jExifToolGUI: A java/Swing Windows/Linux/MacOS graphical frontend

[MrVideo]

Interesting. Like I said, I keep learning new things about your program. Not exactly the same as starting a CMD terminal.

But, what you have allows users to create a shortcut to the program and then modify the properties to add those command line options

But, thinking about it, nothing stops a user from creating a shortcut to the CMD program in order to start exiftool from there. No different than my starting a cygwin terminal with a more powerful unix shell.

[hvdwolf]

That is right. You can also make so called "droplets" on windows. Create shortcuts to .bat/.cmd scripts on your desktop for exiftool that do specific things. Like a droplet that (re)sets all images dropped onto it to their "DateTimeOriginal", or a droplet that adds your name, copyright notice, whatever to all the images your drop on it.
You can even create a droplet that does renaming when you drop images on top of it. It can ask prefix, suffix, a nice name, or tag selected from the images (if that is a script option).
That is already a very old technique. When I was still using Windows (until 2006 and from 2010-2012 again?), I've used that for many command-line tools.

[hvdwolf]

Version 1.10 released

Releases page | Changelog

[hvdwolf]

I am working on a version 2.0.
Versions so far contained a table (top to bottom) displaying images.
Version 2.0 (not released yet) contains an image grid (wrap left to right).
The table is still used when you don't want to see images (I have users loading 1000 images at a time).

See a preview on Youtube.
I added subtitling as comment as that was the simplest and fastest.

[StarGeek]

Quick question, as I wasn't sure trying to help someone using the GUI.  Under the "Your Commands" tab, is quoting system dependent?

[hvdwolf]

Quick question, as I wasn't sure trying to help someone using the GUI.  Under the "Your Commands" tab, is quoting system dependent?

Yes, it is. The commands are directly given to exiftool, together with the selected images. The (only) advantage to direct exiftool is that you can see the previews and select the images you want to run the command on.
And the exiftool command itself should not be specified.

Linux/macOS: '-FileModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal'
Windows: "-FileModifyDate<DateTimeOriginal"

[StarGeek]

Thanks for the info.

Sorry if this is mentioned elsewhere, I was heading out while after I answered the question and didn't have time to check.

[HemiBob]

I found this app today and it looks like the compare option could be useful.
But I can't get that bit to work.
Starting with a fresh reboot, I open JexiftoolsGUI and load just two images.
If I highlight either one I get the Exif data as expected.
Then I select (highlight) both and it says "Multiple images/files selected - Select appropriate action"
I click on the button to compare selected images and it says
"Preparing image metadata for comparison"
But it never goes any further, even after an hour :-(
Have I missed something?
I'm running jExifToolGUI V1.10.0 and ExifTools is version 12.3.9.0
Thanks Bob

[hvdwolf]

Please let me know on which platform you are using JTG.
Secondly: Depending on the platform you are using you will find a logs folder.

• Windows: in the same folder where you run the exe
• Linux: installed debian deb version: in the user home folder; the imageApp: in the same folder as the AppImage
• MacOS: Inside the user home folder
• universal jar: in the same folder as the jar.

Please zip the log(s) and please attach to a post or a PM. Preferably first set the log to a high level (minimal debug), run it again, and share that log. Then you can set back the log level as a high level is slightly slower but also creates large log files.

[HemiBob]

Many thanks for looking into this, there's no hurry.
I'm on Windows 10 (not sure what JTG is)
Attached is the latest log, hope it helps
Regards, Bob.

[hvdwolf]

Hi all,

I now released version 2.0.0.
I made the version jump from the 10th version in the 1.0 series (1.10.0) due to the reworked thumbnail images grid.

It took quite some time for this release as I have been working overtime for the past 7-8 months for a global project for my "real world job" and couldn't find the motivation to work hard on JTG in my spare free time.

Full changelog

Releases page with current changelog

[hvdwolf]

Hi,

I released a bugfix 2.0.1 which also comes with a new Simplified Translation (partially).

Full changelog

Releases page with current changelog

[jimlad68]

Title: -title<${filename;s/\..*?$//} works on ExifToolGUI but NOT in jExifToolGUI

I am an irregular user of ExifToolGUI and am hoping to move to the newer supported jExifToolGUI.
I have installed (added to a folder) on Windows 10 and placed the latest exiftool.exe in the same folder as jExifToolGUI.exe and preferences show that folder for ExifTool location.
Mostly it works fine from there.

However in "exiftool direct"/"exiftool commands" Tab
[] These work fine on both ExifToolGUI and jExifToolGUI

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-title=titlexxx
-Objectname=object name
[] But these work fine on ExifToolGUI but NOT in jExifToolGUI and gives message "The system cannot find the file specified".

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-title<${filename;s/\..*?$//}
-Objectname<${filename;s/\..*?$//}
Same results on both *.jpg and *.png

Is there a different way of inputting more complex commands in jExifToolGUI?

[StarGeek]

[] But these work fine on ExifToolGUI but NOT in jExifToolGUI and gives message "The system cannot find the file specified".

Code Select Expand

-title<${filename;s/\..*?$//}
-Objectname<${filename;s/\..*?$//}

Try putting quotes around the commands

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"-title<${filename;s/\..*?$//}"
"-Objectname<${filename;s/\..*?$//}"

[jimlad68]

Try putting quotes around the commands

Code Select Expand

"-title<${filename;s/\..*?$//}"
"-Objectname<${filename;s/\..*?$//}"

That worked fine thanks. I had tried quotes, but in the wrong place!