applications/JUploadr.app/Contents/MacOS
./JavaApplicationStub
You will then see a bunch of text scroll by. Copy it and paste it in to a response. Email me at steve.m.cohen
at gmail
January 4th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
perfect tool… thx…; i can now use picasa on the desktop and drag and drop into juploadr and then upload…. i have dreamed of this ease of use and convenience. cheers!
January 7th, 2007 at 7:33 am
Thanks for this version.
Two things I notice.
I cannot find the French Language in the Edit/Language menu.
To close only the window and not the application with the close button of the main window seems to me a strange behavior.
January 8th, 2007 at 12:30 am
jUploadr hangs at startup when it tries to restore the state from the previous session. I deleted all images from the previous session (100+ pictures), so I get an error popup for every image that could not be found. Maybe that overstrains the app. Is there a way to delete the previous state?
January 8th, 2007 at 1:04 am
Hi, thank you for this tool. I have been using it on linux since September and it works great!
I can help with translation into Czech. If you are interested, let me know on e-mail.
Sorry to write here but I could not find your e-mail address anywhere.
Jan
January 9th, 2007 at 5:46 am
srill I cant make it work… if someone can give any insight on the matter, it’d be really appreciated!
January 9th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Please please I only miss one feature in juploadr which is watermarking. Even simple text watermarking will do somewhere in the corner of each photo. Can you please kindly add this feature asap? I am ready to give some donation for this if it can be added quickly.
January 10th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
JPS:
Are you sure that you have 1.1.2? That’s the only version with French. Go to Help=>about to find out.
The other behavior you are talking about is normal for jUploadr. The next version will have a feature to disable staying resident. This isn’t such a big deal now that it saves everything on exit.
January 10th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
Hello,
I am investigating setting up a upload program for my site. I’d like to know if you would be able to set this up for us?
Thanks,
Salvatore
January 14th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Hey!
I just started with jUploadr and I am using the beta. I began to upload a batch of photos, then while they were uploading I added many more photos in the queue to be uploaded. Now it’s stuck on adding the non-uploaded photos to photosets…? I don’t know what to do.
January 15th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Salvatore,
I will not be doing any more plugin development for jUploadr unless it’s for my personal use, but there is an API for developing plugins. Find it here
Tyler,
I’ve never tried adding photos while it’s uploading. It surprises me a little that this doesn’t work, but I would refrain from doing that in the future. Next time you click upload, let it finish before you upload more. I’ll look at the code to figure out why it didn’t work. It will be fixed on a subsequent version, though it will upload the photos you added when it gets to them, limiting your time to edit the metadata. That’s really not the best way to do things.
January 16th, 2007 at 7:50 pm
Love this tool, but I recently switched to a 64 bit processor using Windows XP 64 bit. I’ve got Java 1.6 installed and running your via the batch file give me this error:
ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.
goto was unexpected at this time.
January 17th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Ed, that’s not good news. Looks like they changed the registry key that jUploadr uses to find the java home directory. Not good news at all.
Email me at steve.m.cohen at gmail and we’ll fix this.
Have you tried using the latest version (1.1.2)? It’s got an executable rather than a batch file, but it does the same thing.
January 19th, 2007 at 12:15 am
Great job man!!
One question… HAve you trieb JUploadr with the new Java 1.6?
January 19th, 2007 at 10:58 pm
Gandhi
No, 1.6 was released after 1.1.2, so I make no guarantees.
January 24th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Tyler, I am having the same problem as you. If you add photos half way through a upload, then jUploadr will get stuck adding the photos to the photoset.
January 25th, 2007 at 12:54 am
ktvyeow and tyler:
I’ve found the problem and it’s fixed in CVS, but I’m not going to change jUploadr to automatically upload photos as you drop them in. This could have consequences in photo ordering, and most people like to have a consistent ordering to their photos.
What will happen is that any photos that are added during upload won’t upload immediately, but should work fine when you click the upload button again.