Photo Catalog-Re Ordering Photos with captions

[Sannyasin Sivakatirswami]

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....
\
mmm. just go to get a previewer.... field with chars set to imagedata?

Sannyasin Sivakatirswami
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at Kauai's Hindu Monastery
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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,