Opera extension: Imagus
Monday, January 3, 2011 11:17:22 PM
Updated: February 10, 2013 - v0.9.5
The extension is intended to complement image features that (I think) is missing from Opera by default or give features that are just simply useful. The original idea was to implement as many image related features as it's possible. Read on to find out for what the extension is capable of...By the way, this project is still under development, it doesn't contain serious bugs, but use with caution. The features aren't in final state, so their functionality may change, which means that after an update the extension maybe won't work properly or absolutely not.
Install extension Opera 11.60-12.15 To install the extension on Opera 12.10+, you have to add the following URL to the trusted sites (O-menu / Settings / Preferences (Ctrl+F12) / Advanced tab / Security / Trusted Websites):
http://files.myopera.com/Deathamns/extension/imagus/Or download the extension file and drop it into the browser window.
Viewer
Replaces the browser's default image resizer to a more customizable version. For instance, it's possible to set the initial sizing mode or disable the resizing totally, it can detect if an image has higher resolution, adds possibility for rotation, options for changing background color or image border, zooming to a selected area or zooming with mouse wheel, and more...Hover zoom
Enlarges thumbnails and linked images (or even linked thumbnails) into a popup with just a mouse hover.As well as the Viewer, it's also fairly customizable with some extra features, such as full-zoom which allows you to view the image with original size in the same tab, rotation or it can load image albums as well.
Tools
This section contains global features or features that have less options.-
Shortcuts - they can be used both on Viewer and Hover zoom
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Opening images - many ways for opening images from web pages (e.g., background images)
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Send image to... - it sends the image address to an online service (e.g., reverse image search, image editor, gif frame extractor...)
New service can be added in preferences (one per line).
Format: "[+]Name|search engine's URL". In the service URL is placed the image address with the %url variable.
Example: TinEye|http://www.tineye.com/search?url=%url
If you put a "+" sign before the name (e.g., "+TinEye"), then it means that the service will be used when the shortcut is used. Multiple entries can be enabled, then all of them will be opened.
Sieve
This is a set of rules which are helping the extension to find the larger images.The rules are based on regular expressions, JavaScript and a bit of HTML.
Gallery
This is something like a bookmark for images. It stores only the image address with a thumbnail, and if possible, then one or two source link. The "Source", which is the address of the page where you've seen the image, and the "Target", which is the address of the link (if it wasn't the same as the zoomed image address).When an image is opened or "hoverzoomed", then pressing the shortcut (G by default) will add it to the list without any questions. Shift + G will prompt for labels. Deleting images from the list: Ctrl + Right click on the thumbnail cell or Ctrl + Click to select some and the minus button from the button-list. Shift + Right click on a cell to edit the labels.
Grants
At Grants you can tell on which sites can the extension work.It's also possible to block just some Sieve rules.
Syntax: grant operator (optionally followed by rules separated with commas) colon address
(!|!!|~|~~)[rule1,rule2,...]:(*|string|regular expression)
Also there is possibility to add comment lines, simply by starting the line with a ; (semicolon).
When you double the grant operator (! or ~), then it means that you want use regular expression in the URL. "*" means everything.
Example for blocking on all sites:
!:*Blocking all sites except opera.com (actually it will allow any URL that contains the "opera.com" string, and yes, the order matters):
!:* ~:opera.comTo block a few sites:
!:http://www.google.com !:opera.com !!:^ftp://Blocking on all Google sites, except German and French:
!:http://www.google.com/ ~~:^http://www\.google\.(?:de|fr)Allowing only the "MyOpera" and "LinkedImages" rules here on my.opera.com:
~#MyOpera,LinkedImages:my.opera.com
For the extension's icon thanks goes to http://esk6a.deviantart.com/
Known Issues
# (vw) Rotated image has incorrect position# (vw) When larger image was opened, going back won't properly load the smaller one
# (vw) "res" cannot be handled if it is a function
# (lst) Thumbnails are not loading when high-res mode disabled, and the specific rules support it
# (lst) Sometimes the last thumbnails are off the screen
# (hz) Only one SVG can be loaded in the popup at a given session (DSK-376698)
# (hz) SVGs disappear sometimes when zooming a bit deeper (seems it's an Opera bug)
# (hz) Preload doesn't work (only) for high-res images
# (hz) Preload on hover doesn't work if there is more than one possible image to load
# (hz) Hiding image dimensions in caption hides the whole caption
# (hz) Sometimes the image blinks once when it started to load, especially when interlaced loading is on (but If I have to guess, this is a bug in Opera, again)
Some Opera related issues.
v0.9.5 - February 10, 2013 | Update! | Changelog
Fixes for the problems introduced in the previous release, also some other improvements, which are listed in the changelog. There was a modification, that broke some of the rules, but updating the Sieve will solve the problem.v0.9.4 - January 20, 2013
Read the changelog, because this time there is not much to talk about. If you don't understand something, feel free to ask.Don't forget, there is no auto-update anymore, you have to click the "Update!" or "Install extension" link above. And, as usually, updating the Sieve is recommended too.
