Thanks for that, although I think it will have the same issue many applications have which is not noticing new files added after it was started. My other issue is controlling priority (show new images more). <div><br></div>
<div>I have got the script idea nearly completed. Once I'm happy with it and I have documented it I'll post details here with a link to my wiki. This is proving to be an interesting project!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 16 July 2011 15:04, nic dan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dungeons88@hotmail.com">dungeons88@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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David<br><br>Perhaps this would be useful<br><br><a href="http://jstanley.pingerthinger.com/slideshow.html" target="_blank">http://jstanley.pingerthinger.com/slideshow.html</a><br><br>Aitch <br><br><div><hr>Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:02:58 +0100<br>
From: <a href="mailto:david.halliday@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.halliday@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Subject: [Klug-general] Auto Updating Photo Slide Show<div>
<div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>Hi, I have been asked to set up a system to show photographs at a wedding (this can then apply to any other type of event).<div><br></div><div>The features are:</div><div><ul><li>Display a slideshow of images</li>
<li>Allow images to be sent to an email address.</li>
<li>Copy images over by hand.</li><li>Display the email address to send images to.</li><li>Preferentially have some priority control on images so new ones are shown first.</li></ul><div>I don't know if any particular image software for linux exists that can do much of this. But What I was thinking of doing was a light weight window manager and using a shell script with the following logic:</div>
</div><div><ol><li>Check email account, download new messages, extract images and copy to image dir.</li><li>Update a database with new images (sqlite for example from shell script).</li><li>Select image file from database (which contains numbers on priority and times image shown) semi random favouring new images or those with high priority.</li>
<li>Handing the file name to an application (qiv for example) which will then display that image.</li><li>Every 5 images (perhaps we can make this variable) display a nice image saying "send your picture to <a href="mailto:whatever@email.com" target="_blank">whatever@email.com</a>"</li>
</ol><div>What do you guys think?</div></div><div>Am I reinventing the wheel?</div><div>Has anyone set up anything like this before?</div>
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