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As written somewhere we can expect floating pictures to be displayed in Beta 16. What exactly does this mean?
Can we display the pictures of an individual or may be two or three pictures and place it the way we want it to be?
Can we display a wedding picture, selected from the marriage dialog box?
Will we be able to insert a background picture for the tree and if so which format? Can we edit this picture to make it more transparent?
Since I will discuss these topics with some of my relatives back in German around September this year, would appreciate if someone could give me some answers.
Thank's for the attention.
Edited: Monday, November 20, 2006 by
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With the floating pictures, you will be able to add pictures, logos and background images anywhere in the genealogy tree. The goal is also to offer a special display mode to display the primary picture inside the gender symbol (square/circle/diamond). Adding floating pictures is not a trivial task, mostly because of the zoom. As the zoom becomes smaller, more and more pictures may eventually be displayed simultaneoulsy. This requires sophisticated caching, threading (load or download the file in the background) to not hog the processor, and smart memory management to flush pictures that have not been displayed in a while.
The feature to display pictures inside the squares and circles has been on my mind since the first release in 1998. A "Picture Mode" will be implemented where everything is zoomed (except the text) to display pictures in a decent size. This is not an easy feature, since a good picture manager is needed for holding a large number of pictures without consuming all the memory. There are performance issues for quality stretching and image clipping. In addition, a multi-threading mechanism must be in place for loading and rendering pictures in the background, yet synchronize with the display to repaint the family tree when a new picture has been loaded. This multi-threading is already operational, however there are problems such as waiting for all the pictures to be loaded before printing. Loading all the pictures at once may not be obvious, since there may not be enough memory for all of them. Nothing is impossible, however this is not a friday afternoon feature.
Edited: Friday, May 04, 2007 by
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In some graphics programs, pictures have an "Alpha" value. That is, the transparency of the picture is dependent upon this value. In this manner, a number of pictures can be overlayed on each other to create a photo-montage. If you could work that in this program, that would be a great bonus.
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The alpha blending is part of the plan. Labels will also have alpha channels.
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