[KPhotoAlbum] RFC: New design for Date/Time part of annotation dialog, autorange for datebar

[Joe]

Great. Thanks.

Joe

On 04/17/2013 06:00 PM, Johannes Zarl wrote:
> Ah, ok. I thought you meant something different (selecting images by date 
> without restricting the view to those).
>
> I'll add a tooltip/whatsthis to the datebar then, so that the DateBar is 
> easier to grok for new users.
>
> Cheers,
>   Johannes
>
> On Wednesday 17 April 2013 11:01:51 Joe wrote:
>> I don't think there was much of a KPA manual when I started using it a
>> few years ago (and now I'm too lazy to read a whole manual).  Maybe I'll
>> have to! That feature sounds just about identical to what I wanted! I'll
>> have to try it shortly. Maybe right clicking on the date bar could pop
>> up a note about its functionality - or maybe a tool tip would do it.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>     Joe
>>
>> On 04/16/2013 10:07 PM, Miika Turkia wrote:
>>> The date bar can be used to define date or date range. Just click
>>> slightly below it to mark the slot and hold down while marking a
>>> region. And the selection size is updated accordingly. It sure isn't
>>> self evident that this is possible but yet again it is documented in
>>> KPA manual (feel free to improve the documentation as well as the
>>> functionality).
>>>
>>> miika
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us
>>>
>>> <mailto:josephj at main.nc.us>> wrote:
>>>     I just always thought the date bar should do something when you
>>>     click on
>>>     it, etc.
>>>     
>>>     I was thinking of something very simple. Highlight part of the bar
>>>     just
>>>     like selecting text in a word processor, then some key presses or
>>>     mouse
>>>     clicks to go ahead and deselect or activate it.
>>>     
>>>     For *fancy*, a tool tip or pop-up could list the beginning and ending
>>>     date of the range highlighted. This would probably be needed so you
>>>     could see precisely what you had selected.
>>>     
>>>     *If* the code can *easily* tell how many pictures have been
>>>     (sub)selected (before committing to the selection), then
>>>     displaying that
>>>     would be useful as well.
>>>     
>>>     *Really fancy* - allow more than one range selection.
>>>     
>>>     Joe
>>>     
>>>     I don't do any gui programming beyond zenity/yad, so what I want
>>>     sounds
>>>     simple to me, but I have no idea what it takes to do it in a real
>>>     language/application.
>>>     
>>>     On 04/14/2013 05:30 PM, Johannes Zarl wrote:
>>>     > Hi Joe,
>>>     > 
>>>     > Seems like an interesting idea. Implementing the functionality
>>>     
>>>     should be
>>>     
>>>     > relatively straightforward. The visual representation is
>>>     
>>>     probably the hard
>>>     
>>>     > part, though...
>>>     > 
>>>     >   Johannes
>>>     > 
>>>     > On Sunday 14 April 2013 07:30:57 Joe wrote:
>>>     >> As long as you're looking at the date bar, it would be cool to
>>>     
>>>     be able
>>>     
>>>     >> to use it as a filter to (sub-)select pictures from a date range.
>>>     >> 
>>>     >> I know that's a lot more than what you are currently working
>>>     
>>>     on, but
>>>     
>>>     >> maybe you could get an idea of how much work it would be.
>>>     >> Joe
>>>     >> 
>>>     >> On 04/13/2013 01:38 PM, Johannes Zarl wrote:
>>>     >>> looks the same as always, but adopts its zoom-level as one
>>>     
>>>     browses the
>>>     
>>>     >>> image
>>>     
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