Comments on: A batch controller for Autostitch

By: Stewart

Stewart — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:37:10 +0000

Hi Tanner,

There are two places where the batch controller looks for the names of dialogs and controls which in English are labeled “Open”. You can specify alternative names via the command-line. For example:

stitch.exe -dialogName “Öffnen” -openName “Öffnen” …

For more info, check this comment which describes how to make it work in French:

http://stewartgreenhill.com/blog/2008/07/22/a-batch-controller-for-autostitch/#comment-4273

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
Stewart

By: Tanner

Tanner — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:53:56 +0000

Hello,

I run a German version of Windows. My “Open” Button is named “Öffnen”. That might be the reasion why it does not work:

Control : Cannot find dialog “Open”

Could you please send me a version works for German? I do not have a C compiler and I do not know C programming…

By the way: “Close” is “Schliessen”

Thanks

By: Stewart

Stewart — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:04:49 +0000

Hi Mihai,

Glad you found the batch processor useful. I like the idea of grouping photos in folders - that would be useful if you take lots of panoramas.

I think the Autostitch algorithms are licensed to various vendors of photo management apps, so I think its probably not in their interests to make the demo version too useful. If the free version could be easily embedded/controlled they would probably not make many sales.

By: Mihai Diac

Mihai Diac — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:02:14 +0000

Hi. I used your solution and extended it with a script to match my needs. Check it out:

http://satov.blogspot.com/2009/12/scripting-stitching-photos-into.html

It works, but still, I don’t like it too much. If autostitch would have the proper command-line arguments, everithing would be much cleaner. Have you tried contacting them ?

Regards.

By: Thierry

Thierry — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:50:30 +0000

Hello I am new to autostich. I am evaluating it.

==> Very imprisessive the batch process.
I am still hesitating to use it because well …. it’s a hack as you said.
But defenatly your batch thing is realling someting that has a wonderfull value for autostich.

Thanks stewart for posting the .exe

By: Stewart

Stewart — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 03:32:28 +0000

@Eric

Thanks Eric, that’s useful to know. Its certainly handy to be able to define Autostitch’s working directory.

Glad to hear you’re able to get some use out of the program.

By: ana

ana — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:23:27 +0000

Hi Stewart

I want run the autostitch using mingw + gcc but i can’t understand the step…
can you help me..
plz… i need ur help…

By: Eric GOMARIN

Eric GOMARIN — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:46:44 +0000

Hi Stewart and all interested in your great job.
I’m french too, as a compatriot already said “nobody’s perfect”, but that isn’t the matter
Thanks for this work and publication.
I found one way to define autostitch’s working directory : you only have to launch it form a directory which contains a file named toto.jpg whatever it contains.
You can then queue panorama jobs on several other directories specifying your source image files with absolute pathnames. The result will be in autostitch working directory. You just need to rename or move the generated pano to the place you wish.
Hoping this will help.
Eric

By: Stewart

Stewart — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:56:41 +0000

OK, I’ve fixed it. closeTime is now implemented, but instead of waiting the entire time, it polls every 2 seconds up to the time (in ms) you specify.

For example, if you want it to wait up to 2 minutes, do:
stitch.exe ... -wait -close -closeTime 120000

To compile the source, you need gcc for windows, which you can get forfree from here: http://www.mingw.org

I think it comes with a simple Windows installer. Otherwise, there are quite a few choices for what to install. I just use the basic mingw gcc compiler plus MSYS, a unix-like shell console. Once you’ve got it installed, just open up the MSYS shell, and do:
gcc stitch.c -o stitch.exe
in the source directory. Its pretty basic code, so should not be hard to modify.

I hope this works for you. Let me know how it goes.

By: Elia Vecellio

Elia Vecellio — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:10:47 +0000

I really appreciate a program to be able to batch process panoramas in Autostitch. However, my use is not to make video panoramas, but simply to queue up multiple panorama jobs so that the computer can process them one-by-one unattended. I am using a batch file to do this (with your stitch.exe in the source image folder). It seems that the -closeTime command-argument is not active within your program, it gets rejected as unknown (even though the documentation says it exists). I noticed it is missing from the source code. The default closeTime is only 2000ms, way too short for Autostitch to generate the preview window, on my machine its 1-2mins (ie 60000-120000ms). Im trying to hardcode the value in and re-compile, but not sure if I will succeed. Maybe you can fix it up for me? Another solution may be to get stitch.exe to simply check, say each 1000ms, if the preview window exists, and only then try to close it. Thanks. Elia