Cursor Practical Project-03 - Enhanced Image to GIF Conversion Feature

Project Description

Cursor project practice-03

Time spent: Approximately 2 hours

Cursor usage count: 20 times. The core functionality was basically completed in 3 iterations, with 15 attempts wasted on multilingual support.

This project builds upon the original to provide a video-editing-software-like image-to-GIF tool. The interface displays all images in a row, allowing drag-and-drop sorting and individual duration settings (in seconds) for each image. Each image has a caption input area below it, supporting custom text with configurable font, color, size, and position. All captions are automatically added to their corresponding images according to the settings, ultimately generating a GIF animation with personalized captions and timing configurations.

This is very convenient for creating tutorial images. Future considerations include developing a web service for public use.

Result Demonstration

• Operation Interface

• Generated GIF Effect

• 6 images, 26 seconds, 360KB, excellent result.

Prerequisites

• Cursor

  • Version: 1.2.4
  • Cursor rules: Cursor Rules
  • Agent: claude-4-sonnet-thinking

• Overall Process

  • Set cursor rules -> Describe requirements -> Cursor coding -> Git version control -> Debug output

Issue Log

1. Issue 1: Attempting to add multilingual support mid-project caused numerous problems, wasting over 10 interactions.

   • Solution: If multilingual support is needed, it must be considered in the initial architecture. Subsequent modifications become extremely complex.

2. Issue 2: Chinese character support in captions

   • Solution: Take screenshots, submit to cursor with problem description, and it will be resolved.

Usage Insights

1. When using Python, set rules in the environment to first install a virtual environment. Operate within the virtual environment to prevent conflicts.
2. If multilingual support is required, it must be clearly considered in the initial architecture. Subsequent modifications are highly complex.

Project Detailed Steps

1. Organize requirements and add new ones to pj-requirement.md

2. Based on requirements, have cursor begin processing. Generate dates, set up project directory, and build project environment.

3. For the initially implemented features, raise issues and have cursor make modifications.

    1. Add GIF resolution settings.
    2. Is there an issue with the current image compression algorithm? Image quality has degraded significantly.
    3. Caption settings are not taking effect; the font is extremely small.
    4. Process captions first by adding them as watermarks to images before generating the GIF.

4. Use Git for version control

5. Verify and test the results

6. 6 images, 26 seconds, 360KB, excellent result.