Pixel Joint Forum: PJ Image Specs v2

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   Hi. I'm the dev of Advanced Image Specs, which introduced gif support and color highliting.

In free time I'm developing new v2 version, which is rewritten from scratch. It works faster, and does not rely on browser in PNG/GIF decoding (because browsers like to corrupt colors in some cases).

And now I need feedback about it. All of it. Regarding design, functionality, suggestion, all that stuff. Bugreports are welcome too, of cource.

This version will, eventually, replace the old one (which will be renamed as `legacy` and will be available on new address).

I want to make it straight - if I'll not recieve any feedback regarding design, it will remain AS IT IS right now, and the ones who don't like it gonna suffer ;)

(the header with progress info is temporary, in release version it'll have another text)

URL to dev version: http://yanrishatum.ru/pj/dev/

You can send feedback to me via PM, this thead or email - krabanek@gmail.com or yanrishatum@gmail.com

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Yanrishatum Midshipman Joined: 19 January 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 21	Topic: PJ Image Specs v2 Posted: 26 February 2016 at 11:45am
	Hi. I'm the dev of Advanced Image Specs, which introduced gif support and color highliting. In free time I'm developing new v2 version, which is rewritten from scratch. It works faster, and does not rely on browser in PNG/GIF decoding (because browsers like to corrupt colors in some cases). And now I need feedback about it. All of it. Regarding design, functionality, suggestion, all that stuff. Bugreports are welcome too, of cource. This version will, eventually, replace the old one (which will be renamed as `legacy` and will be available on new address). I want to make it straight - if I'll not recieve any feedback regarding design, it will remain AS IT IS right now, and the ones who don't like it gonna suffer ;) (the header with progress info is temporary, in release version it'll have another text) URL to dev version: http://yanrishatum.ru/pj/dev/ You can send feedback to me via PM, this thead or email - krabanek@gmail.com or yanrishatum@gmail.com
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eishiya Commander Joined: 11 November 2019 Online Status: Offline Posts: 1099	Posted: 26 February 2016 at 2:23pm
	I feel like most of the "Tools" you have listed on your to-do list would be better off in a separate utility, not as part of the inspector. The two would probably need to share some code, but I think it would be better to make that code a library instead of putting all these disparate featured into one utility. I don't like how the settings panel slides out. It makes me dizzy and the transition effect isn't useful. I'd much rather it always just be somewhere on the page, or instantly appear in its final position if it must be on a toggle. I also don't like how it overlaps the rest of the UI, but can't be moved. I'd rather it be a fixed, non-overlapping part somewhere else in the UI like in the previous version, perhaps with a show/hide toggle if it gets to have a lot of different settings. Having it below the working area seems fine to me, since it's not frequently needed, I don't see why it needs to be made floaty and distracting. I don't like how there's a lot of space wasted for the palette on images with small palettes. I think the palette area should be as small as possible to fit both the palette and the image. The height of .previewCanvas is being set too high. ~~When I try to inspect one of my own pieces (http://pixeljoint.com/files/icons/full/pjchallenge_snowglobe.png), it gets corrupted. Another image I tried seemed fine.~~ Fixed. If the processing takes too long (as it did on the corrupted image, since it read it as having 7k instead of 20-something colours) and I tell the browser to stop running the script, the page has to be reloaded to try again. This seems abnormal to me for the way the interaction with the inspector is structured, I expect things to get initialised if they need to be whenever I press the Inspect button, stopping the execution of one function should not break everything, because this is not a continuous loop kind of program.
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Yanrishatum Midshipman Joined: 19 January 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 21	Posted: 26 February 2016 at 5:11pm
