Well thank to the good soul who recently posted the link to "Usage-centered Design" I decided to "back away" from this a bit and abstract as many use tasks as I could for the whole job top to bottom. Now it is looking like a card based system will be best for over all needs. At least initially, it will be easy enough to allow the user to shuffle a card forth and back "set the number of this card to the number of this card +1"

Then I think a preview widget with thumbnails that can be dragged and dropped which then invokes a handler to adjust the card numbers of the main entry stack... with HTML preview live and updated in a browser while you work... that's were I am today at least.

Thinking outloud here: Card based as lots of advantages in this scenario for incorporating all the other "use-tasks" that are involved at caption time where focus is on a single caption: html mark up of the text, creating anchors, adding banners above and below etc. all tools that are now on floating pallettes in Supercard can move to a background group available on every card. Allows for incorporation of another scenario where incoming photos arrive by FTP from a distributed stack with the filename of the photo matching the file name of a small text file that hold the caption. Uploading a folder of such input into the card based stack will be a snap....
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mmm. just go to get a previewer.... field with chars set to imagedata?


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On Jan 2, 2004, at 6:47 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

But now, if I want to re-order the photos... what is the best
strategy?
Implement a drag and drop? let's say the photo and its
caption which is
5th in the sequence left to right needs to move to position 2, I

[snip]

Any thoughts?

Well, it looks like you hit them both on the head... an intuitive/difficult approach, or a non-intuitive/easy approach...

Personally, if you've got the time, I'd go for the intuitive/difficult
approach... apart from the fact that it would best serve your customers,
you'd have a neet "image-reordering-widget" you could use on other
projects. :-)


Just my 2 cents,

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