In addition, a translation management system was made in the background, so if you're interested in to translate the extension to your language, drop me an email (my username at myopera dot com).
v0.9.3 - September 09, 2012
From this version the extension won't be automatically updated by the browser. However, the notification about new version will appear on the toolbar icon (the new version number with green background) as did before.This means that next time you have to manually update the extension, coming here and clicking on the "Update!" link above (you can click on "Install extension" at the top, it's the same).
It's recommended to update, since if you don't, you won't get any notification about future releases.
v0.9.2 - August 17, 2012
!! As in version 0.9, you have to update the Sieve again (Preferences / Sieve / the update button - double arrow pointing down). It must be done, otherwise most of the features of the extension won't work.- From now, every "link" and "img" parameter must start without the https?:// protocol string and the www sub-domain (if present). This applies only to http.
The reason of this to skip writing every time the protocol, and the www, because they are very common, almost every rule starts with that.
For example if the URL is "http://www.opera.com/image" (we assume that the site has a secure connection, and it works also without www), then the older version's rule would look like this:link: ^(https?//(www\.)?opera\.com/image) to: $1
In the new version, the URL first will be converted to "opera.com/image" and this will be checked against the regexp, so now the rule should be written as:link: ^(opera\.com/image) to: $1
But the result will be the same; "http://www.opera.com/image" (returned by "to: $1"), because what is removed first, it will be added later. However, sometimes you want to prevent this behavior (adding what is removed), therefore if the replacement starts with http, then the script won't prepend the removed string.
There may be cases when the URL will work with "www" and some other sub-domain. E.g., "http://www.opera.com" and "http://test.opera.com". In that case the following expression will match only "http://test.opera.com", but not the URL with "www":link: ^test\.opera\.com
Since the www is removed, and now the URL can be "opera.com" or "test.opera.com", the correct expression would be:link: ^(?:test\.)?opera\.com
Besides these, from now, the "to" parameter can have only one function, and that function can return multiple results joined by new lines. BUT, if you use this method, the full URL must be matched, and full URL must be returned. If "to" is not a function, these restrictions have no significance.
Something to play with...
The following stuff is experimental, they future and exact functionality is not known yet.
Screen capture (Opera 12.10+)
Since this sounds like an image related stuff, probably this will be implemented somehow into the extension. Actually, it's already working pretty well, however the only thing you can do with the captured image is to save.
So, how does it work?
Go to a random web-page, and press the shortcut (Alt+Shift+T by default, change at Prefs/Tools/Shortcuts) to capture the visible content or Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T to capture the entire page.
Opera can capture only the visible content, means, that the extension must jump all over the page to take shots of every part, which will seem a bit weird, so don't panic, just wait until a new page opens with the captured image (actually canvas), where you can choose the output format (jpeg or png), and then save as.
It works on all pages where an extension can work (text, html, xml, svg (of course svg can be saved in Opera already, which is the recommended method)).
There are sites that use infinite scrolling, or maybe you use an extension for that purpose (AutoPatchWork, AutoPager), but when you taking a screen-shot, probably you don't want to end up with a kilometer-long image, and that's why the extension won't go further than the page size was at the moment when the capture started.
There are floating elements that are always at the same place on the screen. Normally they would be printed on every frame, but the extension tires to handle them, but it's pretty hard to deal with them correctly, so maybe you won't always get the result what you want.
Other problems you may face with screen capturing:
- plugin-content can't be captured
- it can be used only when page-size is 100%
- you may get interesting results with enabled HWA
- on captured image text doesn't have sub-pixel rendering
- use "Fit to Width" to hide horizontal scrollbars if they're not needed
- dimensions of dynamic pages can change, which will result a somewhat broken image
- you may first scroll down the page to force the dynamically generated content to load
- "default" is the suggested filename when saving (since, sadly, there is no Opera API for saving files)
- the page is re-rendered before capture, so you won't get what you actually see (example)
- it may use pretty much memory on large pages (too long pages cannot be captured (a blank canvas will be shown), since Opera uses memory limit)
Extracting frames from animated images
As the title says, it can extract frames from APNG or GIF images, also play them slower/faster forward/backward.
