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Hi all,

The Big Pictures is a script to show Albums and Photos from photojournalism websites like Boston.com's "The Big Picture".

Here are some Screenshots:

Photo View


Photo View (the Description appears after 2 secs)


Album View


Loading Screen


Photo or Album Download


Usage:
You can switch the Source (=Website which provides Albums and Photos) with the up- and down-keys.
Switch the Albums of current Source with the left- and right-keys.
To enter an album you have to press the select-key (enter).
To go back to the albums press the back-key.
To hide and show the Info Overlays you have to press the media-info-key (i).
You can download a Photo or Album with the context-key.
You can switch the aspect-ratio of the image-view with the 0 (zero) key.
Also you can start a slideshow of the current selected photoset with the play key (p).

Currently implemented Sources:
- Boston.com: The Big Pictures (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/)
- The Atlantic: In Focus (http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/)
- Sacramento Bee: The Frame (http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/)
- Wallstreetjournal: The Photo Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/photojournal/)
- TotallyCoolPix.com: (http://TotallyCoolPix.com)
- Time.com: LightBox - Closeup (http://lightbox.time.com/category/closeup/?iid=lb-close)

Feedback or feature suggestions are always welcome!

This Addon is available through the official Addon Repository!

Changelog:

Code:

4.1.1 (17.06.2013)
added possibility to hide background image (which results in black background)

4.1.0 (05.05.2013)
added possibility to choose enabled scrapers
updated Translations

4.0.0 (17.03.2013)
New Scraper: NewYorkTimes.com - Lens Blog
New Default Skin (thx Jugger)
Fixed Slideshow on Frodo (press PLAY to start)
Code rewrite
All Scrapers fixed

3.0.5 (18.11.2012)
Fixed: Time.com Lightbox photosets
Updated Translations

3.0.4 (29.07.2012)
Fixed: "The Big Picture"-scraper
Fixed: "Wallstreet Jouarnal"-scraper

3.0.3 (18.04.2012)
Fixed TheSacramentoBee
Fixed Time.com: LightBox
Added Czech Translation (thx to Spike)

3.0.2 (03.03.2012)
Fix for startup error (default->Default)

3.0.0 (03.03.2012)
Complete code rewrite
Added: Slideshow feature (press play)
Added: Plugin-mode for slideshow and screensaver mode
Improved: Go back to the last seen album when returning from a photoset
Improved: Faster cache algorithm (json storage)
Improved: Rewrite of skin including animations and behaviour
Improved: Smoother scrolling between the pictures
Fixed: All unicode/entity problems
Cosmetics: 100% pep8 (python styleguide) conformity
Improved: Debug logging
Added: French translation (thx to stombi)
Added: Dutch translation (thx to apeeters)

2.0.3 (27.01.2012)
Added: New Scraper "TotallyCoolPix.com"
Added: New Scraper "Time.com: LightBox - Closeup"
Changed: How using 'keep' as default aspect-ratio (press 0 or set in settings to change)
Fixed: html codes in title from some "Atlantic in focus" albums
Changed: The spinning loading animation logic
Fixed: ATV2-Remote Keymaps

2.0.2 (04.12.2011)
Fixed import error

2.0.1 (07.11.2011)
New plugin-way for scrapers
Fixed: Wallstreetjournal Scraper
Fixed: Sacramento Bee Scraper
Fixed: Visible-conditions in Eden
Fixed: Back-key in Eden
Code Improvements

2.0.0 (03.06.2011)
Eden release

1.5.0 (03.06.2011)
Added: New Scraper: 'The Atlantic: In Focus'
Removed: Scraper 'Boston.com: The Big Shot' - outdated
Added: Function and Setting for changing the aspect-ratio of the Pictures
Improved: Caching of HTML-Pages (much faster now)
Improved: Rewrote the multi-scraper-logic
Fixed: The Big Pictures Facebook-comment-change Announcement broke scraper
Fixed: The Big Pictures remove Hash at the end of the Description
Changed: The usage help is now replaced by a settings "help"-section
Cosmetic: more pep8 conformity

1.4.2 (23.04.2011)
Fixed: Error with external Python and os.makedirs(cachedir) with cachedir = "special://..."
Fixed TheSacramentoBee wasn't able to get Photos
Fixed WallStreetJournal wasn't able to get Photos

1.4.1 (22.04.2011)
Fixed: boston.com now needs a referer for the photosets
Improved: Better class Inheritance
Cosmetic: pep8 (except line length)
Improved: The german, english and french usage instructions (and shorten them)
Fixed: The Help now appears only on the first album or photoset

1.4.0 (24.03.2011)
Changed: Skin has a new Look - thanks to Jezz_X
Changed: Skin is now animated
Changed: Dedicated Usage-Help-Box (hides if any key is pressed)
Added: French Translation
Changed: Split Sourcename, Albumtitle and Picturetitle for different use in 3rd party Skins
Improved: The toggle "showInfo" stays now in its last state
Improved: Respect pep8 styleguide (except line length...)
Improved: Skin XML-File is now clean

1.3.2 (07.11.2010)
Changed: Don't use 'os.getcwd()'
Improved: author, name, id, version only at one place
Improved: Make it possible for skins to override the scripts skin (thanks to Jeroen)

1.3.1 (19.10.2010)
Fixed: Crash/Hang when using Alaska/Rapier-Skin

1.3.0 (19.10.2010)
Added: The possibility to get albums/images from more than one website (switch source)
Added: New Scraper 'Wallstreetjournal: The Photo Journal'
Added: New Scraper 'Boston.com: The Big Shot'
Added: New Scraper 'Sacramento Bee: The Frame'
Changed: The Layout and content of the help texts
Fixed: TBP-Scraper: Remove the image-number within the description text
Fixed: TBP-Scraper: removed #-sign at the end of the picture
Improved: Changes to the icon.png (more padding)

1.2.0 (10.10.2010)
Ported to be dharma compatible by sphere (with permission of rwparris2)
Added: German Translation
Changed: Addon ported from plugin which called script to native script
Added: New icon.png

1.1.2 (2010)
Released as plugin for camelot by rwparris2

regards,
sphere