On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:07:28 +0000 Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
babbled:

> OK, so I wrote before a nice app for showing images one after the other
> and allowing you to caption them. After I spoke to Atmos about this
> topic we thought merging it to entice was a good idea, which I think is
> still the case.
> 
> What has changed is that I have been offered a small bounty to actually
> implement this at last, so I think I better!
> 
> 2 questions arise:
> 1) How should the backend be stored? There is an old format that will
> need to be supported, but I figure a wrapper script would be fine
> (though this perhaps implies input from stdin as well as a file based
> backend). I figured that an eet might be a winner, but I thought I would
> get input.

eet would be handy. in fact - if you simply store it as key/string u can use
the eet command-line tool to pack/unpack as the data entry is simply text. eet
has handled the delimiting/parsing for u. but that really depends how you want
to look it up. is this more like for a photo gallery - you can caption an image
on your fs permenantly? will thew imags stay where it is with its current path?
will it move? might you perhaps find it better to add comment fields to the
image file itself? (if the format supports it. jpeg and png do). maybe all you
need is a plaintext file called .imagefilename.jpg.comment that sits in the
directory with the image? (the dot will mean its generally hidden) ?

> 2) How best to write text over the image. A semi-transparent thing is
> what I had before and it worked well, but the problem is it was
> esmart-textarea, which I belive is not in action any more, any nice
> editable-text replacement?

aaah editable text. yeah - it's pretty much out of action. do you only want 1
line or multiple lines of text? that makes a big difference.

> Thanks all for input - you know you need to invest thought in how you
> want to manage your photos from this point on ;)

aah so it is like a gallery/album comment thing. :)

> Andy
> 
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