by Lee James (Posted Sun Oct 23, 2016 10:24 pm)
Admittedly, it works best when all the images are the same aspect ratio. However, it still works very well for mixed aspect ratios - as you can see in this example:
http://i.imgsafe.org/af48e66.png
That is true. Personally I never cache thumbnails so I hadn't thought of this. On my computer, thumbnails generate very quickly so it's not an issue.
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I know that my instructions above are probably confusing and not very easy to follow. So if required, I would be more than happy to make a YouTube video tutorial explaining very clearly how this effect would be programmed. I think some things are easier to explain with videos and diagrams rather than just with written instructions Image may be NSFW.
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"Simpler" idea...
Alternatively, I have just thought of a much "simpler" version of this idea. It removes all the unused space around icons with 2 simple methods:
• All portrait icons have the space removed from the left and right sides
• If an entire row contains landscape images, all the excess space is removed from above and below it
This method would not require the thumbnails to be re-generated and would still make much better use of the screen space. Though of course I would prefer my original idea, this is just a simpler alternative.
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helmut wrote:if you have images with differing aspect ratios in one row, this won't work well.
Admittedly, it works best when all the images are the same aspect ratio. However, it still works very well for mixed aspect ratios - as you can see in this example:
http://i.imgsafe.org/af48e66.png
helmut wrote:All in all this would required recalculating thumbnails every time and caching thumbnails wouldn't be possible, anymore.
That is true. Personally I never cache thumbnails so I hadn't thought of this. On my computer, thumbnails generate very quickly so it's not an issue.
helmut wrote:Nowadays computers are fast and maybe a large thumbnail can be cached which is recalculated to the size needed.
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helmut wrote:I briefly looked over the spec and saw the samle image. Thank you for your detailed description, Lee.
I know that my instructions above are probably confusing and not very easy to follow. So if required, I would be more than happy to make a YouTube video tutorial explaining very clearly how this effect would be programmed. I think some things are easier to explain with videos and diagrams rather than just with written instructions Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
"Simpler" idea...
Alternatively, I have just thought of a much "simpler" version of this idea. It removes all the unused space around icons with 2 simple methods:
• All portrait icons have the space removed from the left and right sides
• If an entire row contains landscape images, all the excess space is removed from above and below it
This method would not require the thumbnails to be re-generated and would still make much better use of the screen space. Though of course I would prefer my original idea, this is just a simpler alternative.
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