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musselwhizzle / Focus-Points

Plugin for Lightroom to show which focus point was active in the camera when a photo was taken
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Suggestion: Enhanced EXIF data browsing #156

Closed capricorn8 closed 3 years ago

capricorn8 commented 4 years ago

I'm using this plug-in on a daily basis, and I found myself using the EXIF part increasingly more often than the focus part.

One thing that would significantly improve user experience while browsing EXIF data would be a more sophisticated window that allows for searching tag names, rather than copy and paste the entire text to an editor and search there. If you happen to know the exact tag name, you can find it by scrolling (even that could be accelerated by searching), but if you don't there is no way around copy-paste-search.

Does the window object used by the plugin support searching? If not is there any alternative that could be used?

musselwhizzle commented 4 years ago

Great idea. It's probably possible to add that search feature to the window. Feel free to create a PR to add the feature!

capricorn8 commented 4 years ago

I will look what I can do, but very likely this will be beyond my capabilities. My career as a SW developer has ended 20y ago...

If somebody has some tipps on the exercise (see above questions), these are highly welcome.

capricorn8 commented 3 years ago

With the advise from John R Ellis in Adobe LrC forum, I have been able to add a filter to the metadata dialog, as well as an extra button to open the metadata as a .txt file.

It's working fine for me on Windows; I don't have the chance to test it on Mac. Also, I'm not familiar with Github as a CM system.

If there is someone who is willing to check this out on Mac, and support with adding this new feature to Github, that would be great!

For now, I'm attaching the modified files (all changes have been marked accordingly).

Here is a screenshot of the enhanced dialog:

Metadata display

ChangedFiles.zip

capricorn8 commented 3 years ago

@musselwhizzle

I have never worked with Github, so I'm not sure whether my pull request #160 has ended up in the right place, and includes the proper information (4 updated files, as included in the zip files attached to the previous post).

If you like this improvement and want to merge it to the main branch, I could update the readme as well, if you want me to.

musselwhizzle commented 3 years ago

Hi @capricorn8 - you did it correctly, I reopened the pull request and it has now been merged in. You are welcome to update the readme