In message <7.0.1.0.2.20190212130900.05796440@plymouthcolony.net>, Dale H. Cook <radiotest@plymouthcolony.net> writes: >At 09:12 AM 2/12/2019, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: > >>2. In BK, click "Add Picture". The file selection window opens. > >When I do that the window that opens shows "picture files .jpg .pcx >.png .bmp .gif .tif" in a pick list to the right of the filename pick It does the same for me. >list, and all filenames with those extensions are displayed.in the main >window. Which version of Windows are you running? 7-32. But, if the file is called cat.jpg, and I type cat and press enter, it puts cat.TGA into the grid, even if cat.jpg exists and cat.TGA doesn't (I don't think I have a single .TGA file anywhere). See John Steed's reply. > >Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS, AGS, MA Soc. of Mayflower Descendants; >Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project >Administrator of https://plymouthcolony.net John Gilliver, JPG&PMG and G6JPG... public trees on Ancestry. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Wisdom is the ability to cope. - the late (AB of C) Michael Ramsey, quoted by Stephen Fry (RT 24-30 August 2013)
If I click Add Picture, then type the name of the picture file (e. g. 1761), and press enter, I get "Picture file not found. D:\...\1761.TGA". Obviously, BK has hard-coded into it somewhere a default picture type of .TGA - or is that a setting somewhere I can alter? [Most of my images are .jpg type.] I notice that, as I type the picture filename, a drop-down list appears showing which files match what I'm typing. It'd be nice if, should I type enough for that list to only contain one file, the extension were to be automatically picked up if I should press Enter at that point ... But if I could change the default to .jpg, that'd do for now ... [I guess I could hex-edit the .exe if I can find "TGA", but that'd be naughty (-:!] (I've never come across a ".TGA" file - is it a common image type?] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The motto of the Royal Society is: 'Take nobody's word for it'. Scepticism has value. - Brian Cox, RT 2015/3/14-20
John Unless you changed the location, it should be in a subfolder named Data\Pictures. When you first load BK look at the bottom of the screen it shows the path of your data. Copy the file to that folder first, then attach it to the individual you want. Jim -----Original Message----- From: J. P. Gilliver (John) <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 7:14 PM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: [BK] default picture type? If I click Add Picture, then type the name of the picture file (e. g. 1761), and press enter, I get "Picture file not found. D:\...\1761.TGA". Obviously, BK has hard-coded into it somewhere a default picture type of TGA - or is that a setting somewhere I can alter? [Most of my images are .jpg type.] I notice that, as I type the picture filename, a drop-down list appears showing which files match what I'm typing. It'd be nice if, should I type enough for that list to only contain one file, the extension were to be automatically picked up if I should press Enter at that point ... But if I could change the default to .jpg, that'd do for now ... [I guess I could hex-edit the .exe if I can find "TGA", but that'd be naughty (-:!] (I've never come across a ".TGA" file - is it a common image type?] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The motto of the Royal Society is: 'Take nobody's word for it'. Scepticism has value. - Brian Cox, RT 2015/3/14-20 _______________________________________________ Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/bk@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community
What if you have many pictures associated with an individual but only wish to associate one in BK? Who embeds that one in Data\[Database name]\Picture? As the one and only or a copy of one in My Pictures? Or not in BK but as a link to the file in My Pictures? Or to a file in the cloud? My past method has been to link to a file in My Pictures. But that is fraught with danger if you (or Windows) alter the file path. Or you re-name the file but omit to change the link in BK. At the moment I have no pictures in BK, keeping it smaller for backup purposes. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Jim Dell via BK [mailto:bk@rootsweb.com] Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:26 AM To: bk@rootsweb.com Cc: Jim Dell Subject: [BK] Re: default picture type? John Unless you changed the location, it should be in a subfolder named Data\Pictures. When you first load BK look at the bottom of the screen it shows the path of your data. Copy the file to that folder first, then attach it to the individual you want. Jim -----Original Message----- From: J. P. Gilliver (John) <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 7:14 PM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: [BK] default picture type? If I click Add Picture, then type the name of the picture file (e. g. 1761), and press enter, I get "Picture file not found. D:\...