On 8 Sep 2007, at 6:46 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

>
> On Sep 8, 2007, at 09:26, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>
>> But the problem is that the display only displays a fixed set of
>> fields, and the order of the files is pretty arbitrary as I see it.
>> Perhaps we should add a "Local Files" column or something displaying
>> any number of icons?
>
> Order would be preserved such that the first file dropped would always
> be bdsk-file-1 (ideally they'd be user-defined...but rearranging isn't
> implemented).
>

Well, but what I mean: that may not be the one the user thinks is the  
most important.

> I was thinking something like a toggle would be useful to switch
> between the user's preferred display and a file display, which might
> obviate the need to icons in the table column?  It would be pretty
> handy for gathering up all files for the selected references.  I've
> also wondered about a list view; at that point, we're basically
> reimplementing Finder to look at a flat directory.
>

Still I think it's useful to be able to drag files from the main  
table or open them quickly, also without selection changes.

>> BTW, you can also add icon attachment in the template preview (use
>> the rtfd template).
>
> Yeah, I experimented with that, and I think adding icons with the URL
> links might be okay by default.
>
> Before creating my custom view, I tried a custom attachment cell
> subclass that displays thumbnails in the textview, but it used memory
> like crazy.  It's also amusing to see PDF files each displayed in
> their own scrollview inside the attributed textview, which is easy
> with text attachments.
>
> -- 
> Adam
>

I can imagine that is not very efficient. I did not know textview  
added scrollviews for attachments.

Christiaan


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