I’ve been working on an application to centralize the management of image resources used in Notes applications. It’s at a stage where I’d like to find people to try it out and provide feedback. There’s a prize involved.
The tool is a catalog of image resource design elements, stored in the application. It lets you import/export disk files, or point the catalog at an existing template and tell it to go fetch. It’ll pull in all the image resources, assign them IDs, notice if they’re duplicates of a graphic found in another application and avoid creating duplicate records.
Then you can see them in views, including a thumbnail of the image, dimensions, file size, whether it’s an image well. You can assign background color based on the category of an image or override for a specific image so it shows up well. You can search the text of the images (names, comment etc), categorize them, wash, rinse, and dry.
Each application whose graphics are under management by a particular catalog, will have an associated folder so you can quickly review what images it uses. You can add a graphic to an application by dragging it into that application’s folder.
It’s probably not quite ready for prime time, but I wonder if any of y’all would be interested in trying it out and giving me feedback? I need to know if it does anything bad to the copies of your applications that you try it out on, but also usability, missing features, anything stupid I’ve done, documentation that’s hard to understand, whatever.
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I’d love to have a go at it!
Great! Check your email.
I can do a test run
I’m in ! Just send me whatever is necessary.
Chris and Fredrick have been sent copies — I could use one more tester.
More than happy to assist.
Gibt es schon Ergebnisse zu der Anwendung? Ich würde es auch gerne testen.
Are there already results for the application? I would also like to test it.
I need to have another look at it and make sure I’ve done something about the feedback I received. But I’ve emailed you a copy meanwhile.
After the first test, this is a great application. It would be great if you could also save images from Notes documents as image resources.
I’d need to understand the use case for this. An application can contain a LOT more images than Notes supports as the maximum number of design elements.
I have an application where images are stored for sale. These should be displayed in the view. Or a personnel application where employee images are stored. These should be displayed in the view. How many elements can be saved as resources in the database?