4. Internals

Here, we talk about some IAIA internals. The application is simply just a jar file. When you start the application, a companion file .iaia.properties will be created if it does not already exists. For now, this file only stores the default colors for polygons that are highlighted and those that are not.

shape.color.r=0
shape.color.g=0
shape.color.b=0
shape.highlight.color.r=255
shape.highlight.color.g=0
shape.highlight.color.b=0

The next thing is that when you load up a directory with images (JPGs), a companion directory with the same name but prefixed with a dot . will be created. For example, if we load up the directory /home/super/images then the application will create /home/super/.images. This companion folder stores all the preliminary annotations, which are just a bunch of XML files. DO NOT DELETE this companion directory or you will lose all your annotations. It is highly recommended that you somehow version or backup this companion directory after it has been created.