Author Topic: Dialogs with snapshots - show currently effective snapshot name in title bar  (Read 3612 times)

Offline FVlcek

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Hello,

I would like to be able to see at a glance, in a dialog with one main snapshot (Save As, Upload,IPTC Stationery,etc.), what the currently effective (ie the last remembered or last used) snapshot's name is. That way one could check easily in just one place he is using the correct settings for that particular client / part of workflow (without having to check the whole dialog's tick boxes).

The best place for the name, in my humble opinion, would be the dialog window's title bar (afterwards the dialog's name with some separator, e.g. [this is current shapshot's name here inside brackets], with trailing dashes if it was too long for the title bar). Although I am no programmer, and don't know if Windows API / Cocoa allows changing the window title "on the fly" without closing/creating a new window. If not, that could pose a bit of difficulty as there would need to be another line of text in some already cramped windows.

Best implementation would be, in my opinion, when one changed the dialog in some way, for the snapshot's name indication to be cleared, to identify a changed dialog.

Thank you for consideration, Frantisek

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Frantisek,

I would like to be able to see at a glance, in a dialog with one main snapshot (Save As, Upload,IPTC Stationery,etc.), what the currently effective (ie the last remembered or last used) snapshot's name is. That way one could check easily in just one place he is using the correct settings for that particular client / part of workflow (without having to check the whole dialog's tick boxes).

The best place for the name, in my humble opinion, would be the dialog window's title bar (afterwards the dialog's name with some separator, e.g. [this is current shapshot's name here inside brackets], with trailing dashes if it was too long for the title bar). Although I am no programmer, and don't know if Windows API / Cocoa allows changing the window title "on the fly" without closing/creating a new window. If not, that could pose a bit of difficulty as there would need to be another line of text in some already cramped windows.

Best implementation would be, in my opinion, when one changed the dialog in some way, for the snapshot's name indication to be cleared, to identify a changed dialog.

Most of what you're describing is in version 4.6.

-Kirk

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Great :-) Sorry for the meaningless post then... Frantisek