Thumbcat
Image Catalogue Application
1 Introduction
Thumbcat is primarily an application for the cataloguing of photos and clipart however the functionality can be roughly split into three :
- Immediate display of single images or a directory of images that are not catalogued.
- Catalogues photos, clipart and video clips.
- Creates an HTML version of a catalogue that can be referenced by non RISCOS hardware.
1.1 Display of images
Any file, of a format that thumbcat recognises, can be dragged to the iconbar icon and the image will be displyed in a detail style window. A detail style window shows a large thumbnail of 600 or 800 pixels in size. When the image is double clicked a data window is displayed showing sizes,dates titles etc. The data displayed is based very closely upon the Digtal Camera EXIF standard. However, the difference is that the Thumbcat database is a consolidation of the standard tags and all maker notes.
The tags displayed are limited to a few mandatory tags and whichever others have been selected by the user via the tag selection window.
Thumbcat can display catalogues in of two styles, filer or book.
Filer Style Album list
Filer Style Album View
Book Style Album List
Book Style Album View
The book style has configurable bindings, finishes and colours.
1.2 Cataloguing
When Thumbcat builds a catalogue it generates and stores three items of information for each image in a directory tree:
- A small thumbnail image for use in a contact sheet display or album.
- A large thumbnail for use in a detail view. The size is roughly one half screen width.
- Tag data typically derived from the information stored in a Digital Camera Exif file.
1.3 HTML
This creates web pages to mimic the desktop display and functionality that links the three main displays.