[Valentina-studio] Re: Idea on Picture preview

Jochen Peters j.peters at valentina-db.de
Tue Aug 5 10:12:08 CDT 2003


Hi Ruslan,

> Hi Jochen,
>
> I did get few ideas on how go away from this high rows and still be 
> able see
> pictures and their preview:
>
> 1) In the result window you can add pane on left.
>   similar to MS Windows pane on left where is located some info.
>   fileMaker also have such pane.
>   OS X 10.3 will also have such pane.
>
>   This pane of course can be hidden on user request.
>   This pane can be used for different jobs of course.
>   So point is that for CURRENT record this pane can show previes of
>   pictures in the vertical order.
>
Ok - good idea.

> 2) idea 2 adds more flexibility for above.
>
>   Vstudio do have special window (like property window).
>   it can be resized by user as he want.
>   This should be floating pane may be.
>
>   So, when user watch some cursor / table records,
>   that "Picture Preview" simply show ALL PICTURES fields.
>   If table have 10 Picture fields, then we see 10 pictures.
>   And this looks exactly like in iPhoto !!!

You mean ALL PICTURES from ALL records - or only from the current one as
above?

>>   I can resize window to see 2 columns and 5 rows,
>>   or 1 row and 10 columns, or  column and 10 rows.
>>   my choice.
>>
>>
>> Next, this can be tunable.
>> Assume Table have 10 pictures, but user want to see only 2 picture.
>> So why spend time to read all 10 pictures, uncompress them, build 
>> preview?
>> User must be able set up this Picture window to show only selected 
>> fields.
>> This is easy implement.
>>
>> Of course then come to mind -- predefined sets of selected picture 
>> field.
Sounds cool..

>
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Best regards,
Jochen Peters
PIIT GmbH

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