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willem wigman replied on August 24, 2009 19:34 to the question "Why Aren't the Pictures Always Clear?" in OpenZoom:

Hi Daniel,

Sorry I haven't replied to your email yet... I'll see to that tomorrow:D
I've just updated to your latest version, and I must say.. you did a wonderfull job on improving the render-engine!
I'm still searching for some minor differences in viewport proportions etcetera, but I think I'll be able to fix everything in one day:)

One again, thank you!

willem wigman replied on August 24, 2009 19:30 to the question "How to Use a Progress Bar with OpenZoom SDK?" in OpenZoom:

Hi Sanjay,

did you update to the official release? Have you adjusted the NetworkRequestEvent allready?
Would be wonderfull if you could update your previous adjustment to the code:D
Could you let me know? otherwise I'll dive into it myself:)

greetings, Willem

willem wigman replied on August 11, 2009 10:16 to the question "Why Aren't the Pictures Always Clear?" in OpenZoom:

"P.S. Who's your friend who's saying bad things about OpenZoom? ;)"

that would be me;) But then again, I'm absolutely not saying bad stuff.. I've given only appreciation and admiration about the OpenZoom project. I'm using it in a quite large-scale project, and I simply love it:)

I told Tim about the technology when I showed him my work in progress.. Then he checked it out and found out that the latest CS4 SDK version in the SVN doesn't always render images sharply, which I also noticed at some point when I updated the source files to a new revision.. I simply went back to the previous version, assuming there will be a 'final version' at some point.. that'll be my cue point to update my project.. for now I keep working with the 'older revision'..

I kinda assume you're not really actively developing the project for Flash, but rather for Flex.. and at some point you also update the Flash version... Am i right or wrong? ;-)

Once again... I love you're work, and I'm following your progress every day:)
I will send you a link to my work in progress, like I promissed once before, haha.. I'd love to hear your feedback:)

Greetings, Willem.

willem wigman replied on June 14, 2009 12:06 to the question "How to Use a Progress Bar with OpenZoom SDK?" in OpenZoom:

works like a charm!

thanx a million, you saved me some work there!

willem wigman replied on June 11, 2009 12:26 to the question "How to Use a Progress Bar with OpenZoom SDK?" in OpenZoom:

yeah, that would be nice! I'm glad you're willing to share Sanjay;)

A comment on the question "How to Use a Progress Bar with OpenZoom SDK?" in OpenZoom:

Hi Sanjay, I 've been looking for this as well.. would you care to share the updated classes with me? If so, could you contact me through PM? – willem wigman, on June 10, 2009 11:49

willem wigman replied on May 11, 2009 13:56 to the problem "Install Issues With Python Deep Zoom Tools" in OpenZoom:

Well, this takes to much time for me.. now it's asking for a Mac-Developer toolkit:

Compiling with an SDK that doesn't seem to exist: /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk

So.. I'll probably stick to Photoshop export.

Tnx anyway.. moving on to the next 'bear on the road' ;-)

willem wigman replied on May 11, 2009 13:37 to the problem "Install Issues With Python Deep Zoom Tools" in OpenZoom:

aaah, right. Thanks, I'll check it right away

willem wigman replied on May 11, 2009 13:21 to the problem "Install Issues With Python Deep Zoom Tools" in OpenZoom:

okay, running 2.6 now, but now i'm getting a different error


File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.6/lib/python2.6/site-packages/deepzoom.py", line 38, in <module>
import PIL.Image
ImportError: No module named PIL.Image
</module>

the package did install after running the setup.py script...

willem wigman replied on May 11, 2009 12:18 to the problem "Install Issues With Python Deep Zoom Tools" in OpenZoom:

Hi Daniel,

i feel kinda stupid.. but can't get it to work.
At your advise I'm trying to run it locally (updated to python 3 on my mac). now I get this error:

Last login: Mon May 11 15:15:00 on ttys000
willem:~ willem$ cd '/Applications/Python 3.0/Extras/Demo/0.1.0/' && '/usr/bin/pythonw' '/Applications/Python 3.0/Extras/Demo/0.1.0/setup.py' && echo Exit status: $? && exit 1
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help

error: no commands supplied
willem:0.1.0 willem$


What am I missing?

willem wigman replied on May 08, 2009 11:10 to the question "To Use or Not to Use OpenZoom?" in OpenZoom:

Daniel,

"Forgive me for not having offered you to email me your examples before." So.. is that the offer?
"P.S. Don't worry, you're definitely not a pain in the #%$ and this remains so as long as you don't spam my personal inbox. :)" so maybe I better not mail you my example? haha..

