full list

- Qt5:
- as a reminder, I am no longer supporting Qt5 with the official builds. if you are on Windows 7 (and I have heard at least one version of Win 8.1), or a similarly old OS, you likely cannot run the official builds now. if this is you, please check the 'running from source' guide in the help, which will allow you to keep updating the program. this process is now easy in Windows and should be similarly easy on other platforms soon
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- misc:
- if you run from source in windows, the program _should_ now have its own taskbar group and use the correct hydrus icon. if you try and pin it to taskbar, it will revert to the 'python' icon, but you can give a shortcut to a batch file an icon and pin that to start
- unfortunately, I have to remove the 'deviant art tag search' downloader this week. they killed the old API we were using, and what remaining open date-paginated search results the site offers is obfuscated and tokenised (no permanent links), more than I could quickly unravel. other downloader creators are welcome to give it a go. if you have a subscription for a da tag search, it will likely complain on its next run. please pause it and try to capture the best artists from that search (until DA kill their free artist api, then who knows what will happen). the oauth/phone app menace marches on
- focus on the thumbnail panel is now preserved whenever it swaps out for another (like when you refresh the search)
- fixed an issue where cancelling service selection on database->c&r->repopulate truncated would create an empty modal message
- fixed a stupid typo in the recently changed server petition counting auto-fixing code
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- importer/exporter sidecar expansion:
- when you import or export files from/to disk, either manually or automatically, the option to pull or send tags to .txt files is now expanded:
- - you can now import or export URLs
- - you can now read or write .json files
- - you can now import from or export to multiple sidecars, and have multiple separate pipelines
- - you can now give sidecar files suffixes, for ".tags.txt" and similar
- - you can now filter and transform all the strings in this pipeline using the powerful String Processor just like in the parsing system
- this affects manual imports, manual exports, import folders, and export folders. instead of smart .txt checkboxes, there's now a button leading to some nested dialogs to customise your 'routers' and, in manual imports, a new page tab in the 'add tags before import' window
- this bones of this system was already working in the background when I introduced it earlier this year, but now all components are exposed
- new export folders now start with the same default metadata migration as set in the last manual file export dialog
- this system will expand in future. most important is to add a 'favourites' system so you can easily save/load your different setups. then adding more content types (e.g. ratings) and .xml. I'd also like to add purely internal file-to-itself datatype transformation (e.g. pulling url:(url) tags and converting them to actual known urls, and vice versa)

- importer/exporter sidecar expansion (boring stuff):
- split the importer/exporter objects into separate importers and exporters. existing router objects will update and split their internal objects safely
- all objects in this system can now describe themselves
- all import/export nodes now produce appropriate example texts for string processing and parsing UI test panels
- Filename Tagging Options objects no longer track neighbouring .txt file importing, and their UI removes it too. Import Folders will suck their old data on update and convert to metadata routers
- wrote a json sidecar importer that takes a parsing formula
- wrote a json sidecar exporter that takes a list of dictionary names to export to. it will edit an existing file
- wrote some ui panels to edit single file metadata migration routers
- wrote some ui panels to edit single file metadata migration importers
- wrote some ui panels to edit single file metadata migration exporters
- updated edit export folder panel to use the new UI. it was already using a full static version of the system behind the scenes; now this is exposed and editable
- updated the manual file export panel to use the new UI. it was using a half version of the system before--now the default options are updated to the new router object and you can create multiple exports
- updated import folders to use the new UI. the filename tagging options no longer handles .txt, it is now on a separate button on the import folder
- updated manual file imports to use the new UI. the 'add tags before import' window now has a 'sidecars' page tab, which lets you edit metadata routers. it updates a path preview list live with what it expects to parse
- a full suite of new unit tests now checks the router, the four import nodes, and the four export nodes thoroughly
- renamed ClientExportingMetadata to ClientMetadataMigration and moved to the metadata module. refactored the importers, exporters, and shared methods to their own files in the same module
- created a gui.metadata module for the new router and metadata import/export widgets and panels
- created a gui.exporting module for the existing export folder and manual export gui code
- reworked some of the core importer/exporter objects and inheritance in clientmetadatamigration
- updated the HDDImport object and creation pipeline to handle metadata routers (as piped from the new sidecars tab)
- when the hdd import or import folder is set to delete original files, now all defined sidecars are deleted along with the media file
- cleaned up a bunch of related metadata importer/exporter code
- cleaned import folder code
- cleaned hdd importer code

next week

I focused on sidecars this week almost exclusively, so I want to catch up on small work that piled up in the meantime. It would be nice to have some more Client API commands too, but we'll see. I can feel myself going down with something, so it might be a slim week.

I was ill this week and am short on work time. I will spend tomorrow doing some more normal work instead of the release.

505 should be on the 9th of November. Thanks everyone!

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I did just commit changes for users who run from source. I updated the easy-setup scripts and wrote variants for Linux and macOS. My test options are limited, so if you are an advanced Linux or macOS user, please do test these new scripts and let me know where things break or are otherwise confusing. The updated help walks through it all: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/running_from_source.html

I have thumbnails hidden by default on new pages, I have to do "pages - management & previevs - show" every time. Any way to keep them shown?

Are you on Qt5? You just see a widely stretched left-side panel, and the thumbnail panel is 0 pixels wide on the right? I am going to investigate a bug where in various situations, the thumbnail panel is disappearing in Qt5. Please let me know if I fix your issue in v505.

I had a great couple of weeks working on a variety of features. I fixed a heap of bugs, made it possible to search for files that have EXIF and other human-readable file metadata, and updated and translated my easy setup scripts, so it is now easy for any user on any platform to run the program from source.

The release should be as normal tomorrow.