Re: Tagging Photo Regions

["Robert Paskowitz" <rpaskowitz confucius ca>]

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Robert Paskowitz
<rpaskowitz confucius ca> wrote:
>
>  Enough to convince me. Please find a patch adding the ability to tag
>  specific areas of a photo at
>  http://confucius.ca/fspot/tag_area-001.patch. You should also get the
>  3 PNG images from http://confucius.ca/fspot/ and place them in the
>  icons/ directory.
>
>  The patch is against revision 3849.
>
>  I also plan to extend the work a little bit more so that a tag may
>  have a colour associated with it so that you can have different
>  regions marked in different colours. The association will likely be to
>  the tag itself and not the "photo_tag" entry, so the colour will be
>  consistent for all markings of a particular tag. Most of the work is
>  done, I just need to add some GUI surrounding selecting the colour.
>
>  To use the functionality in the patch, you may make a selection while
>  in the single photo view mode and click on the monkey icon on the
>  toolbar. After selecting the tag to associate, the region will be
>  surrounded in a green box. Right-clicking on that region will show at
>  the top of the menu the name of the tag, and at the bottom two new
>  menu items; one to remove the tagged region and another to associate
>  the region with a new tag.
>
>  There is also a menu item under the View menu to control if tagged
>  regions are shown or not (you may not always want them to be seen).
>
>  Comments and suggestions appreciated,
>
>  -Rob
>

One thing I forgot to mention is that I have not dealt with database
upgrading, so you will want to remove your current database or use a
command line switch to temporarily point to another directory.