Support for Images - Githubissues

monobasic commented 11 years ago

Hi there! Would it be hard to add support for images? It would be cool to be able to make a photo of the current settings of the Guitar Pedal Board and add it to the notes. Same for other Gear Pieces without recall possibilities..

nikreiman commented 11 years ago

@monobasic great suggestion! I am in the process of rewriting AUNotes to use the Juce framework, which really improves text editing on all platforms (and will also allow for a VST version). Looking at the API documentation, it doesn't seem that Juce's TextEditor supports embedded images, though. However, being able to place a single image in the note doesn't seem to be too difficult, there are a few ways I can think of doing this in the plugin:

Have a separate area for the image and then a button to load a file there.
- Make the plugin window resizable (which is a bit tricky and not supported by all hosts), and then automatically expand the image area when the user loads an image into the plugin.
- Have a separate area for an image which is static and filled with a placeholder text when no image is present in the note.
Have a tabview to switch between the note text and image
Have a dropdown menu to allow the user to select the note "type", either text or image (I'm leaning towards this option)

Can you think of any other ways that the image could fit in the plugin UI? Of the ways that I suggested, which sounds best from a user standpoint?

monobasic commented 11 years ago

Hi there :) Well, I am not familiar with Plugin development, but of your suggestions, I like the ones that allows one to have a note text and a image at the same time. So separated areas for image/text would be better imo..

nikreiman commented 11 years ago

Do you think that having multiple images per note is necessary for this feature to be useful? Or is a single image enough?

monobasic commented 11 years ago

One image would be very cool allready, to attach a photo of the pedalboard with the used settings. If I am not wrong it would be possible to use several instances of your plugin for the same track, right? This way you could have multiple images when needed..

nikreiman commented 11 years ago

That was my thinking as well. I think that supporting multiple images per plugin would be quite difficult, not only from a structural standpoint but also from a UI organization one. So that's why I'm leaning towards note text + 1 image. I'll probably put them in a tabview, and at least have the plugin save the tab state. That way, if you only have an image and no text, the user won't need to always switch tabs when the plugin starts.

monobasic commented 11 years ago

Sounds great to me!

nikreiman commented 10 years ago

I'm pleased to announce that this feature has been implemented and will be in the upcoming ExtraNotes-3.0 release! For more details, see:

http://teragonaudio.blogspot.se/2013/12/pluginparameters-improvements-and.html

teragonaudio / ExtraNotes

Support for Images #17