JPEG Saver 5.41
Published
This is a smaller update - I had hoped to get more done, but things turned out to be trickier than I had expected. There are a couple of awkward bugs fixed too.
Revisiting the logo item
I'm not good at naming things, and "logo" doesn't really describe what the item does very well at all. I might rename it to "overlay image" or something more useful in a future version.
The actual change I did make in this version was to add support for loading a logo image from a folder of images instead of just using a single image. This uses a similar method to background images, adding the folder to the database to be scanned at startup.
I also moved where the logo image file is loaded from the compositing stage to the processing stage. This means that when compositing happens all the parts should be available already.
This change also means that the compositing stage expects an image to be available. I have added a new “No image” image that is displayed when JPEG Saver cannot load a background or logo image, mainly to provide a more obvious indication that there is a problem with the chosen options.
The bugs
I had two bugs reported to me after the last version - one of them was really easy to fix and the other had me scratching my head for a bit.
The easy one was the resume option not working when the screensaver was exited during folder lock mode. This was because the SQL query that updated the details of the last file displayed was incorrect for folder lock mode, so the resuming function had bad information to work with.
The tricky bug was where image info and list info items were not being displayed when navigating back to the previous file. The improved logging helped me locate the bug, which I found to be caused by files loaded from the cache incorrectly being flagged as video files. That meant that the text items were not being being displayed when composited and instead being left to be displayed later as part of the video rendering that didn't happen because it wasn't a video. Confused? Yes, I was.
Download links
You can download the installer from the downloads page.