Photo Catalog-Re Ordering Photos with captions

[Ken Ray]

> 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 
> suppose we could drag it and some how drop it between the 
> existing 1 & 
> 2 and via some algorithm, move all the photos to the right by one 
> increment of 370 pixels and reset the layers for everyone... not 
> trivial... Or perhaps my original plan was better, keep a list in a 
> palette window that the use can re-order which dynamically re-assigns 
> file names to the image controls, which will keep there ordinal layer 
> position. Problem is, that's not intuitive... file names look like 
> "1-2-04_01.jpg" and its much more obvious to drag and drop the actual 
> photo you see you want to move.
> 
> 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,

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/