I've implemented a plugin which imports face tag data from Windows Live Photo Gallery (WLPG) into MC. Now, how to display this data in the views?
As far as I understand (using MS Spy++), "JRiver Display Window" and the other MC windows never issue WM_PAINTs. This means that I cannot draw in the window. (Or can I? tips would be welcome. Transparent overlays are out of the question since they grab mouse clicks.)
Obviously, MC will never be better at facetagging that Picasa or any of the other applications out there. So basically this job should be "delegated to other apps.
So, my suggestions are:
(1) Provide a callback method system with a graphics object and rectangle for the various display views that deal with pictures.
or
(2) Define a pattern which a new tag, for example "FaceTag" should follow. The FaceTag pattern could be
Name1,X11,Y11,X12,Y12;Name2, X21,Y21,X22,Y22,...
MC could then render these rectangles + names.The users will fill in this pattern through plugins. Many sources could be used: WLPG, Picasa, Adobe,... And maybe supply a simple tagging mechanism. Preferably, the data would be filled in by plugins.
Author
Topic: Suggestions on how MC could relate to Face tag data. (Read 888 times)