Unfortunately, Opera doesn't use the global cache for extensions, so the image will be downloaded again, which will take a couple of moments for a few MB image (at the moment there is a size limit, maximum 15MB allowed).
To try out, add a new line to the "Send image to..." list at Preferences / Tools:
frames|anim.html?#%urlOr add this if you want to be able to save the frames (slower) (added by default):
frames|anim.html?img#%url







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Alen Pendićsenja1 # Friday, August 17, 2012 5:22:16 PM
Originally posted by Optidragon:
You can download from changelog -> 0.9.2
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Friday, August 17, 2012 6:16:53 PM
Deathamns # Friday, August 17, 2012 7:01:41 PM
Originally posted by Optidragon:
Sorry, it's fixed now.Originally posted by senja1:
Keep in mind that if you download from the archive, then you won't get auto-updated.So, if someone downloaded from there, I recommend to re-install it from the main link.
Unregistered user # Friday, August 17, 2012 8:11:03 PM
Unregistered user # Friday, August 17, 2012 10:04:17 PM
metude # Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:11:01 AM
DoTheEvo # Saturday, August 18, 2012 1:34:52 AM
allouh # Saturday, August 18, 2012 3:51:13 AM
Originally posted by DoTheEvo:
There is long-press right click on the image or thumbnail for this.
РафизRafiz1990 # Saturday, August 18, 2012 5:45:46 AM
Unregistered user # Saturday, August 18, 2012 9:26:00 AM
Deathamns # Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:28:33 PM
Originally posted by anonymous:
I forgot to include known issues....Originally posted by anonymous:
Preferences / Hz / Shortcuts at the bottom (Shift + C by default).Originally posted by metude:
I'm not sure that these are factors, but we can try out. We can swap PCs for a while, and we'll see.DoTheEvo
The method that allouh mentioned isn't good?maganz
It's disabled by default. Enable at Preferences / Tools / Opening images.Unregistered user # Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:58:10 PM
Unregistered user # Saturday, August 18, 2012 2:12:07 PM
Unregistered user # Sunday, August 19, 2012 3:03:44 AM
Deathamns # Sunday, August 19, 2012 4:22:50 AM
allouh # Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:57:34 AM
It would be more convenient to use this button instead the original "stop" button?
Deathamns # Sunday, August 19, 2012 9:34:38 AM
Unregistered user # Sunday, August 19, 2012 8:24:14 PM
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Monday, August 20, 2012 4:54:29 AM
Originally posted by Deathamns:
Enough in each rule to remove http://?
There many rules with http
Google Images
^https?://(?:www|images|encrypted)\.google\.[^/]+/imgres\?(?:[^=]+=[^&]+&)*?imgurl=([^&]+).*
i've removed https?://, but rule not working
Amazon
^(https?://(?:images\.|(?:images-na\.ssl-|(?![gz]-)[^.]+\.)images-)amazon\.com/images/[^/]+/[^.]+\.).+\.
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Monday, August 20, 2012 4:58:32 AM
Deathamns # Monday, August 20, 2012 5:12:12 AM
And true, you have to wait 3 seconds to see the result.
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Monday, August 20, 2012 9:48:38 AM
Deathamns # Monday, August 20, 2012 10:58:01 AM
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Monday, August 20, 2012 11:14:26 AM
Originally posted by Deathamns:
yeap
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inDigazzZAnuarSh # Monday, August 20, 2012 11:35:25 AM
Originally posted by AnuarSh:
What is this? You've already took a file?
Deathamns # Monday, August 20, 2012 11:39:53 AM
Deathamns # Monday, August 20, 2012 11:52:48 AM
Edit: On some sites there is a limit how fast you can open a page. If you use automatic preloading, then the site probably will ban you, and you can't open pages...
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Monday, August 20, 2012 11:56:41 AM
i told about page with search results, not page with image
try to search and hover over first image
Deathamns # Monday, August 20, 2012 12:06:09 PM
Originally posted by AnuarSh:
I know, but the extension will parse the page that holds the image, doesn't matter where you try to view them.At the moment the server is unavailable for me (500 - Internal Server Error), and probably this was your problem too.
After I finished writing this comment, it's available again.
Unregistered user # Monday, August 20, 2012 6:22:42 PM
Farow # Monday, August 20, 2012 10:04:54 PM
Edit: after a bit of browsing it seems to me that it works on links over images but not plain links.