\1761.TGA". Obviously, BK has hard-coded into it somewhere a default picture type of TGA - or is that a setting somewhere I can alter? [Most of my images are .jpg type.] I notice that, as I type the picture filename, a drop-down list appears showing which files match what I'm typing. It'd be nice if, should I type enough for that list to only contain one file, the extension were to be automatically picked up if I should press Enter at that point ... But if I could change the default to .jpg, that'd do for now ... [I guess I could hex-edit the .exe if I can find "TGA", but that'd be naughty (-:!] (I've never come across a ".TGA" file - is it a common image type?] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The motto of the Royal Society is: 'Take nobody's word for it'. Scepticism has value. - Brian Cox, RT 2015/3/14-20 _______________________________________________ Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/bk@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community _______________________________________________ Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/bk@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community
Bill They'll be in the Pictures folder unattached. " Who embeds that one in Data\[Database name]\Picture? " Don't really understand this one, but you copy the photo to the Pictures folder under your BK data folder. The one that displays on the edit screen I think is the first one attached. You can have multiple pictures attached to an individual. Jim -----Original Message----- From: Bill Webster <wbwebster@internode.on.net> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 8:18 PM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: [BK] Re: default picture type? What if you have many pictures associated with an individual but only wish to associate one in BK? Who embeds that one in Data\[Database name]\Picture? As the one and only or a copy of one in My Pictures? Or not in BK but as a link to the file in My Pictures? Or to a file in the cloud? My past method has been to link to a file in My Pictures. But that is fraught with danger if you (or Windows) alter the file path. Or you re-name the file but omit to change the link in BK. At the moment I have no pictures in BK, keeping it smaller for backup purposes. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Jim Dell via BK [mailto:bk@rootsweb.com] Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:26 AM To: bk@rootsweb.com Cc: Jim Dell Subject: [BK] Re: default picture type? John Unless you changed the location, it should be in a subfolder named Data\Pictures. When you first load BK look at the bottom of the screen it shows the path of your data. Copy the file to that folder first, then attach it to the individual you want. Jim -----Original Message----- From: J. P. Gilliver (John) <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 7:14 PM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: [BK] default picture type? If I click Add Picture, then type the name of the picture file (e. g. 1761), and press enter, I get "Picture file not found. D:\...\1761.TGA". Obviously, BK has hard-coded into it somewhere a default picture type of TGA - or is that a setting somewhere I can alter? [Most of my images are .jpg type.] I notice that, as I type the picture filename, a drop-down list appears showing which files match what I'm typing. It'd be nice if, should I type enough for that list to only contain one file, the extension were to be automatically picked up if I should press Enter at that point ... But if I could change the default to .jpg, that'd do for now ... [I guess I could hex-edit the .exe if I can find "TGA", but that'd be naughty (-:!] (I've never come across a ".TGA" file - is it a common image type?] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf The motto of the Royal Society is: 'Take nobody's word for it'. Scepticism has value. - Brian Cox, RT 2015/3/14-20 _______________________________________________ Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/bk@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community _______________________________________________ Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/bk@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community _______________________________________________ Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/bk@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community
