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FEATURE REQUEST: Tag Window Menu additional options
HPBEME:
The Advanced (Experimental) tag window currently has only a single option in the menu… Customize (which opens the dialog to customize your tag groups). I request that the following options be added to enhance usability:
*Collapse All Tag Groups
*Expand All Tag Groups
*Toggle Auto-Expand/Collapse
-Currently when you expand a tag group, it stays open/closed until you close/open it (thus the first 2 items in the list).
-This option would automatically collapse the currently open tab group when you click on a different tag group header to expand it
-This option would toggle between the current “stay open” behavior and using an auto-expand/collapse workflow
-This behavior is already standard for the Panes View, so I presume it can be incorporated in the Tag Window too
-e.g., you’ve defined multiple Genre’s with sub-styles, and when you click on a different Genre, the open one collapses, and the newly selected Genre expands to show all its sub-styles
*Toggle Tag Window Style
-This would toggle between the Standard Tag Window (where all tags are sorted alphabetically) and the Advanced Tag Window (where you customize the tags into groups and order tags as desired)
-This menu item would be added to both the Standard and Advanced Tag Window menu list.
-Having this in the menu would also expose the Advanced Tag Window functionality that many users may never become aware of otherwise.
-I only discovered the Advanced Tag Window when I stumbled across it looking for something completely unrelated, and a post mentioned using “shift-click” to activate the "other" Tag Window.
-I remember thinking… What? What other Tag Window?… and I had been using MC for over a decade at that point.
-For users who never come to the forum (which I imagine is the vast majority of MC users), they may never discover this awesome tagging interface… and even then, I only found it on the forum by dumb luck.
markf2748:
--- Quote from: HPBEME on November 17, 2021, 09:49:51 pm --- -I only discovered the Advanced Tag Window when I stumbled across it looking for something completely unrelated, and a post mentioned using “shift-click” to activate the "other" Tag Window.
-I remember thinking… What? What other Tag Window?… and I had been using MC for over a decade at that point.
--- End quote ---
+1 for *Toggle Tag Window Style (but I prefer the label "Standard View")
Thanks for that! I only discovered the Standard Tag Window today after reading this post - I've been stuck in the Advanced Tag Window for as long as I can remember (granted, not a high bar). :)
Also add "Advanced View" to the little box menu in the Standard Tag Window.
Related: Show two toggle tags tooltips when hovering over the tag window icon (added to my top menu bar):
Advanced Tag (Alt + Enter) for Advanced show/hide
Standard Tag (Shift + Enter) for Standard show/hide
Tag icon remembers the last used style, as it does now.
Note: It seems current functions of (Shift + Enter) are duplicated by (Control + Enter), so the former should be available for re-assignment.
Currently (Shift + click tag window icon) shows Standard Tag Window.
For completeness and symmetry, add (Alt + click tag window icon) shows Advanced Tag Window.
Doof:
I must have switched on the Advanced Tage Editor a long time ago because I didn't even realize the Standard version was still even there.
But since we're on the subject, I think another option the Advanced editor needs is a Refresh button (or at least be updated by the existing refresh button).
I set up several templates in the Advanced Tag Editor to customize which sets of tags appear for the various Media Subtypes I use. If I change this field to a different value, the tag editor doesn't refresh which template it uses until I either close the editor window or deselect the file and re-select it. Closing the tag editor and re-opening it is a chore, but it's the only way to do it if you have multiple files selected, otherwise you'd need to re-select the entire group again, which can be an even bigger chore.
So it'd be awesome if you could just click the existing refresh button (or F5) and have the tag editor also refresh and choose the appropriate template.
HPBEME:
Great additional enhancement ideas from Markf and Doof.
It had not occurred to me that the std tag window would be the version that is "never seen", but there you go. I guess now MC does all new installs with the Advanced Tag Window active by default? I just assumed it was still the Std version. I do love love love the Advanced version, but... there are occasions when seeing every tag listed in alphabetical order is useful (to distinguish what the only difference might be between otherwise duplicate files for example).
Well hopefully Matt will take these suggestions up. The new menu items I suggested just seem like no-brainers to me. The current menu is not really a menu at all with only a single line item.
comox:
If you're changing things in this area please also consider:
1) Stop that irritating flashing when the tag window is first opened. I'm always in a hurry and it drives me crazy wasting a second for it to settle down so I can use it.
2) Make the tag window artwork image scale larger as I widen the window so I can more easily assess the quality of artwork.
3) When both the tag window and tree are visible, make it possible to change the size of the split. I always need more space for the tag window and will happily shrink the tree to make room. I can't close the tree because I still need access to it.
4) Make it easier to grab the scroll bar in the tag window. I almost always miss it on my first attempt with the mouse.
Thanks.
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