<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2008/1/25, Gandalf Lechner <<a href="mailto:gandalf.lechner@esi.ac.at">gandalf.lechner@esi.ac.at</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Am Freitag, 25. Januar 2008 08:16:59 schrieb Gilles Caulier:<br><br>> > > Totally agree. You is not alone to report this viewpoint. There are few<br>> > > pending task to finalize code as well (outside cursor and selection),<br>
> ><br>> > and<br>> ><br>> > > after i will merge selection area with cursor...<br>><br>> Done in svn. Checkout source code and try again. Let's me hear your<br>> viewpoint...<br><br>
Wow, impressive how fast development can be!<br><br>I like the current version better than the last one, since the visual<br>appearance of the two parts of the cursor has been unified. However, the<br>functionality apparently remained unchanged: One still has to use the small<br>
bottom part of the cursor for selections, and the big top part mainly for<br>counting images without filtering the thumbnail view.</blockquote><div><br>no. the cursor position follow selection. This is different.<br><br>I have processed also some optimization during selection. before, selection take a while to recompute all internal date map selected for all decade. Now, only current decade is updated in live and all others are processed when you leave mouse button.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In my opinion, the following behaviour would be perfect:<br><br>- Completely merge the cursor into a single object, </blockquote>
<div><br>This is done but area to process selection is not the full cursor. Only bottom place.<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
so that there is no<br>distinction anymore between the top and bottom part (actually, why not throw<br>away the bottom part).</blockquote><div><br>not agree. navigating around whole dates and selecting date range are 2 different modes that i want to let...<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- Give the complete cursor the behaviour which at the moment only its bottom<br>part has, i.e. use it for selecting date ranges.</blockquote>
<div><br>See before.<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- Either keep the blue line at the bottom to indicate the current selection<br>
range, or give the selected "columns" a different color/look/background.</blockquote><div><br>I have tested to colorize full histogram bar instead rectangle on the bottom. It's wierd when count is very small : bar selected can be not very visible. So, the current behaviours is always fine.<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- Update the image count in the top right according to the number of images<br>currently selected, not the number of images in the column which is currently<br>
occupied by the cursor.</blockquote><div><br>Total count of current slection is given on the status bar.<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
- Update the date in the top left according to the current selection time<br>range, e.g. "2005-2007" or "03.-08.2006"</blockquote><div><br>Text can be too long, especially if sidebar bar size is small...<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">- Maybe provide a vertical axis with a scale for getting a quick idea about<br>the relevant number of images involved.</blockquote>
<div><br>Ah, resizing widget vertically... Perhaps, it's easy to do... I will take a look.<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This is, of course, just my idea about a perfect timelineview ...<br><br>One more thing: The boundaries of the timeline are for some reason chosen to<br>far in the past/future. In my collection, I have images dating from 1977 to<br>
2008. However, the timeline starts from 1971 and ends at 2016. Is this<br>intended?</blockquote><div><br>yes, i use the central position of the widget to limit movement on the left or on the right accordingly with the lower/higher date extracted from Database. I test if lower/higher dates become on center of widget and this can give large border on the letf or on the right. I will study an alternative way later...<br>
<br>Gilles</div></div><br>