On Jan 7, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > I was just working with the new file view; it occurs to me that at > some point (not to hold up 1.3.13), it might be helpful for users to > be able to differentiate between the multiple attached files. For > example, I have articles, summaries of articles and books, and tables > of contents attached as PDFs. Formerly I created multiple local-url > fields to handle this. > > One way of doing this is by color (a la the Finder's tags). BibDesk > wouldn't necessarily even store the information, it might just fetch > and show and possibly set (as each icon's background, for instance) > colors from the Finder. >
It sounds like you might use this, but I personally have never been quite able to get the finder's different file types and corresponding color coding to work for me. Also, in BD you can either use quicklook (in Leopard) or else enlarge the preview to see what the file is. A little testing shows that a moderate-to-small size preview gives enough resolution to make out the basic kind of thing a file is---a link to a web page, an article (JSTOR articles are particularly conspicuous), a book or something with a title page. I hate being negative about things but I would be interested in hearing how the color-coding scheme would work. One thought that crosses my mind that is not particularly developer- friendly I think is to create metadata for attached files. I have no idea how that would work. So for instance one attached file could have a type "TOC" or something like that. -Adam G ================================= Adam M. Goldstein PhD MSLIS Assistant Professor of Philosophy Iona College -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein/ tel: (914) 637-2717 post: Iona College Department of Philosophy 715 North Avenue New Rochelle, NY 10801 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
