This afternoon, I whipped up a little gramplet to show media thumbnails for a person. This includes images for the person, images for the person’s citations, and the images for the citations for the events. I make heavy use of images of scans of original source documents in my citations, and I often refer back to them. That normally involves opening the event for a person, clicking on a citation, going to the gallery, clicking on the thumbnail, then right-clicking on “View”. A time-consuming series of steps. I wanted an easy way to get to the images. With this simple gramplet, I can double-click on the thumbnail to quickly pull up an image. Here’s what it looks like for me: [Screenshot from 2021-09-04 16-07-44] Is anyone else interested in such a gramplet? Any comments on this gramplet? (At the moment it’s still pretty rough, and I can already see places for improvement.) Oh yeah, you can download it from https://github.com/hgboldt/images https://github.com/hgboldt/deepgallery. Cheers! Hans

[image] ukulelehans: The title is a working name. I would appreciate any suggestions for a better name. Perhaps “Deep Gallery”? Hmmm… “Personal Gallery”? Or maybe something incorporating “archive” or “fond”? Maybe the name should be pitched so that it will fall amongst Gramplets also dealing with images? We’ve got: Media Browser Media Merge Media Verify (tool) Photo Tagging Thumbnail Generator (tool) Edit Image Exif Metadata Media Report (report) Built-ins Media Manager Gallery [various categories] Image Metadata Media Preview Media References Y’know… Your approach might make a good enhancement to eventually roll into the built-in Gallery Gramplets. There could be a “recursive dive” configuration option into a new universal Gallery Gramplet. Optionally showing thumbnails of media for all secondary objects instead of those of just the primary object. Then, instead of separate Gramplets hard-coded for each category, it detects the ‘parent’ category of View splitbar and has its refresh be tied to changing of the active record in that Category.

Hmmm, I like the idea of a universal gallery gramplet. I’ll see what I can figure out. I’m not sure I see much usefulness apart from Person objects though. If we want to generalize this further, perhaps we should have a gramplet that shows for any type of object a tree view of all child objects of any type. Call it a “Deep Object Browser”. Regarding naming, I’m leaning towards “Deep Gallery”. Unlike the other myriad gallery gramplets, this has the concept of diving deep into the child objects. Cheers! Hans

Hmmm, looking at the existing Gramps code, it doesn’t look like it lends itself nicely to a universal deep dive type of addon. The methods for each type of object seem to be type-based, not generic. That is, coding for a deep dive would be procedural, and not OO style. I’m not sure how far I want to go down that particular development path.

I do not know how much of Gramps core is Procedural vs OO. Your Gramplet already does most of what the Gallery built-in Gramplet does in the People category gramplet. (Both are different from the functionalities of the Edit Person Gallery tab.) Maybe starting with your code as a base would be an alternative? The 6 things the Person view Gallery does differently are: the gallery objects are unlabeled. the thumbnails are a larger scale the thumbnail shown is of the Preview rectangle, not the full image only the top-level image thumbnails are displayed the “Make active Media” context menu is only available for image-type objects, not for placeholder icons. (This seems like an oversight.) arrangement is horizontal rather than vertical Neither gramplet has Configuration options. If the behavior differences could replicated with different option selections, then maybe that would be a good approach. Regardless of whether your addon becomes a direct replacement, it would be nice if it had a configuration option for double-click action. During data entry, it would be efficient if double-click opened the Gramps object editor. When using Gramps as a research tool, having double-click Launch the OS viewer/editor would probably be better. Perhaps you could make ANY of the Context menu actions the double-click. (And change the roll-over hint. Perhaps even indicate that Config selection in the Contextual pop-up menu as bold, italic or bulleted.) Naturally, always having the Actions as Context Menu options supports tech support because then the step-by-step instructions specifying Context Menu would always work. @Nick-Hall would have to say if an Object Oriented module could be a candidate to replace a category spectrum of procedural modules in the core. It might be instructional to re-purpose the built-in Galleries as add-on sample code.

The new gramplet looks useful; thanks for sharing it. Another approach to such “deep” connections would be new filter rules such as “Media objects for people matching the ”, “Media objects for events matching the ”, “Media objects for citations matching the ”, etc. Then one could create custom filters such as “Census page images for the active person”, “Death certificate images for (a particular cause of death)”, etc.

I was suggesting custom filters in the media category, not the people category. (And I just noticed that my post did not display the “ ” part correctly, so I fixed that.)

Thank you Hans. Just two questions…how does one install it? and then how does one invoke it?

I am excited about your Image Gramplet. I have been adding images to the respective Galleries for a long time without much hope of them being useful. Please add the Places Gallery. Since I don’t trust myself to deal with GitHub, I shall eagerly await your appearance in the Add-Ons. Thanks, Elvin

[image] Brinycoolie: Just two questions…how does one install it? and then how does one invoke it? Manually installing: Download the ZIP from https://github.com/hgboldt/images [image] Close Gramps find the \gramps51\plugins\ folder in the in your User Directory open the downloaded ZIP file drag the images-main folder to make its own folder in the \gramps51\plugins\ folder restart Gramps (the new plug-in will be registered automatically) Invoking: add the “Images” gramplet to the People view’s sidebar or bottombar

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PLegoux September 5, 2021, 8:09pm 10

It seems it is complicated to filter media from people category. I’d made that try, it works fine but I can’t select media filter, just use it’s name: Adding a Match media filter in Persons filters

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