a plugin like this for xy would be great

[little titty]

With this plugin Total Commander can display and edit almost any comments, EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata of image files.
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/iptcwdx.html

[j_c_hallgren]

Hi and a belated welcome to the XY forums also!

Regarding plugins: See Don's feelings on that topic here...http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 730#p37730

If it can be accessed via command line/scripting, then it has potential...which...reading this http://www.exiv2.org/ page (which seems to be the core of the plugin), it seems to support, so...

[little titty]

yeah it looks really good but I am not clever enough with scripting to use this with xy, I can easily use this with TC and it works great. However I would like to switch to XY for other reasons

[j_c_hallgren]

yeah it looks really good but I am not clever enough with scripting to use this with xy, I can easily use this with TC and it works great. However I would like to switch to XY for other reasons

Is there a particular function that you presently use (ideally the most used one) that could be used to test how/if this core plugin could be adapted to use with XY?

And a screen shot of how that function looks/works in TC? I don't have TC so....

BTW, I found this area of their site to a good reference for EXIF & IPTC field documentation: http://www.exiv2.org/metadata.html

[zer0]

XYplorer already has a scripting command called 'property' that you can use to display properties of files. For example

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msg property("WhenTaken", "F:\IMG_1926.JPG");

will give you the EXIF date of when that image was taken. That's display covered. I am sceptical that introduction of an ability to edit those fields will be as easy to edit information in MP3 files. Don would be a better person to answer this side of the wish.

[serendipity]

With this plugin Total Commander can display and edit almost any comments, EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata of image files.
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/iptcwdx.html

One of the best ones i have seen is ExifTool:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

It is a nifty command line tool, which means one can use XY to easily read/write EXIF data. As an experiment I tried two things:

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"Generate Text"
//Save Exif data to text file
  run "cmd /k ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Exiftool\exiftool.exe"" -k -a -u -g1 -w txt <curitem>";

"Add Comment"
//Write the XY's comment to Image's EXIF
  $comment = report ("{Comment}",1);
  run "cmd /k ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Exiftool\exiftool.exe"" -comment=$comment <curitem>";

So, technically you can read/write anything from/to your files using ExifTools + XY scripting.

See list of tags you can read/write:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exi ... index.html

PS: you never reported back to this thread:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 08&start=0

[little titty]

With this plugin Total Commander can display and edit almost any comments, EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata of image files.
http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/iptcwdx.html

One of the best ones i have seen is ExifTool:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

It is a nifty command line tool, which means one can use XY to easily read/write EXIF data. As an experiment I tried two things:

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"Generate Text"
//Save Exif data to text file
  run "cmd /k ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Exiftool\exiftool.exe"" -k -a -u -g1 -w txt <curitem>";

"Add Comment"
//Write the XY's comment to Image's EXIF
  $comment = report ("{Comment}",1);
  run "cmd /k ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Exiftool\exiftool.exe"" -comment=$comment <curitem>";

So, technically you can read/write anything from/to your files using ExifTools + XY scripting.

See list of tags you can read/write:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exi ... index.html

PS: you never reported back to this thread:
http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 08&start=0

Thanks for the info, I stopped reporting my vain attempts at searching comments on the thread you mentioned as it just didnt work, now it does with ver 8.7
I would still like an easier- user friendly way to edit exif info with xyplorer as at the moment I have to switch to a dedicated image prog. and think if would be great to be able to do it within xyplorer, especially as it is already so great at viewing images, the image popup feature is really cool and this makes it better for me than say total commander or another explorer. I just posted this here because it is a "wish list" after all.

[Jeeves]

While I would agree (in a broad sense) that with scripting + *, most things can be accomplished, the cost to make it work in the first place for the layman user can often outweigh most benefits in the first place. As a photographer, I'd agree this would be a handy feature and being that lots of additions to XY seem to be made to support photos, I'm surprised EXIF hasn't been more readily incorporated.

[admin]

While I would agree (in a broad sense) that with scripting + *, most things can be accomplished, the cost to make it work in the first place for the layman user can often outweigh most benefits in the first place. As a photographer, I'd agree this would be a handy feature and being that lots of additions to XY seem to be made to support photos, I'm surprised EXIF hasn't been more readily incorporated.

Changing the EXIF date means changing the file contents -- IMO not something that is expected out of the box from a file manager.

[Jeeves]

Changing the EXIF date means changing the file contents -- IMO not something that is expected out of the box from a file manager.

Agreed. Was just commenting on the frequency of changes relating to photos and that EXIF handling of some type hadn't been more incorporated than scripting. But I believe scripting is by far the iceberg (in that there is much much more below the surface that people don't often see) of XY. Personally, I don't often need to modify EXIF information as I use it for cataloging and notation. Changing it always seemed sketchy to me. IPTC and XMP seem far more likely to be modified. But that may just be me.

I'm a fan of a lightweight, fast yet "swiss-army knife" type file manager.

[admin]

Changing the EXIF date means changing the file contents -- IMO not something that is expected out of the box from a file manager.

Agreed. Was just commenting on the frequency of changes relating to photos and that EXIF handling of some type hadn't been more incorporated than scripting. But I believe scripting is by far the iceberg (in that there is much much more below the surface that people don't often see) of XY. Personally, I don't often need to modify EXIF information as I use it for cataloging and notation. Changing it always seemed sketchy to me. IPTC and XMP seem far more likely to be modified. But that may just be me.

I do photos as well, that's why I added some photo functionality.

I'm a fan of a lightweight, fast yet "swiss-army knife" type file manager.

I hope you are talking about this one.

[Jeeves]

I'm a fan of a lightweight, fast yet "swiss-army knife" type file manager.

I hope you are talking about this one.

Don't know of any other that I hold a lifetime license to ;-)

I'm not a fan of file managers that pack in MB's of libraries and code for minor functionality.