2024-01-02, 04:56 PM
There are many questions to think about... I think the best way to go depends on the functionality that will be implemented and there could be some iterative way with little steps instead of a "big bang" with all features that we have talked about.
A good first step could be to enable ST4 to reach existing informations and images with "one simple click": for a connection to astrobin for example it would be great:
- when the user can push a button in ST4 object info dialogue and this opens the webbrowser with the astrobin search url filled with the name of the object, so all available images for the object are displayed in the webbrowser
- it would be great, if the user could then copy the url of one image out of the result list in the browser and paste it in some way into ST4 object info dialogue. ST4 parses the URL and offers some download of the image. I think this will be not very easy.
- maybe it is possible that ST4 uses the astrobin API to do searches and get access to the images: https://de.welcome.astrobin.com/applicat...-interface
- ST4 could download the image via the API. Or the images will be downloaded instantly when they have to be displayed in ST4, so no local cache/download is needed (performance?)
- every image attached to an object could be marked as "show as thumbnail", only one can marked if there more than one images attached: the mouse over in the list view uses this image to display
This are some first ideas...
CS
Markus
A good first step could be to enable ST4 to reach existing informations and images with "one simple click": for a connection to astrobin for example it would be great:
- when the user can push a button in ST4 object info dialogue and this opens the webbrowser with the astrobin search url filled with the name of the object, so all available images for the object are displayed in the webbrowser
- it would be great, if the user could then copy the url of one image out of the result list in the browser and paste it in some way into ST4 object info dialogue. ST4 parses the URL and offers some download of the image. I think this will be not very easy.
- maybe it is possible that ST4 uses the astrobin API to do searches and get access to the images: https://de.welcome.astrobin.com/applicat...-interface
- ST4 could download the image via the API. Or the images will be downloaded instantly when they have to be displayed in ST4, so no local cache/download is needed (performance?)
- every image attached to an object could be marked as "show as thumbnail", only one can marked if there more than one images attached: the mouse over in the list view uses this image to display
This are some first ideas...
CS
Markus