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In the interests of consolidating all FotoBilder development-related discussion, we're going to be closing down this community. The same conversations we've been having here can instead be posted to

lj_dev.

lj_dev will be the place for everything related to LiveJournal/FotoBilder development topics. This includes both the code itself, client development, as well as installing the code. So, feel free to join the community and participate. :)

What's available for us Mac users?
Apparently none of the FB clients work for me. Using iPhoto '08 on an Intel Mac (OS 10.4.10)

I'm kinda peeved. I'm paying for my Livejournal account, and I don't get a client to upload pictures?

:(

Current Mood: annoyed

Complete client, or only uploads?
All of the available ScrapBook clients seem to exist solely to upload pictures to the ScrapBook. Are there any clients to allow manipulation of the existing images (delete, annotate, modify security)? Or does that all have to be done from the pics.livejournal.com website?

Helo and help
HI i am new *waves*

I am looking for a linux client for fotobuilder does anyone know of one??

I have found 2 but there is no download for them??

I am running Kubuntu 6.10

thank you in advance

carter

Current Mood: curious

fraserspeirs' iphoto plugin
how does this plugin work?

it seems to have installed, but as far as i can tell, there is no export option to scrapbook from iphoto.

is this universal? im on an intel mac.

FotoBilder client for Far file manager
Just a year and a half passed, and I updated my FotoBilder client for Far file Manager.

Feel free to try.

( Changelog follows )

Backing up scrapbook?
Due to my uploading things willy-nilly, I don't actually have an equivalent of my Lj-scrapbook directories on my hard drive here at home... are there any tools out there that will back up my scrapbook? Heck, even a hack that'd let me do it via FTP would work for me... ideas, anyone?

Symbian 9 client
Hi!
Does any Symbian client for LJ scrapbook exist? I have Nokia E60, so Nokia Lifeblog doesn't work for me. Using phone's web browser is hard. Client for Windows Mobile is ease to make using KodeFoto, and for Symbian it can be ported from some Python client, so may be somebody made it already?
Thanks, and sorry for my English.

Jix release
First open source Jix release: http://community.livejournal.com/fb_jix/2453.html

Universal FotoBilder plugin for iPhoto?
Does anyone know of an iPhoto plugin for FotoBilder/Scrapbook that's a Universal or Intel binary?

All the plugins I've found so far (like the Filmgold one and the one

fraserspeirs wrote) are PowerPC only and Rosetta doesn't help with application plugins at all.

Current Music: Akira Yamaoka - Tender Sugar [Silent Hill 4]

Standard Client Integration
Has anyone tried taking one of the open source LJ clients and integrating the photo upload program? I'd imagine this could be something people would enjoy. All I need is to be pointed to some source code (preferably C\C++) and some suggested libraries (also prefer C\C++) and I could probably bang out something rudimentary.

New gallery date
My client is creating a new gallery as it uploads an image. The relevant HTTP headers look like this:

X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery._size: 1
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery.0.GalName: Example
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery.0.ParentID: 61
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery.0.GalSec: 141
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery.0.GalDate: 2006-05-06

The gallery is created successfully, but the gallery date isn't set: when I got to manage/gal?id=xx the date field is empty.

Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Jix release
A new version of Jix is available. All feedback welcome.

Protocol problem
I've been moving over to the newer protocol because of the issue I'm still having with the older one (and because it's about time). It all seems OK except that I'm having an issue loading a picture to a new gallery. In the old protocol I could specify a gallery name and a parent ID to do this, and the documentation for the new protocol suggests that this should still work. So, I send a request like this:

PUT /interface/simple HTTP/1.0
Host: pics.livejournal.com
Connection: close
User-Agent: Jix/0.2b1 FBProtocol2Impl/0.2b1
X-FB-User: banana
X-FB-Mode: UploadPic
X-FB-Auth: crp:[etc]
X-FB-UploadPic.MD5: [whatever]
X-FB-UploadPic.PicSec: 255
X-FB-UploadPic.Meta.Filename: DCP_0002.JPG
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery._size: 4
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery.0.GalName: Artichoke
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery.0.ParentID: 8
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery.0.GalSec: 255
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery.0.GalDate: 2003-09-21
Content-Length: [whatever]
 
[image data]

What I'm expecting is that the picture will go in a new gallery called "Artichoke" whose parent is gallery 8. What actually happens is that I get error code 212 and the message Missing required argument: Must specify either GalName or GalID when adding to gallery.

But I am specifying a GalName, and the gallery has been created, but the picture upload hasn't worked.

Current Mood: confused

Fotobuilder bug?
While doing some things with the fotobuilder Simple interface, I occasionally get the following error (usually as a response to an UploadPic)

Error creating gpic: MogileFS::Backend: socket never became readable at /home/lj/fb/lib/MogileFS.pm line 1466

Anyone else getting this one? From the pattern of when I see it, I'm thinking its possibly a temporary resource starvation problem on the server side, as trying again with the same image shortly afterwards generally works fine.

Modifying image/gallery params
As far as I could undersitand, there is no way to modify existing image or gallery properties - all has to be done during upload/create, am I right?
That's sad if it is so...

Windows XP Publishing Wizard
Attempting to use the Windows XP Publishing Wizard I see that there's no way to specify the security for the pics I'm uploading with this client so the pics get published as Public. Is there an easy way to change the security for all the pics in a specific gallery? Only method I see is to change them one by one via the "Text & Security" link.

[Announce] FotoBilder client for Far Manager
First version of FotoBilder client as plugin to more-or-less known Far file manager, has been released.

You can download it here.
Sorry, no detailed help yet, but I will gladly give any help I can, as well as receive any suggestions or bug reports.

Non-image files
I'm not sure whether to be pleased or alarmed that FotoBilder accepts video uploads. Is this a new feature, a feature that's always been there but I've never noticed, or a bug? If it's not a bug, presumably clients should support it...

Issues with UploadPic
Hi. With the recent increase of photo storage for paid accounts, I've been trying my hand at building a FotoBuilder client in Python. Only, I'm getting back the following response to an UploadPic attempt:

<FBResponse><Error code="210">Unknown argument: ╪ α</Error></FBResponse>

I'm doing a POST request, using urllib2 with Python 2.4 on a win32 box. My headers (in addition to the basic X-FB-Auth/User, which are fine because I can do GetPics/GetGals ok) are as follows:

X-FB-UploadPic.Meta.Filename: ful metal jacket.jpg
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery.0.GalName: collection
X-FB-UploadPic.ImageLength: 43686
X-FB-UploadPic.Gallery._size: 1
X-FB-UploadPic.MD5: 7ec028897f591266bab55ac5baa452e7

The gallery exists, and is publically accesable. I'm not doing any funny stuff with permissions. Ideas anyone?