XML-creator and Import PapyWizard

[Mike Cowlishaw]

Just a 'nit', perhaps.  I have started using XML-Creator (wow, what a learning curve!) to essentially add 'align-to-grid' capabilities for my spherical over-sea-and-cliffs panoramas.

This has solved the 'no control points in the sea' problems very nicely.

The 'nit' is that when I use File->Import->PapyWizard the folder shown is not the one I just loaded the images from (and where the XML file is) but some earlier-accessed folder -- probably where I last imported from?   In any case, it's terribly easy [I speak from experience :-)] to not notice the number/time change and import the wrong XML.    Any chance of assuming XML load should be from same folder as the images load?

Thanks -- Mike

[PTGui Support]

Hi Mike,

This would have to be optional, as other users may expect or prefer the
current behavior. I'll add this to the wish list.

Kind regards,

Joost Nieuwenhuijse
www.ptgui.com

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[Mike Cowlishaw]

Yes .. it's terribly hard to decide which folder to prompt with .. I used to prompt folder names by filetype (image etc.) and whether used to save or load.  Over the years I've simplified that to separate save or load folders, and I think I'm about to go the final step and simply prompt with 'last used folder'.

No two applications seem to do it exactly the same way... :-)

So maybe your optional behaviour (rather than being for this specific import case) could be a "prompt with last used folder" for all  cases -- hence more widely useful.  [In fact I just added that to my wishlist for MapGazer and PanGazer ... :-).]

[Erik Krause]

Am 03.05.23 um 15:19 schrieb Mike Cowlishaw:

> In any case, it's terribly easy [I speak from experience :-)] to not
> notice the number/time change and import the wrong XML.

Why not simply use speaking filenames?

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Erik Krause

[Mike Cowlishaw]

"speaking filenames" ?

[Erik Krause]

Am 04.05.2023 um 15:18 schrieb Mike Cowlishaw:

> "speaking filenames" ?

or descriptive filenames, filenames that tell you which panorama they
belong to.

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Erik Krause
http://www.erik-krause.de

[Mike Cowlishaw]

I'm not sure that would help much.   Remember that I have dozens of the things from each trip and the panorama names are just numbers anyway, as set by DJI, so easy enough to make a mistake.  Having them in the same directory as the source images should be foolproof (DJI makes a separate directory for each panorama, which works well).

Mike

[Mike Cowlishaw]

PS the XML creator names don't seem to bear any relationship to the panos either, e.g.: HAS-GENERIC-2023-05-03_13h45m21s.xml

On Thursday, 4 May 2023 at 16:32:42 UTC+1 Erik Krause wrote: