New 1.1.428.0 beta

The last beta 1.1.420.0 contains several annoying bugs that have been fixed in later versions.

Download Flickr.Manager 1.1.428.0 beta

New 1.1.420 beta released

It seems that current release 1.0 doesn't work with the Flickr because of Flickr API changes and old library doesn't support them. Flickr.Manager 1.1 beta migrated to the new version of Flickr API library and works fine i hope :)

In addition x64 platform support implemeted in this version. Supported since 1.1.420.0 Download Flickr.Manager 1.1.420.0 beta

About 1.1

In december i promised that 1.1 version was coming soon but i was wrong. Some problems occured so i couldn’t to ship it. I don’t know when it’ll be released but you can try it’s beta version using this link Flickr.Manager 1.1 beta

Version 1.1 is coming soon

It will be released in a month and a half or so. Several nice and useful features will be implemented:

1. Several Flickr accounts support
   
2. You will be able to browse and see photos of the groups you are the member of
   
3. Groups of groups i.e. you can group Flickr groups into you own groups and post photos into several Flickr groups without selecting each of them
   
4. Ability to watch Debug log (to investigate some strange and difficult behavior)
   
5. You will be able to delete comments you are allowed to delete.
   

And of course some bugs will be fixed.

Tags sticking problem fixed

Today I found a nasty problem that caused tags sticking on new photo upload. The problem was when you uploaded a photo and added a couple of existing tags to it and adds a couple of new tags divided by comma (not space). After uploading the photo you got two tags instead of four and the first was combination of two existing tags plus the first new. This problem has already been fixed in 1.0.0.310 build.

Blog contacts' photos

Blog contacts' photos, originally uploaded by egoroff.

Now you can post your contacts' photos into your blogs. Since v1.0.0.293

Upload improvements

Since v 1.0.0.291 some improvements have been made on pictures' uploading. Before the version all pictures were uploaded as jpeg pictures and it wasn't desired behavior in many cases. Now all supported types of pictures are uploaded in their original format with possibility to resize or rotate.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Pictures in BMP
format are decoded into JPEG format by Flickr not the application.

Critical bug fixed

One critical bug that caused the program stop working under some circumstances has been fixed. All versions prior 1.0.0.286 expose it. The bug was the program stopped working when a user had no tags at all or an exception occurred during loading tags, sets or blogs.

Posting to a blog screenshot

Post to a blog dialog, originally uploaded by egoroff.

When you click on a photo (only one of your photos) you can choose the option to post the photo to a blog (if you have any attached).

After selecting a photo to blog, just right click on it and select Blog this ... option in drop down menu. You will see the following window (see image). You have to select blog, enter title, password (if necessary) and blog post body (description). In the body you can use any HTML tags you want.

How to edit photo's properties using Flickr.Manager

Flickr.Manager edit photo properties, originally uploaded by egoroff.

It seems that the access to tools to edit your photos' properties or to delete your photos is not obvious. To do so just right click on a photo and you will see drop down menu as shown on the screenshot.

Posting to blog feature

As I promised a couple of days ago I had implemented the feature and one can post photos to a blog right from Flickr.Manager application.

NOTE: You can post only public (not private) photos into your blogs.

The new feature announce

Yesterday I discovered that it's possible to post flickr photos into a blog (I know I'm stupid). Flickr API and FlickrNet library support that feature so I'm going to implement it soon because I found it extremely useful option. I'm not sure whether it's possible to use all HTML tags in posts but if so visual HTML editor will be available for the option.

Small redesign

Tree where you can select what photos to see (all your photos, by tags, by sets, contacts) have been redesigned a bit. Contacts' subtree simplified by removing node Recent (now if you click Contacts node you'll get recent 50 photos of your contacts) and all contacts' items are the childs of Contacts node. Contacts node displays the number of your contacts.

One more bug fixed

An annoying bug fixed. It was on uploading a photo into Flickr. When you try to upload three or more photos into Flickr and resize some of them into different sizes, the largest size one of them may be reset in some circumstances. Fixed version 1.0.0.253 is available to download.

Progress goes on

I haven't worked of the project for a long time (laziness, holidays, illness, etc.) but now I began do it again. Now I'm working about refactoring of GUI part (implementation of MVC pattern for all GUI code) and do small stability improvements. Only one visible change has been made — delete confirmation includes photo's title.

Serious bug fixed

Since v1.0.0.238 serious bug that caused duplicating Photosets fixed. The problem was when you tried to upload several photos into Flickr and created a new Photoset which included all the photos. In that case photoset with the same name created for each photo uploaded.

Customer’s bug report form

Now (since v. 1.0.0.232) you can report bugs, feature requests etc. straight from the application. To do it go to Help and click Bug report … In the opened window write about a problem and press OK. Don't forget about short description and your e-mail.

Flickr.Manager shortcuts

Here is the description of all Flickr.Manager keyboard shortcuts:

• Ctrl+O — Connect/disconnect to/from Flickr.
  
• Ctrl+L — Open application log where all errors or some useful event are written.
  
• Ctrl+A — Open photo upload form.
  
• Alt+1, Alt+2, Alt+3 — Choose the type of image that is loaded into picture box (1 — medium, 2 — large, 3 — original)
  
• F1 — Open About Flickr.Manager dialog.
  

Improvements in errors’ handling

Automatic submission of all unhandled exceptions that may appear in Flickr.Manager into bug tracking system implemented. Thanks to BugzScout about the feature. I hope it will help me to improve the application. This feature implemented since 1.0.0.229 version.

Help request

To whom who knows well Russian and law. Could you help me to translate licenses into Russian? I'm a piece of ignorance in law so I could make a lot of silly mistakes while translating licenses into Russian.