On 11/01/2017 11:34, Robert Helling wrote:
Hi,
finally I got around to look at this again.
On 10 Jan 2017, at 09:27, Willem Ferguson
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I am testing all the options in the dive list context menu.
If one imports photos from the Web, it asks for a URL. I provide a
URL to a dropbox directory with photos taken during that dive. Then I
hit the Ok button and nothing happens, except that the dialog is
closed. I would have expected the usual dialog as when importing
photos from hard disk. What is the precise procedure?
This, unfortunately, is not how it (currently) works: So far, you need
the URL of the actual image (not a html page that contains images),
something like http://example.com/myimage.jpg
Then the dialog closes and after the image is retrieved, the usual
dialog as you call it should open. If the download fails or does not
produce a recognisable image, then unfortunately it simply does
nothing. We should display an error message…
Best
Robert
This helps a lot, Robert. Thank you.
I have not been successful in doing this type of import primarily
because I do not have a simple web site to load photos onto. The URLs
provided by Dropbox and Google Plus are complex because I suspect they
they point to an environment (Dropbox/GPlus) for viewing the photo, not
to the photo itself. This is probably why it does not work.
But I think an error message when the load is not successful is really
important from the user perspective.
One more query. I suspect when one loads an image from the Web, the
pointer in the dive log (*.ssrf) points to the web site, and every time
the dive is displayed, the image is loaded from the Web. is this correct?
Kind regards,
willem
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