Command line, single instance of NeatImage

jstenroos · Post by **jstenroos** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 1:45 pm

Hi,

The command line support is nice, but it would be more usable if it didn't start a new instance of NeatImage every time. Instead, it should just add the new file on the end of the queue.

-Jouni

Post by **NITeam** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 1:53 pm

Well, it does. If you do like this:
>NeatImage.exe image.jpg

Vlad

jstenroos · Post by **jstenroos** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:10 pm

Good, with 2.21 it works, I had 2.1 installed. But I couldn't get it to work if the queue was already processing, nothing happened when I entered a new file from command line? Is it possible to configure so that the queue don't start processing automatically?

Thanks,
Jouni S.

Post by **NITeam** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:16 pm

You can just stop the queue - there is a button in the Filtration queue box on the right.

jstenroos · Post by **jstenroos** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:30 pm

Yes, I'm familiar with that. I guess I just have to open the NeatImage first, stop the queue by hand and then begin to add images to it.

Thanks,
Jouni S.

Post by **NITeam** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:34 pm

Can you give me an example of how you are adding an image?

I suspect a bug in NI and want to reproduce your conditions.

Vlad

jstenroos · Post by **jstenroos** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:53 pm

I'm doing it from another app's (IMatch) script. Example command line could be:

"C:\Program files\Neat Image 2.2 Pro\NeatImage" "d:\pics\work\edit\crw_1464.tif" "d:\pics\edit\crw_1464_filtered.tif" "d:\pics\work\noise profiles\Canon G2 Linear ISO50.dnp"

So, I give everything from the command line except the filtration profile.
(I plan to add that too)

Jouni S.

Post by **NITeam** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 3:24 pm

I think you may run into a trouble with this.

NI does process ALL command line parameters when a single NI instance is used. However, when you start one instance of NI just to send an image to another instance of NI, then it is only the image what is being sent, not other possible command line parameters.

If you want to process a set of images each with specific DNP and NFP then I would advise to compose a batch file with individual commands like the one you have shown above. This batch file will consequetively invoke single instance of NI to process each image with specified profile and preset.

Vlad

jstenroos · Post by **jstenroos** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 3:58 pm

Thanks,

I'll try that.

Sending all parameters would be a nice feature, because the queue window is very informative, telling how much time is left and so on. This batch file method quite effectively breaks it.

How about adding COM-interfaces to NeatImage?

One simple method AddFileToQueue, with the same parameters as command line.
(Photoshop for example works this way, it can be used from other apps)

Jouni S.

Post by **NITeam** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 4:45 pm

Thanks for the suggestion. Of course it would be very good to implement a COM interface as well, but most likely it will not be used by the majority of users.. Photoshop is not a very good example: they support COM while standard old clipboard fuctions do not work (with large images).

Meanwhile, thanks to your input we have found one bug in NI. It is about adding the images to the working queue. We will correct this.

Also, we will look into the issue of handling many parameters. Nobody has asked about this until now but probably it will not be too difficult to add.

Best regards,
Vlad

jstenroos · Post by **jstenroos** » Tue Feb 11, 2003 6:20 pm

Yes, the COM interface would be probably overkill, adding files to the queue can perfectly well be done with command line only.

Anyway, thanks for your help, I hope you get that command line parameter handling to work in upcoming versions. Otherwise, NeatImage has proved to be a real killer!

Jouni S.