Qtpfsgui

It's been a while, but now a new version of qtpfsgui is in works. Just want to let you know. I have recreated the whole toolchain on my laptop, with new versions of exiv2, fftw, libtiff, ilmbase, andopenexr - and as usual everything is not smooth, but the progress is fine.

Stay tuned!

Modified Qtpfsgui 1.9.1 is up

I think I have corrected the issues with the first OSX version of qtpfsgui 1.9.1. There is a new disk image at sourceforge now, please go grab it and create some nice images :)

Take care

Qtpfsgui 1.9.1 is out!

Hi folks,

I managed to build the 1.9.1 a bit quicker than the 1.9.0 :) Hopefully, the problems with align_image_stack is resolved with this version, I haven't had the time yet to test it myself. User-experiences are welcome!

Take care.

Qtpfsgui 1.9.0 update

Just a short notice - there was a minor problem with the first 1.9.0 dmg I uploaded to sourceforge. A library that is not included on either Tiger or Leopard (as far as i know) by Apple, was dynamically linked into the app. I have now uploaded a new dmg where the libintl library (which was the problem) is statically linked into the qtpfsgui app.

Hope this fix some problems! Userreports are welcome, as always.

Take care.

Qtpfsgui 1.9.0 for Mac

I have managed to sort out most of the issues with Qtpfsgui 1.9.0 on Mac, and have uploaded a diskimage to sourceforge.

Please note:

• This version of qtpfsgui is not universal, you have to use an intel-based Mac.
  
• You should get the latest Qt from trolltech, at least if you run into problems
• I had some issues when testing autoalign features in the binary. I'm thankful for user-reports!

So, go ahead over to sourceforge, and grab the new qtpfsgui, and tell me what it can do for you!

Take care.

Qtpfsgui news!

Hi folks! I have some good news for those of you who awaits the 1.9.0 release of Qtpfsgui for Mac OSX. For a long time I have had problems compiling the dependencies as I have moved to Leopard. Today, I finally got everything running, and will put a diskimage of the app on sourceforge quite soon. I just have to clean up a few things (dcraw and auto align stuff).

There is one caveat, though. I had to let my aim of doing a universal build go. For some reason, I am not able to compile the exiv2 library as a universal binary, which make it impossible for me to create a universal qtpfsgui. So if there still are PPC folks out there, you have to look elsewhere for a qtpfsgui. As I have very little time for this project right now, it might take a while before I look into the universal exiv2 again.

Take care!

Hugin auto-align in Qtpfsgui

I am still working on the interface to the align_image_stack program in Qtpfsgui. The maintainer of the OSX-port of Hugin, Ippei Ukay, has been so kind to provide us with a statically linked version of the program that at least work quite well on my computers. I have some issues with making Qtpfsgui picking up the location of the binary automatically, but for now you can download the binary here, and place it in a directory usually in your PATH environment. The directory /usr/local/bin may be a good place to store it, but if that does not work put it in /usr/bin. Qtpfsgui v.1.8.12 should then be able to find and use the align_image_stack program.

[edit:] Remark, after you download the align_image_stack binary, you need to set the executable bit on the file. Open a Terminal and do 'sudo chmod 755 /usr/bin/align_image_stack' (assuming you placed the file in /usr/bin).

In the future, the Hugin image aligner will be included with Qtpfsgui, so no extra work should be required to use it - I hope!

[edit2:] You may as well download the align_image_stack binary inside a zip-file - by popular request!
Take care

Qtpfsgui news!

Hi, Giuseppe figured out the problem with qtpfsgui 1.8.12 on OSX today, and created a sucessful fix. The 1.8.12 version now compiles and runs just fine on the Mac again.

I have uploaded the new version over at sourceforge, please grab it there. In the process of eliminating sources for errors, I have also upgraded my tool chain a bit. There are therefor now newer versions of most of the dependencies, but since most of these are linked directly into the binary you should not need to do anything. I have however updated my version of Qt. I believe that Qt is sufficiently backwards compatible such that this should not cause a problem, but if you get any problem running the new binary, please update Qt by downloading the newest version from this link. You may also visit http://trolltech.com/developer/downloads/qt/mac where the download-link for the diskimage can be found, as well as sources.

Now that 1.8.12 is out the door, I will look into the alignment functionality that Giuseppe have included, to see what kind of problems that pose on the Mac.

Take care.

