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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?little titty wrote: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
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msg property("WhenTaken", "F:\IMG_1926.JPG");One of the best ones i have seen is ExifTool:little titty wrote: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
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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>";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 8.7serendipity wrote:One of the best ones i have seen is ExifTool:little titty wrote: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
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:
So, technically you can read/write anything from/to your files using ExifTools + XY scripting.Code: Select all
"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>";
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
Changing the EXIF date means changing the file contents -- IMO not something that is expected out of the box from a file manager.Jeeves wrote: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.
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.admin wrote:Changing the EXIF date means changing the file contents -- IMO not something that is expected out of the box from a file manager.
I do photos as well, that's why I added some photo functionality.Jeeves wrote: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.admin wrote:Changing the EXIF date means changing the file contents -- IMO not something that is expected out of the box from a file manager.
I hope you are talking about this one.Jeeves wrote:I'm a fan of a lightweight, fast yet "swiss-army knife" type file manager.
Don't know of any other that I hold a lifetime license to ;-)I hope you are talking about this one.Jeeves wrote:I'm a fan of a lightweight, fast yet "swiss-army knife" type file manager.