As of right now, the default path for snapshots is /tmp (which means that they first have to be moved manually and then reimported into the project). It would make much more sense to save them to the current project directory by default. I have tried setting it to ./ but this is the directory where cin was run from (my home folder in this case) and not the project directory.
I opened up a MantisBT issue #147 for this. Below is what it says. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The default path for snapshots/grabshots is /tmp but this can be changed in Settings->Preferences, Interface tab, Snapshot path (which is also the path used for grabshots). However, changing this for each project can be somewhat cumbersome and easily forgotten. On the other hand, *saving them to the current project directory by default would be convenient and desirable.* A partial attempt was made to do this (April 2018 based on a user request at the time) but was backed out. Here is why: 1) What is a project directory??? This is the fundamental question that first needs to be addressed. Not everyone even has a project directory defined but just load files willy-nilly from all different directories. 2) When a question came up from gg on which way to go, I was unable to competently answer that so that is why the effort was stopped. 3) What do you do in this case? What should the program do in another situation? You can still see remnants of the previous effort when you bring up "New project" and see the fields "Create project folder in" and "Project Name". If some basic algorithmic rules can be established ahead of time, gg may be able to implement this. But he needs a set of definitions to cover all of the possibilities. Ideas? Suggestions? for everything is needed and much appreciated so GG can avoid "guessing" what to do in each case. On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 12:14 PM <[email protected]> wrote:
As of right now, the default path for snapshots is /tmp (which means that they first have to be moved manually and then reimported into the project). <https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin>
Another question is what is an "old project"? Is that the directory where the XML is loaded from? Thanks for more input.
I would say default to the directory where cin was run from, otherwise use the current project directory (aka where the xml file is saved). On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 4:04 PM, Phyllis Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
I opened up a MantisBT issue #147 for this. Below is what it says. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The default path for snapshots/grabshots is /tmp but this can be changed in Settings->Preferences, Interface tab, Snapshot path (which is also the path used for grabshots). However, changing this for each project can be somewhat cumbersome and easily forgotten.
On the other hand, *saving them to the current project directory by default would be convenient and desirable.*
A partial attempt was made to do this (April 2018 based on a user request at the time) but was backed out. Here is why: 1) What is a project directory??? This is the fundamental question that first needs to be addressed. Not everyone even has a project directory defined but just load files willy-nilly from all different directories. 2) When a question came up from gg on which way to go, I was unable to competently answer that so that is why the effort was stopped. 3) What do you do in this case? What should the program do in another situation?
You can still see remnants of the previous effort when you bring up "New project" and see the fields "Create project folder in" and "Project Name".
If some basic algorithmic rules can be established ahead of time, gg may be able to implement this. But he needs a set of definitions to cover all of the possibilities. Ideas? Suggestions? for everything is needed and much appreciated so GG can avoid "guessing" what to do in each case.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 12:14 PM <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
As of right now, the default path for snapshots is /tmp (which means that they first have to be moved manually and then reimported into the project). <https://lists.cinelerra-gg.org/mailman/listinfo/cin>
Another question is what is an "old project"? Is that the directory where the XML is loaded from? Thanks for more input.
When I do PrintScreen (screenshot) my Linux distro (UbuntuStudio_16.04) save the screenshot to the "/home/user/Pictures/" folder. I don't know if all Linux distribution have Pictures folder. If yes, then that folder could be good for Cinelerra-gg snapshots, I think. I would like another solution but it is child of of a my old request about Project and files folders structure (and relative path): https://lists.cinelerra-cv.org/pipermail/cinelerra/2018q3/009629.html IgorBeg (Mantis-BT_0000147 https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/bugtracker/view.php?id=147 )
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