Qtpfsgui - new version

Hi guys, Giuseppe have put together a new version of qtpfsgui, and as always, I try to keep up with the version for OSX. As I happen to be at the Apple developer conference, WWDC'07, right now, it's a great time for poking around with this stuff.

So, alas, the 1.8.9 version of qtpfsgui for OSX is out on sourceforge now. Besides that, there is not very much to say, I have not done any special mac-tweaks this time. Check the regular files for general changes.

Again, I do not provide a version with Qt built in, as I have not seen any request for that. Head over to trolltech and get Qt there if you don't have it. I understand that version 4.3 of Qt is out now, but I still put this together with the previous version. I plan to grab the new Qt and check that everything works as it should, but if someone gets ahead of me, please comment on success or failure.

New version of qtpfsgui!

Hi folks, it's been a while. I haven't had to much intersting to blog about lately. I have been busy doing other things instead, like cutting down trees in my garden, compiling software, chopping trees, fixing brakes on my car, more garden stuff, on so on... Anyway:

The 1.8.8 version of qtpfsgui for Mac is out, and I have compiled a version for Mac tonight. You get it in the regular place, our at sourceforge. New with this version on OSX is that the Documentation from the Help menu in the program should work, even if you put the application bundle somewhere else than in /Applications. Giuseppe is also working on internationalization, and I have tried to get this to work on OSX as well. How sucessfully that attempt is remains to be seen. I work on Norwegian translation, by the way, but that is far from finialized.

The last few releases, I have created a package which includes the necessary Qt libs. I have not got any feedback on this, and I really do not know if it is of any use to anybody. I can continue preparing that kind of image, but I don't see the point spending that extra time if no one use it. So, the release I have created this time requires that you already have Qt installed, or that you head our to Trolltech, and grab the Qt libs there. If you want me to continue creating the image with qtpfsgui and Qt bundled, please tell me to do so!

Please, go to sourceforge and grab the new qtpfsgui!

Take care!

Qtpfsgui 1.8.7

I have uploaded a couple of new dmg's of qtpfsgui, v. 1.8.7, to sourceforge now. The one named qtpfsgui.1.8.7.dmg contains only the program itself with core libraries. For this to work, you need to install Qt4 from trolltech. The other version, qtpfsgui.1.8.7.qt.dmg, has Qt4 bundled in, but unfortunately I am not sure how well it works. Feedback is welcome!

Take care, and have fun!

Qtpfsgui 1.8.5 with Qt bundled

Seems like there might be a problem with the qtpfsgui image that have Qt libs bundled in. When using the version without Qt bundled, and a full Qt installed, everything works fine. Using the other version (on another Mac without Qt installed globally) everything works fine until I try to save the tonemapped image. Which does not work.

So, for now, go to trolltech and get the full Qt (Get it here!), and use the qtpfsgui 1.8.5 without Qt.

I report back when I have fixed the problem!

Qtpfsgui 1.8.5 for MacOSX

The new version of qtpfsgui, v.1.8.5, for MacOSX can now be downloaded from the qtpfsgui page at sourceforge. New with this release is that you have a choice. You can either get a small package with just the qtpfsgui program, or you can get a larger package that bundles the necessary Qt libraries. I know there has been some confusion about this in the past.

If you want to run other Qt applications as well, or you already have downloaded and installed Qt v.4 from Trolltech, you can choose the small package, names qtpfsgui.1.8.5.dmg. If you just want to run this, and don't want to care too much about dependencies you can grab qtpfsgui.1.8.5.qt.dmg.

New with this version is also that I have put the manual into the application bundle. Unfortunately, the path to the manual is hardcoded in for now, so it will only work if you place the qtpfsgui application bundle in /Applications. If you do that, you can open the manual directly from the Help menu.

For other, non-Mac related, news for the program, check out the sourceforge projectpage.

Go create some HDRs! And comments are welcome, as always!

Here we go again

What should I say - you know the drill now. It's a new version of qtpfsgui out. The upstream maint. working really hard, so I have to keep up. So, v.1.8.3 of qtpfsgui for mac is out. This time on sourceforge, where it really should be. But sourceforge is a crazy system, I think I did it right, but it is hard to tell.

If sourceforge does not work for you, you may also grab qtpfsgui at my other site

Take care!