Okay, that still leaves me with some questions..

If I don't modify your api core code, is it possible to update when you've published the new rendering engine?

I understood the Multiscale Image Formats part.. but the question was actually more about the best tools to use. For this project, it will only be computerscreens which will be used.
Since I'm mainly using my mac I can't really use the DZ-compiler. And I can't get python to work on my hosting-account..

So I exported the same picture both on my windows pc with DZ-compiler and on my mac with Photoshop CS4.. and it seems photoshop does a way better job on exporting the picture..

willem wigman replied on May 08, 2009 10:48 to the question "Getting Started With the Flex OpenZoom SDK Components" in OpenZoom:

I think for most people only the title is clear;) Your grammar is poor, for people that don't know French that well (like me).

What I could make of it:
- You're new to flex
- You want to use it to develop something for your studies finalwork

In this project you want to:
- to load a map (of a city) in 5.000x5.000px
- after (after loading?) you want to move around and zoom into the map
- you'd like to retrieve the coördinates

I'm sure Daniel can do a better job at answering you're questions. But to me it seems like the best thing would be to:
- read openzoom.org
- come back after that, and ask some specific questions, in english. Or well formed french, so it can be translated...

willem wigman replied on May 07, 2009 19:24 to the question "To Use or Not to Use OpenZoom?" in OpenZoom:

Hi again, Daniel:)

I did some more testing today. And I must say the problem is smaller then i thought. It's probably al lot of tweaking I still need to do.

with "the tile overlap becomes very visible" i mean you can really see that it's blocks being loaded, and especially on the overlap you can see it really clear. But after today's testing I need to add: it only occurs when I load the same picture more then once. So, after it's cached or still in memory?

I'm testing just a simple version of the MultiScaleImage.fla .. I'm loading 4 different images from a menu.. Which will basically be the way it'll have to work. People select a project from a menu and browse through some pictures.. So it could be that people open the same image more then once.. Any idea how I could prevent this problem?

Since I can't use your openzoom format yet, which format do you think works best for my project? Zoomify or Deepzoom images? The zoomify pictures, exported from photoshop, seem to work smoother than the deepzoom pictures (for big stages). Or do you think it makes no difference?

willem wigman replied on May 07, 2009 11:53 to the question "To Use or Not to Use OpenZoom?" in OpenZoom:

you're so quick.. but that's not really the first time you hear that i guess;)
Well the thing is, on high resolution (or big stage-size) the tile overlap becomes very visible. especially when reloading the images from cache. When using a smaller stage-size (like 400x400) it renders really smoothly. On 1920x1050 it's not. When using one tile it does.. but then it becomes slow when loading from a server.

Is it not so, that when i render a 1920px image, that ALL the smaller levels are being loaded.. so basically it takes much longer to load a file?

When starting this project i was looking for something like streaming images in Flash, instead i found this methodology.. now i wonder if i'm doing the right thing.. It might just be more then I actually need for this project...

Haha, sometimes you get so exited about some new techniques that you forget all about the purpose..

If you like, i could pm or mail you the link to the tests I'm running. Than you can see what i mean?

Thanks for your help!

Willem

willem wigman asked a question in OpenZoom on May 07, 2009 08:48:

To Use or Not to Use OpenZoom?

Hi Daniel,

Let's start with saying I admire your work. I've been playing around (or been poking it, as someone else said;) with the flash examples and I think you did a really great job on structuring the whole thing. I'm really not the most advanced programmer but I can find my way around quite easiliy.

I'm currently working on a project where I need to load some fullscreen high-quality images to show porfolio stuff. but it has to render supersmoothly on both small and really huge screens.. Now i've been testing your API and the tiled loading doesn't really look as smooth as I would have hoped. Now I'm thinking about using it with single-tile images.

But now I'm doubting wheter I'm on the right track using this sytem. because I'm not using the zooming functionality. I only need the smooth loading and fullscreen image (no matter what resolution).

So actually I'm asking your opinion, do you think it still makes sence to use OpenZoom or are there alternative ways you know of, for selective image loading (depending on stagesize) and progressive loading?

Again, I love your work and I'm sure I will use it on projects in the future, but I don't know wheter I should use it now...