[imp] thumbnail preview of many images

Daniel Eckl daniel.eckl at gmx.de
Thu Dec 18 10:11:13 PST 2003


Okay, I can understand these reasons and I agree with you.

Thanks for the explanation.

Greets,
Daniel


Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.colorado.edu>:

> Quoting Daniel Eckl <daniel.eckl at gmx.de>:
>
> | Hi!
> |
> | I just checked the fixed thumbnail preview support. It works fine now, but
> | there
> | is a drawback. In the past, the thumbnails could be opened through an icon
> | directly beside of the attachement.
> |
> | Now I have the attachements shown in the header as I configured and below
> the
> | mail there is the link to the thumbnail.
> |
> | Now thats not a real problem in normal cases. But I had a mail with
> multiple
> | big
> | images in the attachement. Now I have a bunch of attachements in the header
> | which is fine. But now I have a bunch of links below the mail which have no
> | visible connection to the attachements.
>
> This is desired behavior.  I changed to this behavior for several reasons:
> 1) It is cleaner in the code.  Before, the code to generate the little icon
> for
> thumbnails appeared in the IMP_Contents library; this code really belongs in
> the library that handles image attachments (i.e. the IMP MIME_Viewer image
> library).
> 2) The code that renders this attachment info can now be used by all
> MIME_Viewers, not just images.
> 3) I personally find this current setup more useful than having the icon next
> to
> the Part listing - when the icon was in the Part listing, it was difficult to
> determine that 1) the icon could be clicked, and 2) that the icon provided a
> thumbnail generation.  Now, the behavior of the thumbnail generation can be
> easily explained to the user.
>
> michael
>
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