UX/QoL Brainstorming

[UrzasLegacy]

There's already a ton of great tools and features, so it's difficult to think up something useful xD

I'm making this post to have somewhere to put ideas or potential solutions to problem scenarios. Mostly these will be things heavy on frontend code otherwise I'd just do a pull request lol.

Ideas:
A panel to display "My Tags" and allow clicking a tag to prefix/append/insert it into the current text box. Maybe drag and drop as well?
Assignable hotkeys to insert user defined tags at a specified tag index position.
Multiselect images in the Image Grid to apply identical tags to multiple images simultaneously.

AutoTag
Sorting options for the listbox

[Nenotriple]

All great ideas.

A panel to display My Tags and allow clicking a tag to prefix/append/insert it into the current text box. Maybe drag and drop as well?

It would be simple to set up the My Tags tab to use a Listbox for displaying and editing my_tags.csv. This would make it really easy to implement any kind of "insert" logic. It's a lot easier to get a listbox item than it is to parse a tag from a pseudo-csv string.

Assignable hotkeys to insert user defined tags at a specified tag index position.

I've got a bunch of ideas on how to implement this, but mostly I'm concerned with setting up a convenient UI. Instead of using a Listbox for My Tags, we could use a Treeview. That would make it easier to display the tag and associated hotkey, and then the Treeview itself could be used as the hotkey reference.

Multiselect images in the Image Grid to apply identical tags to multiple images simultaneously.

This probably wouldn't be too difficult. With some refactoring, we could actually bring the ImageGrid directly into the UI instead of a pop-up. The thumbnail spacing is pretty broken, so that needs to be fixed before it can go in a resizable frame. I never really figured it out, and it was "good enough".

[Nenotriple]

Some things I've been thinking of.

1. There's a few "Alt-UI" tools, (like Batch Tag Edit), and I'd like to add more tools that take over the entire window, but I want to make it more clear what tools are available. Currently all the Alt-UI tools are opened/closed from the Menubar, and that works fine, but I was thinking it would work better if everything was in a Notebook widget. This way it would be very clear what UI is enabled, and it's easier to swap around. So essentially, there would be a tab row at the top of the window (under the Menubar) that would display options like Main?, Batch Tag Edit, Batch Resize Images, Find Duplicates, Crop Image, etc.

2. It may be convenient to have the various image toggles available as buttons in the UI, like Toggle Thumbnail Panel, Toggle Edit Panel, Toggle Zoom. This is mostly to just make them more apparent, I feel like they're kind of buried and not many would notice them. idk.

3. I've always wanted to allow navigating by clicking the left/right portion of the displayed image. I'm not sure the best way to handle this.

4. I want to incorporate all pop-up tools directly into the UI. Like Upscale, Resize, Image Grid, etc. Instead of taking over the entire window, most of these tools would be better suited to take over half the window, or in the case of Image Grid add a new frame to the window. For example, the Upscale, and Resize tools would be perfect to replace the right half of the UI, so it displays the [image/tool], and hides the ImgTxtViewer.master_control_frame.

   • For Image Grid, I think it would be best to open it as a new frame beside the displayed image. Or maybe there's a way to get Tkinter windows to "snap" together.

5. I want to refactor the construction of ImgTxtViewer UI, moving regions like Thumbnail Panel, Text Box setup, Create Primary UI, Menubar, out of the ImgTxtViewer class, and into their own own .py scripts. I don't want to make things messier though, so it would be best to ensure things are organized going forward. img-txt_viwer.pyw is a pretty chunky file, it's always nice to lighten it up.