Several questions about the BLOB editor. I suspect some of these will need to be enhancement requests, but maybe I am just missing something.
I am using the editor to load a file into a field located on a form. It works OK, except it takes a lot of mouse clicks to do what I need.
I have a great looking app using using
this and the editor is a weak point. When loading dozens of photos
at one sitting, it gets to be pretty tedious and difficult by R:Base standards.
1. Is there a way to set a default
directory to load a file from? It always defaults to the database
directory. Then you have to reset it to see thumbnails - it always
defaults to a filename.
2. I found a way to lasso and
crop an image in this. But first you have to go to VIEW/MOUSE MODE/SELECT.
Then you have to open an image (and
take time to look for it in whatever directory it is - see item #1)
Then you have to go to EDIT/CROP TO
IMAGE
Then you can save it as a bitmap, jpeg
or whatever. (this is OK and useful)
This is too many steps EACH time you
want to load an image. Are there property settings or commands I
can invoke before I open this to make this easier? All I want to
do is click on a file in a form, pick an image from a thumbnail, crop what
I want, and load it to my database or manipulate it.
I hope this was clear enough. this
viewer has great potential and a lot of doodads, but some of the really
necessary ones for data entry are too difficule to use.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Bob C.
