Recommended software - jKiwi

[mihai.ile]

Tried running this on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit and it doesn't start (The splash screen comes up, then closes after a few seconds of loading things). Starting from the command line gives me this
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Well from your signature "What works in 32-bit also works in 64-bit. Anyone that says otherwise is a liar " ironically I think that my application doesn't behave the same in 64 bits

The problem is that I don't have any 64bit cpu so is very hard to certify builds on this platform. I'll do a custom build today and post it here so you can test it, if it works I'll try to update the release.

Thank you for the report.

[T-AA]

lol the girlfriend wants to try it so i guess i'll get it.

Oh and congrats on winning the contest

[PartisanEntity]

I was looking for something like this last year for my wife, I think she will have some fun with it Thanks for the effort mihai007.

[mihai.ile]

Tried running this on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit and it doesn't start (The splash screen comes up, then closes after a few seconds of loading things). Starting from the command line gives me this

thomas@hermes:~$ jkiwi 
java.lang.ClassCastException: java/lang/Long
	at utils.GtkStockIconSWT.createImage(GtkStockIconSWT.java:120)
	at utils.StockIcon.getGTKImageData(StockIcon.java:275)
	at utils.StockIcon.getIcon(StockIcon.java:161)
	at core.MainWindow.createSShell(MainWindow.java:227)
	at core.MainWindow.<init>(MainWindow.java:200)
	at core.Loader$Worker$3.run(Loader.java:495)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source)
	at core.Loader.main(Loader.java:235)
Exception in thread "main" org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Failed to execute runnable (java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument not valid)
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Unknown Source)
	at core.Loader.main(Loader.java:235)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Argument not valid
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.SWT.error(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.ImageData.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at org.eclipse.swt.graphics.ImageData.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at utils.GtkStockIconSWT.createImage(GtkStockIconSWT.java:155)
	at utils.StockIcon.getGTKImageData(StockIcon.java:275)
	at utils.StockIcon.getIcon(StockIcon.java:161)
	at core.MainWindow.createSShell(MainWindow.java:227)
	at core.MainWindow.<init>(MainWindow.java:200)
	at core.Loader$Worker$3.run(Loader.java:495)
	at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(Unknown Source)
	... 4 more
thomas@hermes:~$

Thomas could you please try the .jar file I generated and attached here to see if it fixes it?

I think I was doing trying to put three long values into three integers values that are smaller

You just download the and extract the .jar file and put it into /usr/share/jkiwi/bin (replace the original)
Oh I think you need admin rights to do that.
Please post here if this version works...

Thank you.

[tgm4883]

Thomas could you please try the .jar file I generated and attached here to see if it fixes it?

I think I was doing trying to put three long values into three integers values that are smaller

You just download the and extract the .jar file and put it into /usr/share/jkiwi/bin (replace the original)
Oh I think you need admin rights to do that.
Please post here if this version works...

Thank you.

Works great. See what works in i386 does work in amd64

Is this going to be in the repos for 9.04?

[mihai.ile]

Works great. See what works in i386 does work in amd64

Is this going to be in the repos for 9.04?

Glad to hear that!
About the 9.04 repos... I am working on it, I think it can be done

[Scot_Bernard]

yes, after having an image like that (also in that tones of colors because of the algorythms used to change hairstyle color) the next step is to create the highlites by selecting some line from the hair in a new layer and then create a xml file to place it in the application's folder.
I didn't have time to create a simple application that creates the xml files from the images in the right format, right now I only have a command line Java class that just works.

The main problem is creating a png like that one...

Could you tell me what applications/tools you use to make the hairstyles? I want to make new ones. If there is a java class could you also provide it? The application is great, and the only thing that needs to be complete is more hairstyles. Users like me with the guidelines possibly can contribute submitting extra hairstyles to expand the choices.
Thanks, Scot.

[mihai.ile]

Could you tell me what applications/tools you use to make the hairstyles? I want to make new ones. If there is a java class could you also provide it? The application is great, and the only thing that needs to be complete is more hairstyles. Users like me with the guidelines possibly can contribute submitting extra hairstyles to expand the choices.
Thanks, Scot.

Sorry for the late reply, right now I'm writing my thesis so until summer it will be hard to find some time for the project, but as a quick answer:

The tool used for the hair was GIMP (maybe photoshop is easier but don't plan to pay so much for a license).
The workflow:
cut the hair from the photo, make it as blond as possible, cut some shapes in a different image just for the highlites, add some shadow to the hair also in a new image and create the xml.

If you look under the folder containing the xml hairs (resources/hairstyles/) you can see that images inside the XML are encoded in base64, so you could use any base64 code to decode them and save the result as png's and see our images created by gimp.

Just open one xml hair in Firefox for example, copy/paste the base64 code in a new file (abc.txt), use the base64 -d abc.txt > abc.png command in linux to decode it into a png. Repeat the process for the other images in the XML file. To create the XML from images just invert the process.

[binbash]

Is the project dead ? The current version is 0.9.5, released on Set 07, 2007

[Pasdar]

Awesome idea, I'm going to give it a try later today.