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Daniel Gasienica replied on March 11, 2010 23:06 to the idea "Rails Paperclip image processor for SeaDragon." in Microsoft Live Labs:

Dustin,

This is exciting! Sascha Hanssen developed a Ruby Deep Zoom library a while ago. I've included it in the OpenZoom project and cleaned up the APIs. Check it out:
http://github.com/openzoom/deepzoom.rb

If your code is more versatile, please share it or let me know if you'd like to join the existing deepzoom.rb development.

Cheers,
Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 10, 2010 23:44 to the question "Getting started in FlashCS4" in OpenZoom:

Paul,

No need to apologize :)
Are you familiar with the concept of a Document Class? Basically, the ActionScript code is not on the timeline anymore but in an external file, e.g. http://github.com/openzoom/sdk/blob/m...

The following is a tutorial on this: http://www.heaveninteractive.com/webl...

Let me know if you need more help.

Cheers,
Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 08, 2010 20:16 to the idea "free plans for Get Satisfaction" in Get Satisfaction:

Hello,

I totally love Get Satisfaction and I'm the first to acknowledge that the existing free plans are a very gracious offer on your behalf.
What I'm trying to address is the lack of options for non-profit, open source projects such as OpenZoom which I created about 18 months ago. These projects help many people around the world without generating a dime of revenue, except for a few generous donations, and therefore will never be a target market for Get Satisfaction.

Thanks to a special agreement I had the pleasure to make use of the Get Satisfaction moderator tools over the past year but this has stopped with the announcement of your new plans. For open source software projects renaming of, setting status for and merging topics are a integral feature, e.g. bug triaging, feature requests, etc. but can only obtained through a paid plan. So far, I've helped 208 people and written 487 replies – it would be a shame if I couldn't do this as effectively in the future.

As I'm fairly certain that your infrastructure and therefore business relies on open source software, e.g. OS (Linux), server (Apache, nginx), languages (PHP, Python), framworks (Ruby on Rails), it would be a nice way to give back by offering a special plan for open source projects & developers.

Examples of companies having special plans for open source projects & developers:

GitHub (Project Hosting)
http://github.com/plans

Napkee (Mockup Tool)
http://www.napkee.com/napkee/free/

FDT (Flash Development Tool)
http://www.fdt.powerflasher.com/devel...

Yours truly,
Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 08, 2010 16:57 to the question "No xml file descriptor with openzoomendo: DZIDescriptor error" in OpenZoom:

Pasquale,

If you're interested in the concepts behind OpenZoom Endo, I suggest you to fork the project and implement the features you suggest and I'll happily let it flow back into the original. After all, that is what open source is all about.

–Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 08, 2010 16:06 to the question "No xml file descriptor with openzoomendo: DZIDescriptor error" in OpenZoom:

Pasquale,

First, I'd appreciate it if your communication was a bit more thoughtful. Second, if you look at the source code of openzoom.py you can see that you can indeed convert standalone DZIs, e.g. line 174.

–Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 08, 2010 15:59 to the question "UIComponent Based Renderers For MultiScaleImage" in OpenZoom:

Hello,

No, I don't have any plans on implementing support for UIComponent anytime soon.

–Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 07, 2010 23:22 to the question "No xml file descriptor with openzoomendo: DZIDescriptor error" in OpenZoom:

«Yes, exactly» what?

–Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 06, 2010 18:10 to the question "No xml file descriptor with openzoomendo: DZIDescriptor error" in OpenZoom:

Pasquale,

Puh, good question, quite some time has passed since I worked on this. If I remember correctly, the only thing missing from the DZI is the information for View Image... and Save Image As.... Do you need that?

Cheers,
Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 05, 2010 18:56 to the question "No xml file descriptor with openzoomendo: DZIDescriptor error" in OpenZoom:

Pasquale,

Glad you've found the solution. FYI, in the latest deepzoom.py library available on GitHub I've renamed DZIDescriptor to DeepZoomImageDescriptor.

Cheers,
Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 05, 2010 18:29 to the question "ImagePyramidRenderer gets squished when position is set via x or y value. Why oh why?" in OpenZoom:

Topher,

Puh, I'm glad you've found the solution. Indeed, it is absolutely crucial that you (and your objects) never leave the scene dimensions, otherwise you'll witness the bugs you've found.
It seems there's a lot I should still blog about but for various reasons I've lately put less energy into OpenZoom.

Let me know if you need further help.

Cheers,
Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 04, 2010 22:49 to the question "ImagePyramidRenderer gets squished when position is set via x or y value. Why oh why?" in OpenZoom:

Topher,

Aaaaaaaah!! The reason I haven't responded to you so far but to most other posts is because yours definitely needs some code time which I hadn't had yet. In fact, after returning from the U.S. I still need to set up my local OpenZoom work environment. Until this is done I can only offer little advice :'(

Question: How do you add your ImagePyramidRenderer children to the MultiScaleContainer?

No matter what, I'm fairly confident we can solve this problem as I've already got something similar to work before, assuming I haven't introduced a new bug since then ;)
http://indupart.ch/en/catalogue-viewe...

Cheers,
Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 04, 2010 00:27 to the question "How to Use OpenZoom for Images on GigaPan.org?" in OpenZoom:

Rajasekaran,

In order to zoom into a certain point, e.g. mouse position, you need to use IViewport.zoomTo and set the second and third parameter accordingly: (0.5, 0.5) for center, (0.0, 1.0) for bottom-left, etc.

–Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 03, 2010 20:27 to the problem "ExternalMouseWheel problem" in OpenZoom:

Mane,

I'm glad it works now although you had to go through all this trouble. I strongly suggest you to use SWFObject and not Adobe's current export scripts for embedding Flash movies. As far as I know, even Adobe will switch to SWFObject in future versions.

Cheers,
Daniel

Daniel Gasienica replied on March 01, 2010 23:19 to the problem "Caching Issue - Clashing Hash Keys" in OpenZoom:

Bredan,

Thanks a lot for reporting this. I believe it took me way longer than you to locate this bug though I have already fixed it a while back:
http://github.com/openzoom/sdk/commit...

Ideally, of course, this would already be included in the latest public release.

Cheers,
Daniel

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Daniel Gasienica replied on February 28, 2010 19:18 to the problem "ExternalMouseWheel problem" in OpenZoom:

Mane,

I checked your code and honestly don't know exactly what's going wrong. One thing you might try is to set allowScriptAccess="always" on both the embed and object in addition to the script.

Cheers,
Daniel

A comment on the question "OpenZoom and IIPImage" in OpenZoom:

Ruven,

This is fantastic! I'd be happy to include your work in the OpenZoom SDK. To protect both of us, I'd need you to sign a Contributor's License Agreement (CLA). Let me know if you're interested and I'll send you the form.
Example: www.sun.com/software/opensource/sca.pdf

Cheers,
Daniel – Daniel Gasienica, on February 28, 2010 19:15

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Daniel Gasienica replied on February 28, 2010 19:09 to the idea "OpenZoom for Dummies" in OpenZoom:

Rico,

Thank you for your suggestions. Since my time is very limited, I have a very simple question: Would you be willing to pay for such extensions? If yes, how much?

Cheers,
Daniel

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