"Jochen F. Rick" <nadja at cc.gatech.edu> wrote...

> > What would it take to write a guash in Squeak? (For those who don't know
>> it, guash is a Gimp plug in -- it comes with the Windows version, *nix
>> people have to build it -- which writes a thumbnail of every image in
>> the directory it's pointed at to a .xvpics directory within that
>> directory and displays them. By having two instances of guash open you
>> can graphically sort images from one directory to the other, and by
>> clicking on them you can display them full size. IIRC, PaintShopPro had
>> a similar tool (maybe it still does).
>
>When you select, reorder slides from the menu button, this SlideShow
>does roughly the same thing. The thumbnails are saved in a file called
>thumbs.st (Stored as objects). BTW, this may take some time (i.e.
>building all the thumbnails).
>
>It shouldn't be very hard to write some code to move files between two
>SlideShows.

You might want to look at the support for such operations in bookMorphs.  There is a BookPageSorter invoked by 'sort pages' that allows instant drag/drop sorting of thumbnails.  This can even be used from one book to another.  While you'll see the same delay to build the thumbnails, things are instant from then on.  BookMorphs cache the thumbnails, so you can re-sort later with no delay, except for new pages.

Just a thought

	- Dan
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