[KimDaBa] new snapshot ready

[Guy Zelck]

Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:

>Guy Zelck <gzelck at tiscalinet.be> writes:
>
>| Hi Jesper,
>| 
>| Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
>| 
>| >Guy Zelck <gzelck at tiscalinet.be> writes:
>| >
>| >| Hi Jesper,
>| > | | I've made a new rpm for Suse8.2 of this build
>| 
>| >| (http://home.tiscali.be/guyzelck/Kimdaba/).
>| >I'll put the binary next to the snapshots.
>| >
>| Thanks.
>| 
>| > | | No problems during compilation (qt 3.2.3, kde3.1.4).
>| 
>| >| Checksumming of 8244 images on my 1.8GHz P4 with 512MB took 5 minutes.
>| >| My hdparm stats :
>| >| /dev/hdc:
>| >|  Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.57 seconds =224.56 MB/sec
>| >|  Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  3.37 seconds = 18.99 MB/sec
>| >Well this only happens the first time, right?
>| >next time you start KimDaBa it should not recalc the checksums.
>| >
>| This was just meant as info.
>| 
>| >
>| >| The 1st time I opened a collection of images the thumbnails were empy.
>| >| I changed the size from 64x64 to 32x32 and they appeared, I changed the
>| >| size back and the thumbnails remained ok.
>| >I've seen this from time to time without being able to easily reproduce it.
>| >Often, going back and forth once solves the problem.
>| >
>| >| The search function does NOT work at all. Choosing any of my previously
>| >| defined persons, places or keywords yields nothing!
>| > | | Anything I do wrong?
>| 
>| >This sounds very strange indeed, does the index.xml file look OK? You
>| >didn't kill the program during a save, so that you only got half a file?
>| >
>| The index.xml looks absolutely fine. I didn't kill it, just started it
>| after installing the freshly made rpm.
>| 
>| 
>| >
>| >If you click on Persons, does all your persons show up, with the right
>| >counts?
>| >
>| Yes, all images are there and the counts are correct when I click on the
>| categories themselves. Only searching fails, also with your demo.
>| 
>| Sometimes the search returns a little pop-up window telling me it found 0
>| images. Other times it returns to the normal application window with a
>| totally blank content and the status bar saying "showing 0 images".
>| 
>| 
>| I see this debug output :
>| QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
>| QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
>| QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
>| QImage::smoothScale: Image is a null image
>| (this is when opening the search screen)
>| WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) \x08
>| Major opcode: *
>| WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) \x08
>| Major opcode: *
>| (This is when clicking search)
>| 
>| I've attached some pictures of the screens I see. (hope the mailing list
>| can cope)
>Nope, the list rejects mails which are larger than a certain amount of
>kbytes. But I got it ,-)
>
>It was indeed a bug in my optimization the other day.
>I've fixed it now, and it will be part of the next build.
>
>  
>
Thanks Jesper for the good news and the good work!
I re-installed the stable version again just to check and searching 
works again indeed.
There's a search image on the right that was missing from the newer 
builds I now see. Probably accounts for the error messages.
Looking forward to the next build.
Cheers,
Guy.