	Ok, made an update. 1. Fixed a bug in PNG decoding (thanks to Eishiya for help) 2. Settings now at the bottom of the page and static. 3. Zoom buttons now configurable, you can have them at top and/or bottom of the canvas. 4. Fixed a few bugs in design regarding flexbox invalidation. 5. Inspection page now don't have fixed size, but can't be bigger that ~1 screen height. *Originally posted by eishiya* I feel like most of the "Tools" you have listed on your to-do list would be better off in a separate utility, not as part of the inspector. The two would probably need to share some code, but I think it would be better to make that code a library instead of putting all these disparate featured into one utility. They most probably will be separated from inspector part, but will be available from same page. *Originally posted by eishiya* I don't like how the settings panel slides out Fixed. *Originally posted by eishiya* I don't like how there's a lot of space wasted for the palette on images with small palettes Probably fixed (if I understood you right). *Originally posted by eishiya* If the processing takes too long (as it did on the corrupted image, since it read it as having 7k instead of 20-something colours) and I tell the browser to stop running the script, the page has to be reloaded to try again. This seems abnormal to me for the way the interaction with the inspector is structured, I expect things to get initialised if they need to be whenever I press the Inspect button, stopping the execution of one function should not break everything, because this is not a continuous loop kind of program. 1. Tool designed to work fast. If it work slow, it's broken ;) 2. It probably breaks because of the way AngularJS works, and I can't do anything about that...
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jalonso Admiral Joined: 12 January 2022 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13537	Posted: 26 February 2016 at 6:06pm
	Omg, this is awesome. I love the color highlighting part
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yrizoud Commander Joined: 03 May 2021 Location: France Online Status: Offline Posts: 342	Posted: 26 February 2016 at 7:03pm
	For GIF animation, the color count measures pixels of the frame in the file, not the resulting image, i'm not sure it's the most useful. For example : http://yanrishatum.ru/pj/dev/?input=http%3A%2F%2Fpixeljoint.com%2Fpixelart%2F85906.htm See frame 18, it is made of a single transparent pixel - this is designed so frame 18 has the same appearance as frame 17.
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Yanrishatum Midshipman Joined: 19 January 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 21	Posted: 26 February 2016 at 7:53pm
	*Originally posted by yrizoud* For GIF animation, the color count measures pixels of the frame in the file, not the resulting image, i'm not sure it's the most useful.For example :http://yanrishatum.ru/pj/dev/?input=http%3A%2F%2Fpixeljoint.com%2Fpixelart%2F85906.htmSee frame 18, it is made of a single transparent pixel - this is designed so frame 18 has the same appearance as frame 17. Updated again. Fixed. Color counting for gifs should be correct now.
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Yanrishatum Midshipman Joined: 19 January 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 21	Posted: 27 February 2016 at 7:01am
	Updated again, added "Palette file" tool. Currently just generates image with palette colors.
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surt Commander Joined: 30 December 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 413	Posted: 27 February 2016 at 9:41pm
	Drag and drop isn't working for me in Chrome on linux, just says "Loading file..." for as long as I my patience will hold out. Same images open fine from query string. It'd be cool if you could also generate data URLs for common palette formats such as Jasc PAL and GPL.

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Yanrishatum Midshipman Joined: 19 January 2016 Online Status: Offline Posts: 21	Posted: 28 February 2016 at 3:14am
	*Originally posted by surt* Drag and drop isn't working for me in Chrome on linux, just says "Loading file..." for as long as I my patience will hold out. Same images open fine from query string. I suppose there's error somewhere in console log. Could you please check it out? (Ctrl + Shift + J opens the console) And there is, send it to me, so I can find out what's wrong. *Originally posted by surt* It'd be cool if you could also generate data URLs for common palette formats such as Jasc PAL and GPL. Yeah, it's in planned features, I just didn't implemented it yet :)
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surt Commander Joined: 30 December 2015 Online Status: Offline Posts: 413	Posted: 01 March 2016 at 12:13am
	Nothing at all in the console.

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Scarodactyl Midshipman Joined: 29 November 2021 Online Status: Offline Posts: 13	Posted: 18 March 2016 at 10:00am
	I love this thing! I definitely have not been taking advantage of the older version, but with this new one I will definitely need to. As an odd note, it works fine in firefox and chrome, but not in my primary browser (Pale Moon, a firefox fork)--it gets stuck on 'analyzing'. I'm not sure why that would be but there you have it.
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