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[help-GIFT] New application to the GIFT
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John Restrepo |
Subject: |
[help-GIFT] New application to the GIFT |
Date: |
Mon, 04 Nov 2002 12:56:05 +0100 |
Hi Everybody,
I am new to the list and to GIFT, so I will probably be posting a lot here
(for help, of course).
I work at the Industrial Design Engineering Faculty at TU-Delft in The
Netherlands. My work is about interactions between designers and
information systems. As part of my research (I am aiming at a PhD), I want
to study the effect of format and media in which information is presented
to designers in the design process etc. Whatever, I am not going to bore
you with all this stuff. The point is that I want to use the gift because
it's query by example capabilities.
I managed to install the gift. Installation was reasonably smooth (except
for some Perl dependencies that have other dependencies, etc. That seemed
to be endless, and I did not want to use CPAN). I have indexed a collection
of about 5000 objects from famous and not so famous designers. The
collection includes bikes, sunglasses, vacuum cleaners, watches, and a long
etc.
I also managed to get the charmer client running. In my collection, perhaps
because of the uniformity of the photos, I have obtained remarkable
results. The indexing of the collection was also surprisingly fast (I was
expecting my PC working on it for 3 days...) In the first attempt I indexed
2000 photos in under three hours (Pentium 4, 1.4 GHz, 256 Mb RAM with Red
Hat 8) and the definitive collection (about 4900 photos) in about 6 hours.
Ok, here the complaints section. I swear I have read the documentation and
the help archives before writing this, and nothing helped.
I managed to have the charmer interface running on the Linux box, displayed
with Mozilla 1.0 and the java2 plugin. It works smoothly (when accessed
from the linux box). I can also serve the applet to the web (making the
changes to the demo files) but it does not connect to the server when
accessed from any other computer. The java window says that they might be a
security problem with the applet. I know something can be done about this
issue because I have tried a demo of the charmer interface somewhere in the
web (perhaps in the viper site???) Some hints on this will be very
appreciated.
Now, the PHP interface seems to be bugging everybody (for what I have read
on the help-archive on this list). I have made all the appropriate changes
to the demo.php and client.php files but still I am unable to connect to
the server. It does basically nothing and displays not complains. You can
try what I have at http://dutodj.io.tudelft.nl/demo/php/demo.php or
/client.php It is frustrating me.... Grrrr.
My configuration is as follows
Gift runs on port 12789
image collection /home/johnrpo/public_html/imagedatabase
I have given the following permissions to the files (just in case that was
the problem)
-rw-rw-rw- 1 johnrpo johnrpo 8333 Nov 1 01:58 gift-config.mrml
-rwxrw-r-- 1 johnrpo johnrpo 291 Oct 31 18:24
gift-embed-perl-modules.pl
drwxr-xr-x 3 johnrpo johnrpo 4096 Oct 31 18:24 gift-indexing-data
-rw-rw-rw- 1 johnrpo johnrpo 5593 Nov 1 13:40
gift-last-in-message.mrml
-rw-rw-rw- 1 johnrpo johnrpo 9460 Nov 1 13:40
gift-last-out-message.mrml
-rw-rw-rw- 1 johnrpo johnrpo 1140685 Nov 4 12:17 gift-log.mrml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 johnrpo johnrpo 12 Nov 4 12:17 gift-port.txt
I have also given 775 attribs to the directory where the php interface is
located.
Help in this issue is HIGHLY required and appreciated.
N.B. There is no version number for the interface, but I downloaded it
last week.
Cheers,
________________________________________
John Restrepo <address@hidden>
TU Delft
Industrieel Ontwerpen
Landbergstraat 15 Kamer 10-4B-39
2628CE Delft
The Netherlands
Phone +31 15 278-5146 Fax +31 15 278-7179
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