New Option for the GUI

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shevegen
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New Option for the GUI

Post by shevegen »

Hi there.
I built a simple ruby-gtk stuff around cfdg (its still horribly buggy), and one thing I am using it for is to easily generate a gallery of all .cfdg files. It is quite handy, not as nice as the windows GUI, but usable enough to generate a "gallery snapshot".

Now, I am also using windows sometimes, and when i looked at the decent GUI (decent in the sense that it is very much usable for a user) i noticed that you guys could maybe add an option to generate a gallery / thumbnail gallery.
IF you guys think that is nice to have, i leave it of course totally open how to implement or what to add specifically:-) but here is one draft suggestion to it, maybe to make a possible decision easier:

- In Examples Menu, add a "render examples to image", like a batch processing checkbox or similar, which allows a user to batch-create image files.
- Also, do a tiny inbuilt "thumbnails" gallery make, which can be activated/used once a user says to generate images from all examples.
- Allow the user to add his own custom examples to the example listing.
For example, I would like to remove some examples and use my own examples instead.

Why would such a feature be nice to have?

I think an (inbuilt) gallery would be nice to look at your .cfdg files.

At best you could collect together which images look nice, and assemble them to become a final larger image which contains all the thumbnails automagically (and you could i.e put this on your webpage or something).

Yes, I know there are many workarounds to this, also many simple, but i thought why not have this feature maybe. :-)

Ok thats it, thanks for reading! ;)

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