iPhotoToGallery

One of the longest standing bugs in iPhotoToGallery has been the inability to properly export foreign characters in captions and descriptions. Unfortunately, since Gallery 1 does not use UTF-8 by default, “just use Unicode” was not the right answer.

For Gallery 2 it’s easy - information is by default stored and displayed to the user in UTF-8, so I can just send UTF-8 data and it all works. For Gallery 1 I have to determine what encoding the Gallery installation is using, and send data in that encoding.

If you care about using non-ascii characters, please feel free to test out version 0.62 of the plugin: download. I’ve done my best but I’m sure I haven’t accounted for all possible situations yet. Please let me know if you still run into problems. If so, it would help if you can create a test account for me on your gallery, and send me the text in some of the captions that are failing for you.

Turns out there was a pretty serious bug in 0.60 that was causing uploads to fail for many Gallery installations. That should be fixed now in 0.61. Sorry about that!

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Hi everybody,

Important: It turns out there’s a problem exporting to Gallery version 1.5 with this version of the plugin. I’ll try to get it fixed today. If you’re not using 1.5, go ahead and try upgrade to this one.

Gallery 2: iPhotoToGallery now exports to Gallery 2, beta 3. Right now the API it’s using to talk to G2 is kind of weak, so some things don’t work (like photo descriptions). I’m working closely with the developer who is writing the new, much more powerful API, and when that’s released with G2 iPhotoToGallery will support it as well. At that time we’ll be able to do some much cooler things, possibly even some sort of syncing.

You don’t need to do anything special for G2 galleries. The plugin will auto-detect which kind you have when it logs in. And speaking of logging in, you can now cancel logging in if your server is down or something and it’s taking forever.

Growl: I was also informed that all the cool kids are adding Growl notifications, so I did that as well. Growl users, rejoice.

“Finishing…”: I replaced the standard progress dialog with my own. That should get rid of the never-ending “Finishing…” bug that still pops up. The progress dialog contains some extra eye-candy for you Tiger users as well.

Source?: Yes, I will finally be open sourcing my code. It’ll take a few days to clean and package it up, as it’s kind of a mess right now.

Donations: Lots of you have asked if you can donate to help development. Sure! Just go here.

As always, please let me know about bugs at gallery@zwily.com.

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I just uploaded version 0.52 of iPhotoToGallery. The only thing different in this release from the last is that iPhoto 5 is supported. For those of you who are waiting for certain bug fixes and/or features - don’t worry. I’ve been working on another version with those included. This release is to placate those of you who are emailing daily asking when the plugin will work with iPhoto 5. This release should also work with previous iPhotos, but if you’re not using iPhoto 5, there’s no reason to upgrade.

As always, let me know of problems at gallery@zwily.com. Download this release here.

Hi everybody.

It’s been awhile, but work on iPhotoToGallery hasn’t completely stopped. A pretty good update is in the works, but before that, I need to say something to those of you emailing me about the plugin breaking iPhoto 5: First, shame on you :). Second, I’m aware that something has changed that’s broken iPhotoToGallery, and I’ll release an update to the plugin soon after iPhoto 5 is officially released.

Many of you are also asking “Will Gallery 2 be supported?”. The short answer: Yes. The long answer: As you know, G2 is still a beta product and very much a moving target. There are big plans for a very nice API to allow external programs to access it, but that’s still just in the planning stages. For the short term the developers have implemented a couple of the methods available to Gallery 1.x just to get some sort of remote access available. I will start using those soon so your Gallery 2 installations will work until the real API is available.

Thank you everyone that’s emailed me, either to report a bug or just to say “thanks”. I appreciate it.