[Clipart] Sorting

[Jon Phillips]

Andy Burns wrote:
> Nathan Eady wrote:
> 
>> Actually, the auto thumbnail previewing made Windows Explorer
>> well-suited to this task, something I never thought I'd hear
>> myself say.  (It doesn't thumbnail the .svg images, but it does
>> the .png thumbnails, so if you keep things sorted by name and
>> always move related files together, it works.)
> 
> 
> I suppose there is the possibility of creating a windows explorer shell 
> extension that will support .svg files (i.e to display a thumbnail 
> preview and add a tab to the property page to view the metadata)
> 
> I might be tempted to have a go at that, anyone know of another 
> opensource project that has similar functionaility for it's own file type?
> 

Man, that would rock big time!!!

Here is an app that provides a framework for doing this: 
http://thumbview.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=about

You could use Inkscape to generate png files for the SVG thumbnails...I don't 
think it should be too difficult. It would be a great thing you would be doing...

Here are some more resources:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/directx9_c/directx/directxsdk/tools/content/textureviewer.asp

http://www.matroska.org/downloads/shellextension/


This one shows how to do it...
http://www.codeproject.com/shell/thumbextract.asp

Cool!

Jon


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