Jim and Bill, you've not quite grasped the problem I was describing. (more below ...) In message <008801d4c273$00ab7050$020250f0$@yahoo.com>, Jim Dell via BK <bk@rootsweb.com> writes: >Bill >They'll be in the Pictures folder unattached. > >" Who embeds that one in Data\[Database name]\Picture? " >Don't really understand this one, but you copy the photo to the Pictures >folder under your BK data folder. >The one that displays on the edit screen I think is the first one attached. >You can have multiple pictures attached to an individual. Yes, the _location_ of the file isn't the problem I was describing. I do have a folder below where the database is (though for historical reasons it's called PICS rather than the default, for my main database). I also have subfolders to that one, called things like births, baptisms, marriages, houses, ships, ... but that's not the problem I was describing. (more below ...) > >Jim > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bill Webster <wbwebster@internode.on.net> >Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 8:18 PM >To: bk@rootsweb.com >Subject: [BK] Re: default picture type? > >What if you have many pictures associated with an individual but only wish >to associate one in BK? >Who embeds that one in Data\[Database name]\Picture? As the one and only or >a copy of one in My Pictures? Or not in BK but as a link to the file in My >Pictures? Or to a file in the cloud? >My past method has been to link to a file in My Pictures. But that is >fraught with danger if you (or Windows) alter the file path. Or you re-name >the file but omit to change the link in BK. At the moment I have no >pictures in BK, keeping it smaller for backup purposes. >Bill Yes, I have subfolders. And JS has added a global "change path" function for picture and media files; while that's very clunky compared to accepting - and using - _relative_ paths, it does at least make it _possible_ to move/copy a database (or just its pictures and media files) to a different location. But that's not the problem I was describing: more below ... > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jim Dell via BK [mailto:bk@rootsweb.com] >Sent: Tuesday, 12 February 2019 11:26 AM >To: bk@rootsweb.com >Cc: Jim Dell >Subject: [BK] Re: default picture type? > >John >Unless you changed the location, it should be in a subfolder named >Data\Pictures. > >When you first load BK look at the bottom of the screen it shows the path of >your data. > >Copy the file to that folder first, then attach it to the individual you >want. > >Jim It's not the location, but the default _type_ I'm asking about. (And what I'm asking about is true whatever directory/folder you're looking in.) To demonstrate: 1. Put a picture file - it can be of your cat if you want! - in whatever folder you like, including the default one. But ensure the part of the filename before the dot (period) is unique in that folder. Let's say the picture file is called "cat.jpg". 2. In BK, click "Add Picture". The file selection window opens. If you didn't put it in the default folder for your database, navigate to the folder you did put it in. 3. Still in the file selection window, ensuring the cursor is in the filename box, press the following four keys in sequence: C, A, T, Enter. When you type C, all the files in the folder whose name begins with C will appear in a drop-down list. When you then type A, that list will be reduced to only the files whose name begins with CA. When you then type T, the drop-down list should just show the one file, cat.jpg. When you press the Enter key, the file selection window will disappear, and the filename CAT.TGA (prepended with the correct path) will appear in the BK grid of filenames. 4. Switch to another person in BK, then come back to the person you tried to attach cat.jpg to (and select the Pictures tab if not on it, and use the long thin ">" button if necessary to bring the file into view, if you already have more than four [or whatever] pictures attached to that person]). You will get a message "file ...cat.TGA not found". I was just asking if there's somewhere I can change the default picture filetype from .TGA (a filetype I am unfamiliar with). > >-----Original Message----- >From: J. P. Gilliver (John) <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> >Sent: Monday, February 11, 2019 7:14 PM >To: bk@rootsweb.com >Subject: [BK] default picture type? > >If I click Add Picture, then type the name of the picture file (e. g. >1761), and press enter, I get "Picture file not found. D:\...\1761.TGA". >Obviously, BK has hard-coded into it somewhere a default picture type of TGA >- or is that a setting somewhere I can alter? [Most of my images are .jpg >type.] > >I notice that, as I type the picture filename, a drop-down list appears >showing which files match what I'm typing. It'd be nice if, should I type >enough for that list to only contain one file, the extension were to be >automatically picked up if I should press Enter at that point ... > >But if I could change the default to .jpg, that'd do for now ... > >[I guess I could hex-edit the .exe if I can find "TGA", but that'd be >naughty (-:!] > >(I've never come across a ".TGA" file - is it a common image type?] >-- >J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > >The motto of the Royal Society is: 'Take nobody's word for it'. Scepticism >has value. - Brian Cox, RT 2015/3/14-20 [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "Grammar is there to help, not hinder." -- Mark Wallace, APIHNA, 2nd December 2000 (quoted by John Flynn 2000-12-6)
