On Monday, August 26, 2002, at 01:13 PM, Charlie Fiskeaux II wrote:
> I'm working on an image browser, so that someone can browse through an
> archive of images and search them via keywords, and I'm trying to
> decide the
> best way to create the grid of thumbnails. So far it seems like the
> best
> solution would be using Imaging Lingo to combine all of the thumbnails
> and
> their names onto a single large image, but I wanted to see what y'all
> thought. The grid will have to be scrollable, since only four rows
> will be
> visible at once, and I want it to not have a physical limit on the
> number of
> thumbnails it can display (like running out of the 1000 sprite
> channels).
> Suggestions? Comments?
You're going to have to impose some kind of reasonable limit. Suppose
someone points your browser to a CD full of clip art? There could be
thousands of images. Trying to compose all that into a single bitmap
would bring down your app and possibly the entire OS. Heck, even
extracting the image info for a single 1600 by 1200 TIFF can make
Director bog a few moments.
I did something like an image browser/thumbnail sheet builder in the
last chapter of my Dir book, and you can look over its source on my
website, but you need to understand that Director is not really a great
app for making a thumbnail browser, I think -- if you *have* to build it
in Director you're going to want to limit it; and if you don't have to
build it in Director, well, maybe you shouldn't. ;)
Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/
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