Visual Filters for properties

[klownboy]

Hi Don, This has probably came up before but I think it would be a nice addition for us amateur photographers to be able to filter a photo aspect ratio or on a camera model such as: prop:#AspectRatio: 3:2 or prop:CameraModel:*DSC-RX100M5* Of course it wouldn't have to be in the same format as these instant color filers.

Those are the two properties I'm most interested in. I know I can do quick searches to show these particulars in a tab or even the current tab, but doing that results in redrawing the thumbnails when done the first time. I can cache the result, but who needs more thumbnail caches of photos we already have thumbnailed. I could do paperfolders as well but for simple things like this, I really don't want more paperfolders and the additional thumbnail caches. Thanks.

[klownboy]

This one is old and getting moldy, but sure would be nice to have. Any chance you could take a look.

[admin]

It will come soon, probably today...

[klownboy]

That's great! Now I won't have to do what I was doing over here. viewtopic.php?f=5&t=20977#p173011 which was using "inverted" quick search to find images with a certain aspect ratio (i.e., 16:9) and then using a ghost filter to hide those images that weren't 16:9. It'll be great to see only images from a particular camera as well.

[klownboy]

New filters using prop are working great. Thanks. The first place I tried it was in a script using SC filter. You may want to mention that (i.e., working with SC filter) at least in your Help update with new example.

Should this work as visual filter (via manage visual filters) combining {:Image} with prop? "Image Aspect Ratio 16:9" {:Image} AND "prop:#AspectRatio: 16:9". This doesn't seem to work with or without the prop quoting. The prop by itself works fine.

[admin]

That looks like a brand new bug... ... tomorrow...

[jupe]

At the risk of going off-topic, it seems another new bug has been introduced with this new VF implementation, now certain color filters are not working, below is a couple quick fictitious examples that are now non-functional entries in ICF, but the same applies to normal CF's.

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"NOT WORKING" L:name: a*>FFFFFF,B97026
"NOT WORKING EITHER" name f: a*>FFFFFF,B97026

[admin]

Should this work as visual filter (via manage visual filters) combining {:Image} with prop? "Image Aspect Ratio 16:9" {:Image} AND "prop:#AspectRatio: 16:9". This doesn't seem to work with or without the prop quoting. The prop by itself works fine.

Will work in next beta. The correct way is without quoting:
{:Image} AND prop:#AspectRatio: 16:9

FYI, the parser can also handle this (so the various colons (:) are treated correctly):
{:Image} AND prop:#AspectRatio: 16:9 AND size: > 100KB

[admin]

At the risk of going off-topic, it seems another new bug has been introduced with this new VF implementation, now certain color filters are not working, below is a couple quick fictitious examples that are now non-functional entries in ICF, but the same applies to normal CF's.

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"NOT WORKING" L:name: a*>FFFFFF,B97026
"NOT WORKING EITHER" name f: a*>FFFFFF,B97026

Confirmed and fixed in next beta.

[klownboy]

Working great now. Thanks. By the way I would assume that there is probably not much benefit in use of {:Image} along with prop:#AspectRatio: 8:5 when you are in a image folder containing basically nothing but images, but there may be a benefit in a very mixed folder loaded with non-images as well. Is that true? I thought there was something in the Help concerning that point.

The correct way is without quoting:
{:Image} AND prop:#AspectRatio: 16:9

Yes, I figured that but I had incorrectly tried quoting also when testing.

[admin]

Absolutely true! The AND-ed parts are evaluated from left to right, and once a check is FALSE the remaining checks are not even tried. So you should put the faster checks to the left.