On Jan 1, 2008 6:39 PM, Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 1, 2008, at 6:19 PM, Michael McCracken wrote: > > > On Dec 30, 2007 11:31 PM, Adam R. Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I added thumbnail generation for http: URLs in the file pane (maybe > >> it > >> should be called an attachment pane?). I've tested it with several > >> URLs (sciencedirect, springerlink) on my system, but I'd appreciate > >> some further testing as well. It should degrade to the "@" icon when > >> the network isn't available or the page fails to load, and plugins/ > >> java/javascript/pdf are disabled. Let me know if there are > >> performance problems or crashes. > > > > I just gave it a try with the latest nightly, and it's working well > > for me. > > I found that if all my pubs were selected, the file pane would scroll > > slowly, occasionally beachballing. However, I think that's > > pathological behavior on my part, and in regular use it's snappy. > > If you have performance problems, feel free to send samples. I don't > see beachballs here, but I haven't tried the web thumbnails on a > single core system (or tried optimizing them at all, really). Until a > few weeks ago I was testing it regularly on a 1.33 G4, and it did fine > with a few hundred PDF files.
Ok, I'll see if it has problems in regular use. I'll send samples if so. > You could try setting FVWebIconDisabled to true using defaults, which > will draw a Finder icon instead. > > > The file pane is looking really nice - although I was expecting it to > > auto-size like omniweb's thumbnails. I find that I never want empty > > horizontal space in the file pane, and thus having a separate slider > > for the icon size seems redundant. Am I missing something there? > > OW has a single column, so it can size thumbnails to that width. The > file pane is an iPhoto-style grid view like IKImageBrowserView; check > out the test project for the fileview framework to see what it looks > like. The original plan was to have it in the bottom pane, where > zooming is more useful. That explains it. So it'd be a big change to make it autosize with one column? I do think that'd be better behavior as long as the file pane is along the right. (But of course I'm open to having my mind changed) -mike > > -- > > adam > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > -- Michael McCracken UCSD CSE PhD Candidate research: http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/~mmccrack/ misc: http://michael-mccracken.net/wp/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