Edit edit: actually, I'm not so sure anymore. It's kind of weird.
DoTheEvo # Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:18:40 AM
Originally posted by Deathamns:
Didn't know about it, but I would consider scrolling to be a slightly better choice, since it doesn't need waiting and its something more intuitive than a long press.
Is there also already a way to get out of the full-zoom mode with the mouse only? Should be, maybe just some close [X] top right corner or clicking the caption, or some type of clicking outside...
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Tuesday, August 21, 2012 3:25:41 AM
Originally posted by Deathamns:
No, update the rules (again) and wallbase earned.
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Tuesday, August 21, 2012 6:28:20 AM
Screenshoting is good, but the Image Lister is better (especially not just for pictures from the same album, but all the pictures on the page.)
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:04:57 AM
I see the Image Lister's indicator, but the arrow "Left / Right" does not work.
and a bug (i think)
1. go to .gifs - funny, animated gifs for your viewing pleasure
2. Hover over any image and wait till it fully loaded
3. Hover over next image and when it will STARTS loading move cursor on image that was loaded previously.
Loading of second image STOPS till next hover.
Deathamns # Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:33:59 AM
Originally posted by anonymous:
Because of the new changes, this is not possible anymore (but I mentioned it, probably you haven't read my comments above in the post). And since, it's not really related to images, probably it won't be implemented as an individual feature.Farow
I updated the known issues (preload on hover doesn't work with rules that have to try to load multiple images).DoTheEvo
I want to keep scrolling for quick hiding. Since 0.9 there is an option that will hide the full-zoomed popup on click.AnuarSh
This version was meant to be released around the end of September, but I knew that I won't have enough time for development, so I decided to throw out what was already done. There is no concrete pattern that I follow, but for the next update it will be two months at least. If you are using Marlin, then probably that's the problem, they did something with key handling, and half of them doesn't work with JavaScript events. Although Space and Shift+Space does. And the last one is not a bug, I mentioned in the release notes above, that this is a new behavior.Unregistered user # Tuesday, August 21, 2012 11:51:26 AM
Deathamns # Tuesday, August 21, 2012 1:00:26 PM
Unregistered user # Tuesday, August 21, 2012 3:43:46 PM
metude # Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:01:18 PM
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Wednesday, August 22, 2012 3:41:28 AM
Originally posted by metude:
Which site?
DoTheEvo # Wednesday, August 22, 2012 5:47:50 AM
Originally posted by anonymous:
maybe this as alternative? http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/83584Originally posted by Deathamns:
Ah, good. I feel retarded.metude # Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:27:32 AM
Originally posted by AnuarSh:
Wallbase.
inDigazzZAnuarSh # Wednesday, August 22, 2012 7:44:28 AM
Originally posted by metude:
Wallbase starts working after updating Sieve
http://my.opera.com/Deathamns/blog/show.dml/24181412?startidx=650#comment95050322
alekksander # Wednesday, August 22, 2012 2:11:35 PM
Deathamns # Wednesday, August 22, 2012 4:06:40 PM
Unregistered user # Thursday, August 23, 2012 9:53:46 AM
Durian ZheitkDurianZheitk # Friday, August 24, 2012 7:10:59 PM
b) how about pre-load to albums? pre-loading the next (or 2 next) pics will make it more fluent/pleasant while using the arrow keys...
edit1: humm, by the way, I would like to learn how to add custom rules to some sites, can anyone help me?
edit2: c) and custom load~animation for different the file types?
the last thing (I swear ñ_ñ) why "Draw outline around zoom-able objects" has never worked for me? It draws the line just for a moment while hovering it...
Deathamns # Saturday, August 25, 2012 12:19:23 PM
b) It's intentional that pre-loading is not available there, but it will be in the future.
edit1: Here are the basics, but there is no detailed tutorial yet.
c) I don't see the importance of this, also the file type can be guessed only from the extension of the image, which is not always the same as the original type (e.g., for imgur images it's irrelevant what extension you write, it will load the image anyway, and there are lots of examples when the file extension is not present).
last thing: That is the point of that option. It's just gives a hint what can be enlarged, so you don't have to wait the display delay (of course it has sense only when you use delay, which is 0.5s by default).
Durian ZheitkDurianZheitk # Saturday, August 25, 2012 7:28:41 PM
Another thing: the shorcuts in the "Tools" sections (the right-click related) have never worked for me ¿It's a Opera versión issue (12.01) or I just don't understand how it works? (I will test it later)