Fwd: [ptx] hugin&autopano Mac OSX: bugs or incompatibilities?

[Ippei UKAI]

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> From: Ippei UKAI <ippei_ukai at mac.com>
> Date: 22 November 2004 08:58:01 GMT
> To: "J. Schneider" <j-schneid at gmx.de>
> Subject: Re: [ptx] hugin&autopano Mac OSX: bugs or incompatibilities?
>
> Hello,
>
> Unfortunately HuginOSX is still in experimental stage. That is, we 
> have something still not fully working.
>
> As to the buttons, I suppose you meant the toolbar buttons, is not 
> working through out the application due to the bug in wxWidgets GUI 
> Library. Consequently Preview window has never tested. (As I have 
> never tried Hugin on other OSes, I didn't know the preview works, 
> actually. Probably It would be nice to have those buttons not in 
> toolbar on Mac, or at least turn on the autopreview by default so that 
> people do not need to edit preferences.)
>
> autopano_old is different from other programs like autopano (No Mac 
> versions) or autopano_sift (some people compiled through Mono on Fink, 
> but you still need to edit .sh file for BSD compatibility reason.). 
> The program has very limited function, and only available from command 
> line. If you have time, autopano_sift may worth trying.
>
> The optimisation problems you pointed out should be fixed on CVS by 
> now (though I thought the last build was already fixed). And, yes, I 
> should update the binary file with the latest CVS. (I will, within few 
> days, as soon as giving up the i18n support.)
>
> Thanks for your comment. It helps me a lot. And hopefully you can 
> redirect this message to your friend as well.
> Ippei
>
>  ->> 鵜飼 一平  (UKAI Ippei)  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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>   Homepage:  http://homepage.mac.com/ippei_ukai/
>
> On 21 Nov 2004, at 17:51, J. Schneider wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Yesterday a friend asked me to show him how to produce panoramas. On 
>> his Mac, I had to use the Mac version of hugin for the first time and 
>> I encountered a few problems that I didn't know from the Windows 
>> version.
>> Are these known issues or do they maybe result in incompatibilities 
>> (with his system - latest OSX-version afaik - or other software or 
>> wrong installation)?
>>
>> - In both the main window and the preview window there are no buttons
>>   visible, except for the number-buttons in the preview window.
>>   (Fortunately I could activate auto update in the preferences, so the
>>   preview window was of some use. But the Fit and Center buttons would
>>   be nice to be usable as well!)
>>   While a window is opened the buttons are visible for a short moment.
>>
>> - In the package was an executable "autopano_old". I told hugin in the
>>   preferences file where to find it, but I got an error message "error
>>   255" when I wanted to use it.
>>
>> - Optimisation for a, b, c does not work. (Yes, start values were
>>   unequal 0)
>>
>> - We wanted to adjust the perspective of a single image (typical case
>>   imitating a shift lens). Therefor we placed 3 vertical control 
>> points
>>   and let hugin optimize. For some reason pitch was not changed. When
>>   the pitch was changed by hand (e.g. by setting the anchor spot), it
>>   didn't change after optimisation either.
>>
>> Any hints, workarounds, fixes, different versions? Or just patience 
>> for next version?
>> Anyway, my friend was delighted.
>>
>> Bye, thanks for any help.
>> Joachim
>>
>