Semi-OT: Anybody tried ThumbsPlus 7 yet?

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(Pete Cresswell)

Specifically, I'm wondering if the claimed "More flexible installation options"
has anything to do with being able to set up a self-contained CD...
 
Specifically, I'm wondering if the claimed "More flexible installation options"
has anything to do with being able to set up a self-contained CD...
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Pete,
I've used Ver 7 Pro ever since it got out of beta... but since I don't
know what you mean by a self-contained CD I can't answer your
question. However, the Cerious web site also maintains several T+
newsgroups, one of which I'm sure would handle your question.
See http://www.cerious.com/feedback.shtml for links.
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
 
Per Charlie:
I've used Ver 7 Pro ever since it got out of beta... but since I don't
know what you mean by a self-contained CD
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A CD that contains pix plus a version of ThumbsPlus and it's DB that can be used
to view the pix.
 
(Pete Cresswell) said:
Per Charlie:

A CD that contains pix plus a version of ThumbsPlus and it's DB that can be used
to view the pix.
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I use ThumbsPlus 7 and I have not tried to run from a CD. It is not
practical.

I think it would be possible, of course the database would be read only. You
could never add anything to the database on the cd.

You do not need Thumbsplus to view the image files.
Any viewer that can open the images will work, some can even do a slide
show.
 
Per CSM1:
You
could never add anything to the database on the cd.

You do not need Thumbsplus to view the image files.
Any viewer that can open the images will work, some can even do a slide
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That's the phrase I was searching for: "using ThumbsPlus as a viewer"...

The "viewer" CD's I've seen so far have seemed kind of hokey to me - no search,
no presentation of comments, no scrolling panes of thumbnails, and so-forth.

Maybe I just haven't seen the right one(s).

Last year I put together a high school class reunion CD just sort of hand-coding
the SQL (actually, writing VBA code to create same from a DB...) with a
scrolling pane of thumbnails and a "Zoom" pane next to it (functional
approximation at www.class59.com without some of the detail info) - but it was a
lot of work.

In some past release of TP, there was the ability to install the app on a CD -
giving the CD's user all of TP's functionality in terms of keyword searches and,
I'd guess, pre-defind "Find" groups. That's mainly what I was hoping for.

Come to think of it, the TP DB is MS JET...so maybe I could write some more
generic code to create the HTML for a CD...
 
Per Charlie:

A CD that contains pix plus a version of ThumbsPlus and it's DB that can be used
to view the pix.
Click to expand...

Pete,

I don't really see a need for such a feature.

With thumbsplus you can generate html pages of "thumbnails" of your
images, and save that to the CD along with the Image files, and can
even set links between the thumbnails and the actual image files so
that they are "clickable", ie, click on a thumbnail and view the image
file full size using your browser..... ie have the CD act just like a
web site.

Or, you can catalog the CD with T+ and then view the thumbnails "off
line" (without the CD in the drive).

To what purpose would you want a T+ database "on" the CD?
Charlie Hoffpauir
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/
 
Per Charlie:
I don't really see a need for such a feature.

With thumbsplus you can generate html pages of "thumbnails" of your
images, and save that to the CD along with the Image files, and can
even set links between the thumbnails and the actual image files so
that they are "clickable", ie, click on a thumbnail and view the image
file full size using your browser..... ie have the CD act just like a
web site.
Click to expand...

The same thing is available via one of PhotoShop's options...but with a couple
thousand pix the result set can be difficult to manage/navigate. One of TP's
strengths for me is the ability to search and present only the results of the
search.
 
i like the ability of thumbsplus to be able to create the fields that
i like, fill in the data and then just call up pix that fufill the
criteria in the fields i've created ...

so that i could have date, country, type of photo (place, person) etc
....and then just call up all my, for example, "tunisia" photos... in
that respect its the most user friendly program i've found ...

ymmv ...

steve
 
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