Re: [Tracker] Updated To do for next version

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Jamie McCracken wrote:
> Edward Duffy wrote:
> > On 10/3/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > > Edward Duffy wrote:
> > > > On 10/3/06, Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk> wrote:
> > > > > Edward Duffy wrote:
> > > > > > patch attached.
> > > > > great but what about comments in gif files?
> > > > >
> > > > > Also whats the problem  with animated gifs? Do they output multiple
> > > > > heights and widths?
> > > > yeah...eg.
> > > > 150x10773x9571x9671x10073x10073x9571x9671x10073x10073x9571x9...
> > > > > cant we use format "W%w\\nH%h\\nC%c"
> > > > >
> > > > > so you can g_strsplit on \n and tell the type by looking at the first
> > > > > char (or whatever else works)
> > > > yeah..that'll probably work... gimme a sec.
> > > oh I dont know if the comment can contain a newline char so best to make
> > > sure you handle that too (unless you know otherwise)
> > so demanding... ;)
>
> yeah sorry but important to get it right now before it bites us in the 
> arse later :)
>
> > Ok, here it is.  Wasn't sure if tracker handled newlines in strings,
> > so I called g_strescape on it.  Go ahead and remove it if it's not
> > nessasary.  But it'll look like this:
> >
> > Image.Comments=Created with The GIMP\n\nBut with a newline;
> > Image.Width=640;
> > Image.Height=480;
>
> will this work with animated gifs though? (i dont have any to test!)
>
> from what you said above it does not look like it?

FWIW, take a look at how tracker-extract extracts metadata with 
libextractor - you might want to use a similiar format (eg 
Image.Height=10;\nImage.Width=10\n) for the format string.

(GHashtable will overwrite values with the same key so it should be okay 
for animated gifs)

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