[KPhotoAlbum] KPA 4.1.1: stacking problems

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

Henner, didn't you mention you had some time for KPA hacking over the xmas 
holidays :-) This is your baby isn't it?

Hint hint :-)


Cheers
Jesper.

On Friday 25 December 2009 18:46:46 Martin Jost wrote:
| Hello,
| 
| I finally tried to track down my stacking issues more closely.
| (Some stacks do not open; in other stacks moving images out of the
| stack, make them "jump" to a totally different place...)
| 
| For that purpose I've written a perl-hack, which tries to analyze the
| stacking structures in index.xml.
| (This perl hack (KPAstacks) is attached as a somewhat dubious christmas
| gift to the KPA community)
| 
| Currently the following checks are done:
| - StackId and StackOrder are only allowed together
| - Each combination of StackId/StackOrder is allowed only once
| - The StackOrder are numbered consecutive, starting with 1
|   (This also means, that no images outside any stack or with another
|    StackId are allowed in between)
| - Each image (as identified by 'fileName' is only allowed once;
|   either within a stack or outside.
| 
| I found all sorts of mishap in my index.xml:
| - Several images, carrying the same StackId/StackOrder (surely a bug)
| - Stacks with other images in between (belonging to another stack, or
| outside any stack)
| - Quite often, the image with stackOrder=1 is separated from the other
|   images in the stack. In between were even images from a different folder.
|   (This is the single, most often reported issue, found by my tool)
| 
| All in all, 25 % of all stacks had problems.
| 
| The perl hack does *not* change the input file. So you can have a try,
| without running risk of spoiling something.
| Have a look at "KPAstack -h" for details.
| 
| I'm now fixing the reported issues, by hand-editing index.xml. I will
| than have a try, if the issues reappear, when using KPA 4.1.1.
| 
| Regards
| 
| Martin
| 

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