custom thumbnail labels

[jotess]

Hello,
I have a question concerning custom thumbnail labels:
- When the string entered for the description of the info to be shown is too long, it gets cut of after hitting OK. I don't know if this is a limit on the number of items or characters.
- When the thumbnails are not wide enough to display the full length of thumbnail labels they are cut off. But when thumbnails are wider than something like 350px the length of the labels is not increased anymore, even if there were more information to display.

Is it possible to remove these restrictions? I would like to see as much IPTC and EXIF information as possible. And some words take a lot of space ("Multi segment (5)" and the like).
Could you make the text box to enter wider? A lot wider, like 5 times? So one could see the whole text entered at once.

One more problem:
messurement charactereistic, Exposure mode and flash information are not read in Pentax raw files (.nef).

regards
Joachim

[xnview]

I have a question concerning custom thumbnail labels:
- When the string entered for the description of the info to be shown is too long, it gets cut of after hitting OK. I don't know if this is a limit on the number of items or characters.

Yes, normal. The label is only 1 line

- When the thumbnails are not wide enough to display the full length of thumbnail labels they are cut off. But when thumbnails are wider than something like 350px the length of the labels is not increased anymore, even if there were more information to display.

The length of label follow the width of thumbnail

Could you make the text box to enter wider? A lot wider, like 5 times? So one could see the whole text entered at once.

Oh i see, you want to have labels wider than thumbnail width, right?

messurement charactereistic, Exposure mode and flash information are not read in Pentax raw files (.nef).

So send me a sample, please

[jotess]

Hi,

Yes, normal. The label is only 1 line

Of course. But 1 line of very limited length!

- When the thumbnails are not wide enough to display the full length of thumbnail labels they are cut off. But when thumbnails are wider than something like 350px the length of the labels is not increased anymore, even if there were more information to display.

The length of label follow the width of thumbnail

Yes, but only up to a certain length. When the thumbnail becomes wider, the line does not become wider any more.

Could you make the text box to enter wider? A lot wider, like 5 times? So one could see the whole text entered at once.

Oh i see, you want to have labels wider than thumbnail width, right?

No, that was not what I meant - Although this might sometimes help as well. Here I meant the text box in the options dialog where I can enter the variables. (If it worked the way I wish, then I could increase the width of the label by setting the thumbnail width to a higher value. Then the line needn't be longer than the thumbnail width. I hope this is somehow clear to understand.)

messurement charactereistic, Exposure mode and flash information are not read in Pentax raw files (.nef).

Sorry, .PEF of course!

So send me a sample, please

To REMOVED? OK, it's on its way.

regards
Joachim

[xnview]

Could you make the text box to enter wider? A lot wider, like 5 times? So one could see the whole text entered at once.

Oh i see, you want to have labels wider than thumbnail width, right?

No, that was not what I meant - Although this might sometimes help as well. Here I meant the text box in the options dialog where I can enter the variables. (If it worked the way I wish, then I could increase the width of the label by setting the thumbnail width to a higher value. Then the line needn't be longer than the thumbnail width. I hope this is somehow clear to understand.)

Sorr but i don't understand, could you post a screenshot of what you would like?

[jotess]

Hi,
this is a copy of my direct e-mail. There I have attached screenshots of what I mean. If it is possible to upload it somewhere to the forum I'll do so, you would have to tell me how.

In thumbnails view: The space marked red is not used for longer thumnails. (screenshot_XnView_tn-labels_marked.gif)

In the options dialogue: The text box is not long enough to see all entered text at once. (If the list above was wider this would be nice too, but that's not that important.) (screenshot_XnView_tn-labels-options.gif)

When I enter variables exceeding the limit, they are still displayed in the text box. (screenshot_XnView_tn-labels-options2.gif)

After hitting OK and reopening the dialogue you see where the entry has been cropped. (screenshot_XnView_tn-labels-options3.gif)

The label itself is cut off at a different point. (screenshot_XnView_tn-labels2.gif)

regards
Joachim

[XnTriq]

Two examples for a more effective use of screen real estate due to expanding and collapsing thumbnail labels:

1. Windows Live Search: “xnview”
2. Google Image Search
   • Google Operating System
     • New Interface For Google Image Search (11/Aug/2006)
     • Google Image Search Has a Cleaner Look (23/Jan/2007)
   • Google Blogoscoped
     • Google Images Layout Prototype? (14/Aug/2006)
     • Google Image Results Redesign (23/Jan/2007)
   • Donutey: Updated Google Images UI (24/Jan/2007)
   • Search Engine Herald: Google Images Gets a Facelift (24/Jan/2007)
   • Lifehacker: Bring back old-school Google Image Search (25/Jan/2007)
   • Matt Cutts: New look for image search & Groups out of beta (25/Jan/2007)
   • Live and Beyond: Google updates Image search interface (26/Jan/2007)
   • Search Engine Roundtable: Google Images Now Back With Old Design (22/Feb/2007)