XPilotFoto 0.5 review

XPilotFoto project is a GUI front-end for the pilot-foto utility from the pilot-link package. Requirements: · pilot-link · Pytho

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 10K Developer: Vadim A. Khohlov

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XPilotFoto project is a GUI front-end for the pilot-foto utility from the pilot-link package.

Requirements:
pilot-link
Python
qt
PyQt

Usage:

1. Installing new photos to Palm
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1.1 Import photo to list for installation.
Use the menu "File/Import" for this task.
1.2 Synchronize lists of photos on PC and Palm.
Press the Sync button on Palm and select teh menu "File/Sycn photos list". This creates a list of photos which absent on Palm.
1.3 Install the new photos.
Press the Sync button on Palm and select the menu "File/Install new photos". This installs the
photos from list created on step 1.2 to Palm.

2. Fetching photo from Palm
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2.1 Fetchin photo to temporary directory.
Use the menu "File/Fetch photos from palm". This fetchs the photos from Palm to the XPilotFoto's data directory.
2.2 Export photo from temporary directory to your directory.
Use the menu "File/Export" for copy photo from the XPilotFoto's data directory to you directory.

3. Scaling photos
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You can scale photo to size 160x160 or 320x320 befor installing it to Palm. Use the menu
"File/Scale photo"

4. Configuring
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Use the menu "Options" for configuring XPilotFoto. You can set th port of Palm device.
Also you can set number of attempts of executing comman pilot-foto and delay between this
attempts. This two options is needed for the systems with udev, because on this systems the ttyUSB* device appears after few time of pressing sync button on Palm.