Acemuzzy’s Positronic Blog

OK, in this post I challenged myself to write an album-producing GUI in C#.  This blog attempts to document my attempts to do so!

What I did!

C# stuff

• Cranked up Visual Studio C# 2008, and sketch out some UI.
• Discovered some (for me) new controls (including tabs, progress bars etc., and browsing to the desired directory.
• Got it to read in all the (relevant - i.e. jpg / bmp) filenames
• Decided to use my own UI technique for displaying the pictures, which allowed me to load additional photos in the Application.OnIdle event.
• Had some issues along the way
• Got it producing thumb nails thanks to this article.
• Saved them off to a new directory.
• Dump a long list of html containing all the thumbnails, with links to a php file

HTML / PHP Stuff

• Currently very simple HTML, but I want to get this into a database and use PHP
• I did use PHP for a simple photo displaying page, but need to beef this up

The output

• You can see the thumbnails HERE, which link through to the full pictures
• I haven’t uploaded all the full pictures yet though, as they’re BIG!  I might need to downscale them or something
• You can download the source and .exe file here.  Please view as v0.001.