Post by Uncle Buddy on Jun 30, 2020 0:53:34 GMT -8
This is the person gallery. It opens if you click the picture on the person tab. You can change the picture shown with arrows, spacebar, or by clicking one of the thumbnails at top. The strip of thumbnails doesn't need a scrollbar, you scroll it by swiping it clicklessly with the mouse. Selecting a radio button beneath a thumbnail will make that picture the current person's main picture. If you click the Edit button, the image opens in the Graphics tab where you can crop, rotate, resize, rename, copy, etc. I don't think a genieware should try to do very much with graphics but some of the basics come with the Tkinter add-on called Pillow which I had to install anyway, so why not use the basic stuff it provides.
There are similar galleries residing permanently on the sources tab and the places tab. So your maps and source document images don't have to be all lumped in with your person pictures. But you can put any picture in any gallery. For example, if you don't have a picture of a person who lived in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1935, why not use an old photo of Hot Springs, Arkansas till you find one? It makes a nice impression.
A misfeature of some existing genieware which I'm trying to correct is the use of thumbnails on the main page. They generally look terrible. One popular genieware actually has several copies of the same thumbnail on the same view. What a waste of space. And pictures of the wife and kids too. Thumbnails I mean. A very cluttered look. Images should decorate the page, not compromise it.
There are similar galleries residing permanently on the sources tab and the places tab. So your maps and source document images don't have to be all lumped in with your person pictures. But you can put any picture in any gallery. For example, if you don't have a picture of a person who lived in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1935, why not use an old photo of Hot Springs, Arkansas till you find one? It makes a nice impression.
A misfeature of some existing genieware which I'm trying to correct is the use of thumbnails on the main page. They generally look terrible. One popular genieware actually has several copies of the same thumbnail on the same view. What a waste of space. And pictures of the wife and kids too. Thumbnails I mean. A very cluttered look. Images should decorate the page, not compromise it.
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