At 09:12 AM 2/12/2019, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: >2. In BK, click "Add Picture". The file selection window opens. When I do that the window that opens shows "picture files .jpg .pcx .png .bmp .gif .tif" in a pick list to the right of the filename pick list, and all filenames with those extensions are displayed.in the main window. Which version of Windows are you running? Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS, AGS, MA Soc. of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of https://plymouthcolony.net
To J P Gilliver If you see what you want on the list of pictures, tap the down arrow key and select the file with its extension. Then press Enter to select it. I will change the default to .jpg in the next update. The program has a list of picture file types, and it was defaulting to the .tga one if you did not give an extension. But I will change the order of the list so it defaults to .jpg in the future. John Steed ________________________________ From: Dale H. Cook <radiotest@plymouthcolony.net> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 6:14 PM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: [BK] Re: default picture type? At 09:12 AM 2/12/2019, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: >2. In BK, click "Add Picture". The file selection window opens. When I do that the window that opens shows "picture files .jpg .pcx .png .bmp .gif .tif" in a pick list to the right of the filename pick list, and all filenames with those extensions are displayed.in the main window. Which version of Windows are you running? Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS, AGS, MA Soc. of Mayflower Descendants; Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project Administrator of https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fplymouthcolony.net&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc5e63add07964c56fc1208d691160fef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636855921272189065&sdata=hB%2FphxWl6%2Fa6VwBK3ajyhrKu7JoENmWVgTClS59OVkM%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Remember - Use the Archives at https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchiver.rootsweb.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fsearch&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc5e63add07964c56fc1208d691160fef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636855921272189065&sdata=rfOU9xIuMWBG01cgYObt9dDxG2vqg4czWnukiXgTOf0%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Email preferences: https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Frootswebpref&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc5e63add07964c56fc1208d691160fef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636855921272189065&sdata=bUp2ljiyudNCtwU4k5LmbogaMQq9RmrabQwP8WB0v4k%3D&reserved=0 Unsubscribe https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.rootsweb.com%2Fpostorius%2Flists%2Fbk%40rootsweb.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc5e63add07964c56fc1208d691160fef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636855921272189065&sdata=M1PQnhlyqExDyEgKPj2fZDnQZSiM0tChRZ1gj6l%2B37M%3D&reserved=0 Privacy Statement: https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fancstry.me%2F2JWBOdY&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc5e63add07964c56fc1208d691160fef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636855921272189065&sdata=vrj6CFKbClF6zvZK%2FcYaEt8qSNz%2BL%2FxlFLq2PXgB06Y%3D&reserved=0 Terms and Conditions: https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fancstry.me%2F2HDBym9&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc5e63add07964c56fc1208d691160fef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636855921272189065&sdata=5HW5LNS%2F9FkhkRx1sf%2F4sUneEHRrth%2FJkwbrWk%2BjRsw%3D&reserved=0 Rootsweb Blog: https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frootsweb.blog&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cc5e63add07964c56fc1208d691160fef%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636855921272189065&sdata=mU19VPCuppWmAtxM9eQ3Ad7pv%2Bq9oOd2xA%2BrZJWpmQs%3D&reserved=0 RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community
In message <DM6PR02MB58819A5884CDC6F031066AD891650@DM6PR02MB5881.namprd02.prod.outlo ok.com>, John Steed <brothers_keeper@msn.com> writes: >To J P Gilliver > >If you see what you want on the list of pictures, tap the down arrow >key and select the file with its extension. > >Then press Enter to select it. Thanks, that's what I've been doing once I worked out what's happening. > >I will change the default to .jpg in the next update. The program has >a list of picture file types, and it was defaulting to the .tga one if >you did not give an extension. But I will change the order of the list >so it defaults to .jpg in the future. Thanks. No hurry. > >John Steed > John G (@jpeg_G6) [] -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Wisdom is the ability to cope. - the late (AB of C) Michael Ramsey, quoted by Stephen Fry (RT 24-30 August 2013)