Hello Phil,
Hello everybody,
First of all I would like to thank you Phil for that great ExifTool, THANK YOU.
I am an amateur photographer and I use ExifTool for some basic tasks with Automator or the command line directly.
I would like to create a GUI, with some help because I have very very few programming knowledge today.
My goal is to propose a tool where "what we see" has a large part on the screen. Photos side by side, grid of thumbnails, batch processing, and much more.
Now before I start exploring on Xcode, I wonder what files are needed and what is the best way to integrate ExifTool in Xcode:
- for macOS (soon with Sidecar)
- for iPadOS
Is it by executing a process from Xcode like if it was a command line command ? or is there a better and different way ? Probably for iPadOS it will be more difficult ?
If someone here can give me some inputs and directions I would be very happy.
Thank you and have a great day.
MarK
Hi Mark,
The best way to do this is with something like I've written here (https://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/cpp_exiftool/) for C++. This C++ object starts an ExifTool process and keeps it running using the ExifTool -stay_open feature. If you don't use this feature, you will have a startup delay of a fraction of a second each time you run ExifTool.
For iPadOS, you would need to install Perl first, but everything else should be the same.
- Phil
Quote from: Phil Harvey on October 09, 2019, 07:21:21 AM
Hi Mark,
The best way to do this is with something like I've written here (https://owl.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/cpp_exiftool/) for C++. This C++ object starts an ExifTool process and keeps it running using the ExifTool -stay_open feature. If you don't use this feature, you will have a startup delay of a fraction of a second each time you run ExifTool.
For iPadOS, you would need to install Perl first, but everything else should be the same.
- Phil
Dear Phil,
Thank you for your kind answer.
I understood what I had to understand and I already made the first tests and going to implement the
-stay_open feature soon.
It will take some time until I have something serious to show to the world, but of course I will stick around with some questions in the meanwhile.
Wishing you a great end of the week.
Marc