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DennisCTB
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2007-10-02          146434

Ok at long last there are no size limits on the photos you load into your photo Album. You don't have to resize them at all. You just need to use a .jpg file from your camera.

One caveat is that with this new freedom, those of you with dial up connections would be well advised to take lower resolution photos so you won't be there forever uploading a 2 MB file on a phone connection.

On my high speed connection it takes under a minute to load a 2MB picture.

Also after you load the file you will actually see the Photo you just loaded instead of the previous occupant of the picture slot ( ouch that was kinda bad before!).

I hope this helps everyone to start taking advantage of this.

Billy want to try loading again??

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Murf
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2007-10-02          146435

Hopefully this won't swamp the volume on the server either...

I wouldn't want to sacrifice content or participation in favour of pretty pictures, even if their mine. ;)

I do think the addition of pictures into the threads is a great thing though!!


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DennisCTB
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2007-10-02          146438

So far Murf you have the photo of the month!

The pix are resized by me autoMagically as they are loaded to keep them manageable on the server. So you don't get any better resolution if you upload a monster 5MB it will be converted to an image 600px wide and file size of about 100 kb (0.1 MB).

Make sure you are submitting pictures that are at least 600 pixels wide (VGA or better) or else they will get stretched. Hey nothing is perfect;)

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Billy
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2007-10-02          146447

Dennis, it still doesn't work for me.

I get this message but no pic. I've even tried to replace one but it doesn't work either.

Number of Pix 9

Thanks for uploading your photo!
Upload File: Girls' Day Out (Small).jpg

Photo stored in Position 10:
Please wait for it to load .....
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DennisCTB
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2007-10-02          146449

The problem is you have a ' and ( ) in the name and spaces that is making me sick err umm the server. Try using a file name with no spaces or special characters. Normally pix that come out of a camera have names like img_89945.jpg etc. I only programmed this for simple camera type names.

Try renaming it to girlssmall.jpg or such. ....

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2007-10-02          146450

I also added Photo Rotation capability so we don't have to turn our computer LCD sideways to see the pictures correctly ;-) ....

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2007-10-02          146455

OK, Dennis, it looks like it's working now. Now I did rename it to play.jpg before and it still didn't work. Did you happen to do anything else that might have changed that?

By the way, if you want, you can delete pix 10 and 11 since they were just a test on my end.

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DennisCTB
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2007-10-02          146476

I just added the ability to delete posts by number. So to recap the Photo Changes today:

1)You can upload .jpg files of any size and they will be resized autoMagically!

2)You can have TP rotate landscape photos as they are uploaded

3)You can delete photos by number from your album. The delete Photo feature is accessed via myProfile/ Delete Photo sub item

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Murf
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2007-10-04          146531

As much as it sounds like a "man thing" I must admit, the uploading of pictures goes a whole bunch easier when I actually READ and FOLLOW Dennis' excellent instructions.

I cursed at my 'puter for several hours because either it or its friend, the TP website, wouldn't let me change my picture # 16!!!

Low and behold, a simple space in the title of the picture was the culprit!!

Thanks Dennis, that's some awesome new coding at work!

Best of luck. ....

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DennisCTB
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2007-10-09          146692

I improved this so that you can load gif or jpg files and if you try to load something from your PC with an incompatible name like one with spaces and apostrophes etc., it will tell you so in an alert.

Hope that saves time.

And yes please put some pix in your albums. ....

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2007-10-10          146730

I believe I have corrected the coding snaffu that blocked all images from loading. So please try and let me know if you have problems and I will be right on it.

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2007-10-10          146760

I've noted a few changes in the system. When posting a message, it times out and says steps 1 of 3, 2 of 3 ,etc. Dennis, in message 2 of 3 you have a typo - beginning should have a double "N". ....

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2007-10-10          146761

Hi Yooper,

Thanks got that typo! My typing %$&&&&^ is awful I should take a typing class ;-) The purpose of the Step 1,2,3 is to alert posters, particularyly those on dial up, to wait until step 3 before exiting. This prevents the duplicate posts from happening.

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2007-10-17          147052

Dennis, is connection speed or server size the reason we can't add pictures to the posts themselves? ....

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Billy
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2007-10-17          147055

You can! Just put the address to the image in the Picture / Image URL box. ....

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2007-10-17          147056

Okay, maybe I should have asked "how?" ....

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2007-10-17          147057

I edited my earlier message to include the "how". You were probably reading it while I was editing. Sorry about that. ....

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2007-10-17          147058

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2007-10-17          147059

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2007-10-17          147060

If this doesn't work, I give up! ....

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2007-10-17          147061

mobilus, You'll have to either upload a picture to your album or have that picture somewhere else on the net. The URL has to be an Internet address. ....

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2007-10-17          147062

Oh, okay! I'll do that. I learned something today. Thanks! ....

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2007-10-17          147063

You're most welcome. If you need any more help, just ask. ....

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2008-01-22          150550

I understand that part, but where is there a button that lets you brows for pictures? On the bottom it only talks about a Link and then also the home page, the latter I used to point to my home page. But just a picture on the tractor point site next to the message would be nice. I don't see how to do that. Any help apreciated.
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2008-01-22          150553

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I understand that part, but where is there a button that lets you brows for pictures? On the bottom it only talks about a Link and then also the home page, the latter I used to point to my home page. But just a picture on the tractor point site next to the message would be nice. I don't see how to do that. Any help apreciated.Werner

You have a couple of choices:

1) You can paste a link to a picture that is on the web in the link box when you post a message. You need to right click on the web image and get the URL of the image and copy and paste it in the TP link box.

2)You can use your Tractorpoint Album to place pictures from your PC by browsing for images and uploading them.

The link for doing 2) is in the "myProfile" menu item or you can use the link below. Your first picture is your "avatar" displayed with your posts.

You then can use technique 1) to linkthat pix to a particular post

Hope that helps!
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