[ANN] Pixory beta.2.1

It can be found here:

www.pixory.org

Pixory is a "personal image server" based on Tapestry.

The major addition in this release is an embedded FTP server which is 
tightly integrated with and controlled by the web interface.

There are a couple of new components in 2.1 that I would be happy to 
contribute to Tapestry is there is any interest. One of them is an 
implementation of a couple of component ideas that Howard mentioned on the 
Wiki. It's a "ShowMessage" component, that displays a message along with an 
icon to indicate the message type. You can see this on the pixory login page 
if you put in invalid information (the "stop" sign). This component is 
extended in 2.1 to implement the "long running response" concept. You can 
set a flag on the component to tell it that a job is running. The component 
will display an icon (in the case of pixory, and animated icon) and will 
perform a meta-refresh to check back with the containing page to see if the 
job is done yet. When the job is done, it automatically displays a 
completion message. You can see this in action on the advanced configuration 
page when hitting the "rebuild index" button.

The other component that might be interesting to others is a generalized 
"MimeContentContainer". This simple component can vend an http response that 
has an arbitrary Mime "content-type" and binary mime content.

This is from the included WHATSNEW file:

Other changes:

    * Pixory now has an embedded FTP server. This server is not simply 
grafted onto the web application as a separate entity. Instead, it is 
intimately connected with, and controlled by, the web interface. This allows 
for easy and secure drag-n-drop file transfers, file deletions, file 
renames, etc., between remote Pixory albums and the local desktop file 
manager.
    * Certain long running tasks now produce a "running indicator", to let 
the user know that the application is working and not simply stalled out.

Fixed bugs:

    * On launch, Pixory now checks to see if another instance of Pixory is 
already running. If so, it launches a browser to connect to the already 
running instance and prints appropriate message on the console.
    * Pixory no longer attempts to launch a browser when run headless.

regards,

Joseph Panico
[email protected]



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