2013-02-20, 19:18
I use my xbmcbuntu setup to view my picture collection often and have always wanted to see pictures in the order of "date taken". I've explained more here.
I started exploring the xbmc code for the first time and feel that I can contribute to developing this feature. I tried a minor change in windows by modifying CPictureInfoTag::ToSortable() to fill sortable[FieldDate] with the exif date and the overall experience of watching photos of an event is significantly better now. Of course, this is good as a hack but not the best method for production code.
I need your opinion on this. I feel the best option is to create a new "sort method" - may be called "Date Taken". This sort method shall be enabled only for the Pictures view. What do you think? Based on inputs I get here I will try and develop this.
Thanks!
I started exploring the xbmc code for the first time and feel that I can contribute to developing this feature. I tried a minor change in windows by modifying CPictureInfoTag::ToSortable() to fill sortable[FieldDate] with the exif date and the overall experience of watching photos of an event is significantly better now. Of course, this is good as a hack but not the best method for production code.
I need your opinion on this. I feel the best option is to create a new "sort method" - may be called "Date Taken". This sort method shall be enabled only for the Pictures view. What do you think? Based on inputs I get here I will try and develop this.
Thanks!