Hi all, The Picture Centre in Legacy 7 and 8 only handles graphics. True it is fairly good at remembering the captions etc you add to the picture. However if you move computer or folder and don't take the right piclist.dbm with you, you have lost them. It's not intended to be permanent.
The Media Gallery handles all file types you might want to attach to something in Legacy. In Legacy 7 this was called the Picture Gallery for some time but Media Gallery in the latest builds. You can copy pictures from one Gallery to another or to another place in the same Gallery (from individual pic to event pic for example) When you copy and paste a pic, it takes the caption etc with it. Right click on a thumbnail in the gallery to initiate. Is Media handling perfect? No. But it's a lot better in Legacy 8. Cathy At 10:42 AM 8/01/2014, you wrote: >When you click on the Icon for adding a picture to an individual in your >db, you get a window that says at the top, "Media Gallery for...." That >designation does seem to imply that it is a central place for all media >information, but the central place has been given the name "Picture >Center." These are the same as it is in Legacy 7. If I understood >correctly, that this was part of the issue for you, please know that my >response is intended to be a friendly one. > >Joseph Leavitt > > >On 1/7/2014 3:09 PM, CE WOOD wrote: > > I do not have a Media Gallery. Although this list has been dominated > > by those who have the time, willingness to be gammatesters as > > Legacy 8 gets rid of its numerous bugs, there are many Legacy users > > who use earlier versions, even versions as far back as 4. > > > > I would hope that Legacy will continue to address the problems of > > version 7, especially since many of those were not fixed in version 8, > > and are, therefore, still needing to be addressed. > > > > What we are asking re pictures, is to be able to add info to the > > picture at the appropriate page, and have it carry over to the central > > area, be it called Picture Center or Media Gallery, or whatever. When > > we enter a location, individual, or event, that is when we enter the > > picture and info. One step, no copying. And then, in the central area, > > that info appears so that when we add the same picture to another > > location, individual, or event, we do not have to re-enter the info again. > > > > Simple, unconvoluted, no copying, no leaving the Location List, > > Individual Page, Marriage Page, etc., no having to use Media Gallery > > or Picture Center. > > > > > > CE > > > > > From: jleavi...@att.net > > > To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com > > > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Attaching a picture > > > Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 12:35:03 -0800 > > > > > > Thank you Rick! I see this now in the Help file, by the term Hint: > > > > > > I wondered how many other hints I missed along the way, so I went back > > > to the Help file, and, using the Search tab, searched on the word Hint. > > > Four hits come up -- all quite interesting. > > > > > > Joseph Leavitt > > > > > > > > > On 1/7/2014 11:46 AM, Rick Bowden wrote: > > > > Why not use the Media Gallery Clipboard ? That will copy the link for > > > > any file , picture or not , together with the Date , Caption and > > > > Notes. You can copy one or all the items from a gallery , or Copy > > > > Append , selecting items from different galleries. The paste function > > > > allows you to paste to Individual, Location , Source , Repository > > , in > > > > fact any Media Gallery. > > > > > > > > Right mouse click on the icon in the required gallery for the copy > > > > dropdown , select the copy option required , then go to the target > > > > gallery and right mouse click in a blank space and select the paste > > > > option. > > > > > > > > Rick Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
