Hi all, Following on from the prof/Sven thread elsewhere, someone suggested that someone should start a thread to allow all the current developers to send a mail stating the stuff which they're currently working on, how they're doing, etc. That someone (the second one, not the first) is me. So I've been pretty quiet for several months now, and I recently nailed my flag to the mast, picked somethign from the TODO and started working on it. It's the Image metadata object item, which grew out of a desire to get the data out of the EXIF image format used in digital cameras and view it. The progress to date has been to get some existing code (from gphoto2) which reads the exif header data nicely, and get that working with the gimp's jpeg plugin. So far I'm reading the data, it's in a structure, it's getting dumped in the plugin, but I haven't passed it back to the main GIMP app. I plan to write some kind of GimPImageMetadata object which will expand on the stuff that EXIF can hold, and to have the ability to create/edit/save the metadata separate to/along with the image (kind of like a thumbnail) where the image format doesn't support metadata, or in the image where it does. I reckon I'll probably work on that over the course of the next month or so (I only really get a few hours gimptime a week). As a matter of interest, does anyone have any ideas beyond "use a parasite, or a number of parasites" on how I can pass the data between the gimp and the plugins? All the image save and load functions should be able to see it, whether they use it or not is up to them. Also, beyond the data fields supported by EXIF, are there other metadata fields that people would like to see? Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary, E-Mail dave.neary@xxxxxxxxxx Palamon Technologies Ltd. Phone +353-1-634-5059
