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From: nick <>
Subject: [FTST] Re: Dominating programs in FTST (& apologies)
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 11:20:38 +0000
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Mike & Richard,
Many thanks for your replies. Unfortunately the outside world rudely
intruded upon my FTST investigations and I am only returning today, so
my apologies for not replying to you both earlier.
The Exhibits Log takes me roughly 30 seconds to fire up (a LONG time
subjectively and if you are trying to follow a sequence of thoughts on
the screen). The images I have there often stimulate associated ideas
which I would like to follow up - eg: how have I recorded X's wedding
(when viewing a picture of wedding guests) or such like) so I felt it
would be helpful to have some 'look-up capability' whilst in the
Exhibit's Log. Similarly it would be nice to be able to open more than
one Exhibit Log, so that images can be both compared and dragged and
dropped into Slide Show Manager.
The whole thing is made significantly worse by the fact that BOTH the
Exhibits Log and SSM take approx. 30 secs EACH to load, so closing and
opening them is very tedious. (This only happens on my main computer,
my laptop behaves much more sensibly).
Best wishes
Nick

> Mike James wrote:
> >
> > > Similarly the exhibit log locks you
> > > out of FTST so you can't look
> > > things up whilst using exhibit log.
> >
> > Hello Nick,
> > Opening another instance of FTST will allow you to have the exhibit log open
> > and also to look elsewhere.
> >
> > Regards.
> >
> > Mike James
> > Berkshire, UK
>
> Hello Nick and Mike,
>
> Mike is right but if there is a need to "look elsewhere" while the
> Exhibit Log is open, then a second instance of FTST should not be
> needed. A change might be possible if the need exists. The problem I
> have is that I can not think of what I would need to read elsewhere
> while the Exhibit Log is open. In the program where the exhibit is
> made, I can see the need for looking at the equivalent of Details
> while I am entering data about the exhibit but that does not apply to
> FTST.
>
> It will apply to TMG5 so I hope something will be changed so that we
> can not only "look" elsewhere but drag and drop names, dates, etc.
> from Details or other windows to other windows or programs, including
> the Exhibit Log.
>
> I did not trust FTM for storing exhibits. I left them seperate and
> have not entered them into TMG so I am not an experienced Exhibit Log
> user. If Exhibit Log needs to be changed or made better, users need to
> speak up. For example, in Slideshow Manager I would like to be able to
> open two or more instances of SSM so that I can drag and drop a slide,
> including its properties, from one slideshow to another. Exhibit Log
> users need to make there wishes known if something needs to be
> changed.
>
> Richard Brogger

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