Import photos from web

[Willem Ferguson]

On 11/01/2017 11:34, Robert Helling wrote:
> Hi,
>
> finally I got around to look at this again.
>
>> On 10 Jan 2017, at 09:27, Willem Ferguson 
>> <willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za 
>> <mailto:willemferguson at zoology.up.ac.za>> wrote:
>>
>> I am testing all the options in the dive list context menu.
>>
>> If one imports photos from the Web, it asks for a URL. I provide a 
>> URL to a dropbox directory with photos taken during that dive. Then I 
>> hit the Ok button and nothing happens, except that the dialog is 
>> closed. I would have expected the usual dialog as when importing 
>> photos from hard disk. What is the precise procedure?
>
> This, unfortunately, is not how it (currently) works: So far, you need 
> the URL of the actual image (not a html page that contains images), 
> something like http://example.com/myimage.jpg
> Then the dialog closes and after the image is retrieved, the usual 
> dialog as you call it should open. If the download fails or does not 
> produce a recognisable image, then unfortunately it simply does 
> nothing. We should display an error message…
>
> Best
> Robert

This helps a lot, Robert. Thank you.

I have not been successful in doing this type of import primarily 
because I do not have a simple web site to load photos onto. The URLs 
provided by Dropbox and Google Plus are complex because I suspect they 
they point to an environment (Dropbox/GPlus) for viewing the photo, not 
to the photo itself. This is probably why it does not work.

But I think an error message when the load is not successful is really 
important from the user perspective.

One more query. I suspect when one loads an image from the Web, the 
pointer in the dive log (*.ssrf) points to the web site, and every time 
the dive is displayed, the image is loaded from the Web. is this correct?

Kind regards,

willem


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