Hello NG,
thanks a lot for all your suggestions. Regarding:
< Alex >:
In any case, I'm sorry if what I said led others to think
I was accusing this of bloat. And I'm sad that what was
intended to be praise for the widget has seemed like
accusation; I'm very sorry about that, Andrea.
I didn't take it bad, Alex, no problem I fully agree with you that
adding features to a widget should always be considered carefully. However,
most of the suggestions I got from this kind NG (and not only for
ThumbnailCtrl), were really good ideas (in my opinion, obviously), so I
decided to implement them. Some of them didn't convince me a lot, and I
didn't implement them. In other cases, some suggestions were somewhat
"jarring", like the ones from Franz and Peter about the ComboBox inside
ThumbnailCtrl. Franz woulk like it to be a part of ThumbnailCtrl, while
Peter would like to have it in a separate decorator panel with other
buttons and functionalities. In these cases, while I admit both of the
suggestions are nice ideas, I don't know what to do
< Franz >:
If I choose under more options another zoom factor (say 2),
then press the button "Set Zoom Factor", nothing happens,
(the thumbs stay unchanged).
Mhm, the "Set Zoom Factor" is useful only if you zoom the thumbnails with
the mouse wheel + Ctrl key down or if you hit the "+" and "-" keys. Every
time you do one of these actions, the thumbnails are resized (zoomed in or
out) by a factor *zoomfactor*. Didn't this work? Or have I misunderstood
something?
Or use less lines and make them broader, so the display
is somewhat consistend:test.tif->12 Dec 2005->11:21:49->32.111->(230,197)
-----------------------------------------^^^^^^ (here the total size, not
the thumb size)
or maybe:
test.tif | 12 Dec 2005 | 11:21:49 | 32.111 | (230,197)
I don't know if there is a simple way to do it with wx.ToolTip and
SetToolTip(). wx.ToolTip decides by itself which font to use and how many
characters per line it will display, and I don't know if there is a way to
change this behavior. Because this is what I use at the moment (wx.ToolTip
+ SetToolTip). Using other tip things, like TipWindow, creates some focus
problem in ThumbnailCtrl, while PopupWindow is not supported on all
platforms... I really don't have a claer idea on what to do about this one.
What about using the statusbar (there should be enough place
for displaying also EXIF data), when hovering over a thumbnail
or selecting one?
This is a nice suggestion... I will try to implement some kind of "switch"
that allows the info to be displayed in the TopLevel window statusbar (if
it exists).
<Peter>:
We should push
for more eye candy, even if this might mean a little bit less performance.
What would you rather have? Something that looks like Cornice or something
that looks like Picasa? The highlighting that Andrea put in his control is
a very nice touch but... not enough, we need ,more bling bling! :o)
Peter, could you please elaborate something more about it? Which kind of
"eye-candy" feature would you like to have? I am always in search of new
ideas
Thank you a lot, as usual, for your kind and useful suggestions.
Andrea.
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