Flickr Image Re-Use for OpenOffice.org Demo availlable
Mihai Husleag, July 12th, 2008
Never trust a programmer when he gives you a date for something to be done . Thats what i did in my last article (2 weeks i think i said then) and here we are a month later.
What has be done since my last article :
- right click on an result (image) will show you a popup menu with the available sizes on Flickr server
- left click on a result will insert directly in Writer the image with size medium as default
- once the image is inserted some text will be added beside the image(title , link to the image, license and link to the license)
- i improved searching and the way the image is adding into Writer
- i added a more friendly interface when you want to search over license (similar with advanced search on Flickr website)
- added a previous button to see previous results if needed
- if you insert a image, when you open again the extension the previous search will be done immediately ( on the exact the same position if you used the previous or next buttons)
- about searching : we can have multiple tags (separated by space : ” “) and the relation between them is AND . also the results are ordered by interestingness
- a progress bar was added
- the extension after installation can be found here : Insert \ Picture \ From Flickr …
Some screenshots :
The results from a search by the extension vs Flickr search
Also i would to add that this extension, at this momment, works only in Writer.
Download (right click and save as)
Any suggestions or remarks are greatly appreciated.
Steren
July 13th, 2008 at 07:42 +0000Nice work,
Unfortunately, I couldn’t check it : On Ubuntu Festy, I’ve got this error when I want to add the extension :
“Could not create java implementation loader”
Oshani
August 8th, 2008 at 09:07 +0000Hi Mihai,
Impressive work! Is the source code for this project available publicly somewhere?
Mihai
August 13th, 2008 at 18:19 +0000hello Steren,
it seems the problem is not from extension. It might be connected to this : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/224469/ or http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_trouble_shooting .
sorry for the late response.
Mihai
August 13th, 2008 at 18:30 +0000hello Oshani,
svn+ssh://svn@code.creativecommons.org/svnroot/ccooo/branches/mihai-flickr-soc/
or
http://code.creativecommons.org/viewsvn/ccooo/branches/mihai-flickr-soc/
The code in the following days will suffer some changes and i hope it will look better.
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Chadnan
August 7th, 2009 at 10:03 +0000Thanks a lot. That’s really a great work. I had so much problem while adding image in my blog post. Now I can do it easily, just downloaded.