X-Face: Page 3 - Usenapp

X-Face

Boffin

I had a look at http://m-einfalt.de/xface_index.php and yes, it looks much more comprehensible. I don't know in which language it is written, but it looks sufficiently similar to algol/coral66/pascal for me to have attempted to disentangle it - if only I were 20 years younger!
Also, it looks self-contained, with all the data tables supplied.
I suspect that it would be much easier to write code to display an X-Face than to encode a picture, but of course I may be wrong in that…

Alan_B

Boffin I don't know of any Usenet clients that actually encode x-faces from an image. I've always used either online tools or graphical manipulation apps such as GraphicConverter to produce an x-face file whose contents can then be imported into the client. Incidentally I notice that Hogwasher displays x-faces, as does the much missed MACSoup.

Boffin

No, i don't think any news app would ever create an X-Face from an image - quite out of its remit. I've always used GraphicConverter, the advantage of which is that the user can see the quality of the X-Face produced. Sometimes what you think will be a good image turns out rubbish!
NewsTap on my iPad also displays X-Faces.

Andre

No worries. Usenapp will support X-Face soon.

Boffin

When is soon? A Year, perhaps? When is the next update planned?

Andre

Contrary to my earlier post, the X-Face feature is not supported. Maybe in the distant future, but not for now.

Boffin

Ah, well. 👎️

Andre

Good news. X-Face will be supported in the upcoming release.

MHP

Excellent!

Snipe

Thank you, Andre.

Boffin

Excellent! I shall look forward to it.
When do you expect “Upcoming” to come up?

Andre

Boffin When do you expect “Upcoming” to come up?

Next week.

Boffin

Really good news. I’ll watch for it!

Andre

Usenapp v1.25 has been released today.

Added: X-Face is now fully supported.
Added: X-Face profile configurable per identity.
Added: Turn system to sleep when done.
Added: Beep sound to auto shutdown/sleep counter.
Removed: Previous X-Face settings.

Boffin

Got it working after a struggle. Old version, you entered X-Face: (string) If you enter this in the new version, you get garbage. Have to leave out the “X-Face: ”.
Pity it wasn’t carried over in the update.
Works fine now - Thank you!

Andre

Boffin You are absolutely right about that, but I would have expected this to be self-evident.

This is fixed in Usenapp v1.25.1

Boffin

Self-evident in retrospect, certainly; but I’m batting for my century, and not as quick as I was.
Thank you for the rapid response!

Alan_B

Many thanks for a most welcome addition 😋

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