Slide sorter software

[ronnie gauthier]

generate the page for dispaly, associated with each pic is a checkbox
for keep/delete and a select that goes from 1 to #ofPics. Choose
deletion and renaming/order.


On Sun, 20 Oct 2002 10:41:34 -0400
Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:

>I am spending too much time on a "trivial" problem, so its time to look
>for some ideas.
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>Here is what I want to do:
>Given a set of TIF slides (photomicrographs, up to 10 megs each) in a
>directory. They will be numbered in sequence, 01_Blah 02_MoreBlah, etc.
>I want to be able to view thumbnails of them on the
>monitor. (Easy part)
>Hard part:
>I want to be able to quickly and easily rearrange and delete them,
>like you would do on a manual slide sorter, prior to burning them to a
>CD. This will involve changing the numerical prefix on the slides at
>some point.
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>I have been fooling with CGI scripts using the browser as the GUI,
>but this seems like an awkward solution, at least in my hands.  And,
>I don't see any way I could use a drag and drop approach to moving the
>slides around, which would be the ideal method.
>
>Any ideas appreciated. I'd be willing to learn another programming
>language, spend some money for software,  or whatever.
>
><slight rant>
>However, I am not willing to spend hours searching sourceforge for some
>buggy program that won't compile or run on my computer, and which,
>after hours of experimentation, won't do what I want. I have already
>spent about 30 minutes there. The first program wouldn't decompress
>(wrong version of gunzip, I am guessing) and the second won't compile
>(wrong version of QT). This is typical of any graphics software I try
>to download.  I don't want to rebuild my system to solve one problem!
>I hate to upgrade, since free upgrades, even free ones, consume large
>amounts of my time, which is not free.
></slight rant>
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>Joel
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