Help test a new feature: Photo Uploader

"That means that if you are using Firefox and have logged in previously with IE, the cookies will be sent. If you have never logged in to the site with IE, then when you use Firefox, the login cookies won't be sent."

 

Just tried this. Attempted an upload with Firefox and still got a 403 error. Opened an IE window, logged in, and closed IE. Did another upload attempt with Firefox and was successful.

OK I believe I fixed the login problem. If you were having problems before, it would be a help if you tried again.

Brian - worked okay for me this time with Firefox. Opened IE and logged out, then came back to Firefox and uploaded with no problems or error messages.

Tested in firefox 1.07 and worked just fine. I like it much more than the old way, it is more efficient.<br>

One thing I would like to see in a future version is perhaps a pull down menu allowing someone to place the photos in any folder they'd like.<br>

When uploading multiple photos it would be nice to be able to select for each one where it will be sent.

General comments:

Couple thigns I foudn.

If you select several files; the interface seems to allow you to edit an individual photos caption, but when you start editing the entry disappears.

 

I uploaded a photo which it rejected as not the proper format.

after that point I couldn't no do much of anyhing with the flash program

 

The interface when it comes up is not obvious in terms of how one might use it. Migth do with some text around it saing browse to pick files...

What was the format that it rejected? After it rejects a file, you should be able to browse for other files and upload them. You can keep browsing, selecting files, and uploading them, indefinitely. But if the file isn't JPEG, right now it won't accept it, and the only way you are going to be able to get it accepted is to convert it from whatever it is to JPEG and then upload the converted file.

 

I fixed the problem with the DELETE key. It was a feature that pressing the DELETE or BACKSPACE key would delete the selected file in the list box. But obviously this conflicts with editing the Caption. So I removed the DELETE key listener.

 

I was planning on adding either a help button or some explanatory text around it before it is deployed.

Great new feature, thanks. A couple of points:

1. When you click on the link given some text flashes very briefly then screen goes blank for 2, 3 seconds while the flash loads.

2. When multiple files are present and one is selected, pressing CLEAR removes all the listed files. A delete option that doesn't remove them all would be useful.

Otherwise works great; running Win XP on standard build Dell laptop.

Regards, Duncan

Just tried upload of picture; received a warning message before the 1 FILE SUCCESSFULLY LOADED message; unfortunately, for reasons too long to explain, the message was in German. It was a yes/no dialog box and i think it was saying that it was waiting for something, would i like to terminate the script..; if click on NO all was ok. If click on Yes, no Confirmation box is displayed though the icon goes green and the picture is loaded. i'll tryagain and try to translate it but...

 

2. the sort orders dont work; for both filename & size.

Sort order: before a ca<ption has been edited : works for filename (but not size). after a caption has been edited : does not work for all th^ree columns.

macromedian flash version 8,0,22,0 installed on IE 6.0 WinXP Sp 2

After selecting a file and attempting to upload I received an error message that stated.

0 file uploaded... this was near instantaneous so no file was uploaded.

 

Then a subsquent message that said it was unable to read the image file.

Is there some setting I need to select to allow it to read the fle?

There are three possible classes of errors: "HTTP errors", which come from the photo.net server; "I/O errors", which mean that the Flash Player was not able to read the file off the disk even though you were able to select it; and "Security errors", where you are doing something that Flash Player thinks is breaking out of the sandbox.

 

You didn't give the exact wording of the message in the Alert box, but it definitely wasn't an HTTP error, and it sounds like it could have been an I/O error. In reading forum posts etc on the Flash file upload facility, some people have reported problems uploading files on network shares, unless they are mapped to local drives. My ActionScript code in the Uploader has no way to know that a file might be on a network share, and apparently the fact that you can select a file in the Windows File Select dialog box, does not mean that the Flash upload facility is going to let you upload it.

 

Try moving that file to a local drive, and/or check the permissions on the file.

Brian, I just tried it again on my Mac and your new version works just fine. No more 403

errors. Minor quibble: the closing paren on "Size (KB)" is chopped off. See earlier screen

dump.

 

Will the Uploader be a subscriber-only feature?

 

It might be nice if there was some way to specify more details of the pictures (i.e, location

for all of them) or if the regular web pages would allow a "batch update" of all pictures in a

folder.

Brian,<br>

This feature is simply a wonder!<br>

I've just upload 4 photos (total = 953 Mb) : no problem at all. It's very fast and my photos appear in the rank I've chosen. I'm using W2000 pro SP4 + firefox 1.0.7.<p>

Please note that I have just a wish (<b>a serious one</b>): looks impossible by this way to define a customed copyright (impossible to edit this field after the upload). I'd really like to be able to do it. If I am wrong, please let me know how to do.<p>

I'm not at all disappointed by the gift subscription a generous member made me, I'm really happy to be back.

Thank-you, everybody, for your help. I've decided to call it "beta" now, and put links to it on the "My Portfolio" page, and in the "Folder options" for each folder.

Woohoo! Thanks again, Brian.