Re: [gthumb-list] Selected browser caption fields don't appear unless Comment is opened and closed

[Chris Green <cl isbd net>]

On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 10:32:25PM +0100, Paolo Bacchilega wrote:
> Il 29/12/2011 19:53, Chris Green ha scritto:
> > In preferences I have selected 'Description', 'Date', 'Name' and 'Title'
> > to be displayed in the caption in the browser.  However all that appears
> > is the file name for the image until I click on Comment and then close
> > the Comment window after which all the selected fields appear in the
> > caption.
> >
> > Once I have done this (that is open and close the Comment box) for an
> > image the caption stays populated.  It's going to take a *long* time to
> > do this for several thousand images though!  Is there some way I can get
> > the captions populated automatically?
>
> What exactly happens here is that when you select a file the
> embedded metadata is read and saved in an external comment file that
> will be used by the file list view to display the description, the
> title and the other fields you selected. This is done for
> performance reasons because reading the embedded metadata is a slow
> task.
>
> So actually you can just select the file to synchronize the
> metadata, without the need to open the comment dialog.
When you say "select the file" what do you mean exactly?  If I select
the image in the browser then the caption isn't updated, even if I
'open' (i.e.  display large) the image I don't get the caption.  The
only way I can find to make the caption display appears to be by opening
and closing the comment pop-up.


> Maybe we could add a tool to do this task automatically for all the
> files in the current folder.
Yes, that would certainly be useful, make it recurse through the
hierarchy so that one can do this for a whole directory structure if one
wants to.

-- 
Chris Green