ziggie opened this issue on Aug 04, 2009 · 617 posts
bagginsbill posted Tue, 04 August 2009 at 8:28 PM
Quote - Let me guess... Smith micro assumes everyone is using a CRT @ 800x600 still, and coded the thumbs to be small for those with teeny monitors, while not allowing for an option to resize them?
Somehow that wouldn't surprise me.
LOL. No they're not stupid. It's my fault. (I wrote the library GUI)
Well not exactly my fault, but Adobe's. See, this is written in Flex, and I'm using the Flex Tree widget. Just getting it to show custom thumbnails on a per-item basis was tricky. Getting it to support thumbnails at different sizes was even trickier, but I made it work.
(Thumbnails can even display larger than 91 by 91 now, the previous display limit. If you have Apollo Maximus, check him out. His thumbnails is HUGE when you select it. )
Back to our story. Getting the control to display a child item count was tricky. Getting the tree control to cache the folder thumbnail was tricky. Getting it to open folders when you click the name, but not other parts was tricky. Lots of tricky.
So I added an option to display all item thumbnails large. The tree control went berzerk. unable to scroll, lost its content altogether, etc. I spent weeks trying to find out why the tree control went berzerk when filled with large thumbnails. I'm still working on it.
Meanwhile, people have something to play with, it is usable, it is hundreds of times faster than the old library. I'm working on it. Sorry about that. I'll try harder next time. :)
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