mikemack wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2020 8:16 pm
Will you be able to recreate the photos library tile wall from WMC like the album covers tile wall in the music library? Everyone that saw that feature loved it. It had a nice action where it would focus in on a single picture and then back out and continue the floating photos tile wall.
I loved it too - definitely one of my favorite features of WMC. At some point in the future, I might be able to recreate this animation. But for now, I can't commit to that feature or even a timeline for attempting to recreate it. But since it is on my wishlist and so popular, rest assured I do plan to try creating it someday. It will be a lot of work (months!!!), hopefully I'm successful.
Anyway, thought I would give a quick progress update. I have the core functionality of the photo viewer working. It will scan a directory for all JPG's and PNG's. It will optionally scan subdirectories too. It will either play alphabetical, or random. When playing random it will only show each photo once. There is a looping option, which works with both alphabetical and random, and in random it will only show each photo once before beginning the next loop. You can control the speed of the slideshow. The photos show while music is playing. And the photos are scaled to your display using the "Fit" option, which means make it as large as possible without cropping, and show black bars on sides or top & bottom if necessary.
Next I plan to add a temporary control panel for the settings, something I can create in a few hours instead of the days it will take me to add them to the real settings menu. It will let you set the folder, subdirectory scanning, and random, looping, and speed parameters.
I also need to add a few basic navigation controls and disable the music screensaver while it is running.
I might have an Alpha version for testing tomorrow.
