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[Doof]

At the risk of causing Matt any premature baldness...

(or is it too late?)

I was browsing my library tonight using the Tiles View and something kind of hit me.

I have an images view scheme of Picture Type\Album\Sub Album 1\Sub Album 2

An example of how this might be filled in is like this:

Picture Type : Personal
Album          : Florida
Sub Album 1 : 2006
Sub Album 2 : Cave Diving

But I also have pictures that fall into this category:

Picture Type : Personal
Album          : Pets
Sub Album 1 :
Sub Album 2 :

So I was doing double clicking to drill down into the Pets album and found myself double clicking Pets, then Unassigned, then Unassigned again to get to the Files level.

So I was wondering... would it be possible for MC to just skip the two Sub Album levels (since their Unassigned) and go straight from Album to Files on the next double click? Obviously if you were double clicking on anything that had a mix of Unassigned and a Sub Album, then it would still show that Sub Album alongside Unassigned. Does that make sense?

Yes, I know I could have used the View menu to jump straight down to Files once I hit Pets, but once you get your rhythm going, sometimes it's easier just to keep on going.

[glynor]

I'd like it, but I won't cry if it doesn't happen.

You can just use the "Files" link on the Tile right?

[Doof]

Yeah, I can. And I won't cry either. Just thought it would be cool if MC could intelligently skip over empty fields like that. Obviously the tile view is the only one this would work for.

And it's mostly for people who aren't familiar with my library. I know that a certain album doesn't have a Sub Album, but they might not, and double clicking on two or three "Unassigned"s might make them wonder if anything was happening at all.

Just a thought.

[Jaguu]

Yes, it would be a very good idea. I also have plenty of user defined tags, but not all of them are used all the time, example:

I have a view scheme for artworks with the following tags:

Artist
Name
Movement
Gallery
PaintPeriod
PaintCycle
PaintYear
PaintSize
PaintStyle

For many artists either PaintPeriod, PaintCycle, PaintSize or PaintStyle are empty. This leads as Doof mentions to many superfluous clicks. This is also a reason why I maintain more view schemes that would really be necessary, just to reach the desired information more quickly.

[glynor]

And it's mostly for people who aren't familiar with my library. I know that a certain album doesn't have a Sub Album, but they might not, and double clicking on two or three "Unassigned"s might make them wonder if anything was happening at all.

Hadn't thought about other people when I wrote that.  It would also REALLY help Theater View if this were true.

Actually, I mentioned this on the other thread, but I really think Theater View should mirror the Tile-View in almost every way, except have separate font sizing and tile size/spacing settings (and keep the very simple left-hand control system).