I've wished for this capability also and for the same reasons. I'd like to
be able to right-click the image within Legacy and have the option to
select, say, "External Viewer". This would kick off whatever program you
have set up as your default viewer for images, say, Irfanview, with the
image displayed. You could then close the image within Legacy and go back
and enter your data.
Here's a workaround that works for me. It takes a couple of more
mouse-clicks, but it's pretty fast:
I click the image within Legacy's Assigned Sources screen. This brings up
the Picture Gallery for Source Detail. From there, click Print Photo Album.
From the next screen, click Print Preview. From Print Preview screen, click
Create PDF. I just name the file junk.pdf. When Legacy asks me if I want
to view the PDF, I say Yes. The image is then displayed in Adobe's Reader,
outside of Legacy. Within Legacy, I can go back and edit whatever I want and
the image is available for reference.
Margaret
Here is an example of what I am trying to do. I save images of census
pages
in my Source Detail. Sometimes, when I am looking at the image, I realize
that there is some more data that I would like to enter, but in order to
enter the data, if I opened the image using Legacy, then I have to close
the
image before I can open the Edit Individual window in order to add an
event.
If possible, I would like to have a way to view the images without having
to
close them to enter data. If it can't be done using the default Legacy
picture viewer, then if we had the option to use a different image viewer
so
that we could toggle between the two windows. So say we are looking at the
Source Detail and right-click on the Source Picture to open it using a
separate image viewer. Now we can close the Source, and go to the Event
entry screen - all while the other image viewer program is still open with
the image I am extracting the data from.
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