ExifToolGui 6.3.3 - some questions

[herb]

Hello Frank,

I started again to work with ExifToolGUI 6.3.3.0

I have the following 2 questions:
(1)
Why is the popup "Check the GeoCode requirements ..." shown so often.
In principal this hint is useful, but shown so often is annoying for me.
(2)
Question to sorting tags (please look at the attached screenshot).
For me the strings in bold are headers.
So why is tag "YCbCrPositioning" sorted under Artist?
Why is "FlashPixVersion" and others sorted under UserComment?

Thanks for your help in advance
Best regards
herb

[FrankB]

Hello Herb,

1)

• The popup is shown when you have enabled 'ALL GeoCoding', and the ApiKey is empty, or the Throttle is < 1000.
• For your suggestion to show it only once, I will create a GitHub issue.
  Edit: Looking again at the code. It should be changed to 'Show the warning only when GeoCode Provider=GeoCode is selected
• As a workaround you can:
  If you only use the Offline ExifTool provider, set it to 'Enable Offline GeoCoding (ExifTool)'
  If you also want the Webservice, and have to use 'Enable All GeoCoding', fill out an ApiKey and set the Throttle >= 1000
  

2)
You're right that items in Bold should be headers. In this case I think 'Artist' and 'Copyright' should not be marked in Bold. I suspect there are some special characters (Newline, Carrige Return, or Tabs) in the data that trigger this behaviour.
I would like to have look at the data, to see if I can fix this. Could you post a sample, or if you're concerned about privacy send me a PM?
This is how it look with one of me JPG's:

[herb]

Hello Frank,

thanks for your quick reply with the detailed explanations.

At point 2:
Please find attached such an image.
Yes you are right, some special tags, like Artist, UserComment, Copyright or ImageDescription exist inside the image with empty value.
Such images come e.g. from Olympus cameras.
But tags with empty values can also be created by Exiftool itself.

Best regards
herb

[FrankB]

Thanks for your sample, Herb.

I was able to reproduce the error. Will add and issue to Github and think of a fix.

Frank

[herb]

Hello Frank,

I repeated the test with version 6.3.4pre and it works properly.
Tags with empty values are no more displayed as "headers" and
the popup-hint is only displayed when necessary.

Thanks for the corrections.

I have seen another little point, but is it worth to be discussed.
Moving mouse over a tag a popup is given with tag-value. Good feature!
But when mouse is in the area after the latest tag, also this popup comes with value of latest tag.


Best regards
herb

[FrankB]

Thanks for testing and reporting back Herb!

Will be in a next release, unfortunately dont know when that will be. The installer is still falsely accused by MS Defender as a virus, despite reporting several times. Ideally I would like to wait until that is resolved.

But you can keep on using the Pre-Rel. And if  you find anything else dont hesitate.

Frank

P.S. Will look into the popup.