Thumbnails - PhotoAlbum - PicShow etc

[A4000_Mad]

Hi,

The purpose of the program PhotoAlbum is of course to display thumbnails for pix in a chosen drawer. A double click on a thumbnail displays it at full size using Cybershow.

The first screengrab shows PhotoAlbum being used in an A4000 with a graphics card and running OS3.9. The second shows PhotoAlbum being used in an A1200 Desktop also running OS3.9.

The thumbnails are poor but useful to have in the A1200 Desktop. However, when double clicked the full size quality is dreadful without the aid of a graphics card. So for the A1200 Desktop I would like to try making PhotoAlbum use something like Multiview instead of Cybershow to display pix if possible.


The author told me that "you can configure an external viewer by the configurable ARexx calling command in PhotoAlbum"

Erm.... How exactly do you do that please? :-?


Thanks,

A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

Many thanks indeed  8-)

I'll also bump this in case newbies starting the day shift in the UK are interested in thumbnails for their photos  :-)

http://home.arcor.de/helmuthoffmann/photoalbum/index.html


A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

PicShow together with Thumb are fantastic as well of course. But these and PhotoAlbum are really designed for graphics cards. Has there actually been a thumbnail program made for the likes of an A1200 *without* a graphics card?


@ lurkist

I still really dig that 2GB Jaz drive icon thanks again mate :-D


A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

8-) That's really great thanks cgutjahr  :cheers:

It uses 'Hi Res Laced' screenmode and when you double click on a thumbnail Multiview is used to display it. You can also just right click on a thumbnail and choose 'View'  :-)

Apparently I just need to get the correct 'MPImage.library' as the A1200 Desktop is using a Blizzard 030 and the one provided is for a 68000.


A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

number6 wrote:
@thread

If anyone is interested I can dig out the info.

I'm interested  :-)

A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

@ lurkist

The creation of that Jaz icon was PURE/Genius  :-)


@ number6

 :egad:  :pint:  :pint:  :pint:  :eek:

But seriously, thank you very much for taking the time to write that out. I'll give it a try when I can but please don't wait up for a progress report.


A4000 Mad