An updated dmg of qtpfsgui 1.8.2

I recompiled the qtpfsgui v.1.8.2 today, with debugging info turned off; that is enabled Release mode in Xcode. I also added the icon used on the Linux version, such that it shows up in Finder and Dock. Enabling release mode actually reduced the size of the binary to 1/4 of the original size . I was quite suprised that the difference was that big. The program even feel a lot more snappy.

So, reminder to self: Turn off all the debugging before I throw apps at folks, at least if I don't want them to debug for me!

Go grab from at the usual place. I see if I can get it up on sourceforge as well. But I also realized that 1.8.3 of the app is already out, so there will probably be another update on this before I can call it a day :-)

Take care folks, and let the HDR flow from your Macs!

New version of qtpfsgui!

Hi there,

Giuseppe Rota has released a new version of qtpfsgui over at sourceforge, it's now at version 1.8.2. I have compiled an universal binary, but have not packaged it up yet. Stay tuned, it will appear here, and hopefully at sourceforge as well, tomorrow. For now, adventurous people can grab a zip-file with the app.

The problems with my 1.8.1 on PowerPC was presumable due to some alignment problem, and should be fixed in this version. For those of you who know what I'm taking about, I'm happy to get some reports!

Update 19.03: One user reports that the colorproblem on PowerPC with the 1.8.1 version is fixed (by upstream maintainer, Guiseppe Rota) in this version.

Second update 19.03: The dmg for v.1.8.2 is now up at one of my other places. There seems to be a problem with sourceforge tonight, but as soon as that is sorted out I will make this as a release there. Future releases of the MacOSX version of qtpfsgui will probably only be at sourceforge, but I will continue to comment on it here.

Updated version of the qtpfsgui

Today, I finally manage to build an universal binary qtpfsgui for MacOSX. This time the only external dependency is Qt, at least should be. The program works for me on intel-mac, but I have to test it tomorrow at work where I have access to a power-mac. Also, I have to verify that I actually have removed the external dependencies as much as possible. If you don't have Qt installed, get it from trolltech. The download link to the MacOSX binary may be a bit hard to find, this is a direct link!

Please, if you like to try the program, go grab it here. And if it works for you, I very much like to hear about it!

I will probably write up a bit more on the process of creating all the components as universal binaries, and then some issues on qmake. But now I have to make some dinner for me and the kids.

Update: I have now verified that this binary also run on PowerPC, MacOSX Tiger.

Update on qtpfsgui

In addition to the fink-packages mentioned in my prefious post on the qtpfsgui DMG image I have created, you also need to install the package libexiv2-0.12-shlibs from fink, since I link qtpfsgui dynamically against this lib. If you get exiv2 from some other source, make sure that you enable shared libs.

My First DMG Image

After playing with MacOSX for quite some time now, I finally created my first dmg image today. I am working on creating a universal binary of qtpfsgui, a program for creating HDR images. I have not manage to create the universal binary yet, but I have at least compiled a version that can be used on intel macs.

I will guess more fancy tools for creating dmg's exist these days, but I found a step-by-step walkthrough on the net which did the trick for me. For future reference for myself, and for others stopping by, I
provide the steps here. Most of this is taking place in a terminal window:

# create a dmg image of some suitable size
1>hdiutil create -megabytes 10 qtpfsgui.dmg -layout NONE

# mount, but don't mount!
2>hdid -nomount qtpfsgui.dmg
# record det /dev/disk returned from that command

# create filesystem
3>sudo newfs_hfs -v QTPfsGUI /dev/disk1 #insert correct device

# eject the unmounted image, and re-mount for real
4>hdiutil eject /dev/disk1
5>hdid qtpfsgui.dmg

# Now, use e.g. finder to put some files into the image, and eject it when ok
# then convert to a readonly compressed image (suitable for 10.1+)
6>hdiutil convert -format UDZO qtpfsgui.dmg -o qtpfsgui.1.8.1.dmg

# mount to check that everything is ok
7>hdid qtpfsgui.1.8.1.dmg

That's all it takes to create the image. If you want to test the program for your self, you are free to grab the image. Beware that before you can use the application you have to install some prerequisites: QT4, libexiv2, libfftw3 and libjpeg. QT4 can you get from Trolltech, the creators of QT4, while the easiest way to get the rest is probably from the fink project. Install the fink packages exiv2, fftw3, and libjpeg. After that you should be abel to use qtpfsgui on your intel mac. If not, bug me!

Remark: I am not in any way resonsible for the qtpfsgui program itself, I am just trying to package it up for the Mac. The program itself is the creation of Giuseppe Rota.