elindsa opened this issue on Feb 05, 2011 · 25 posts
bagginsbill posted Sun, 06 February 2011 at 9:02 AM
Quote - All Poser versions have limitations on how to extensively manipulate the library. P8 and PP2010 give you better control and ease to arrange your library as you want. However, the ability to rearrange folders and content within the program still falls short. Your best alternative is still using Windows Browser or ShaderWorks' P8 Extended Library which should work just as well but within Poser. That application can be found @ RuntimeDNA.
The full functionality of folder and file manipulation built into the Poser library is coming, but frankly if you don't know how to do it with your standard operating system tools, you won't know how to do it in Poser either. It's going to be largely the same. IMO building these into Poser is kind of a difficult thing to do well, because the various gestures and conventions of each operating system are different, and it is knowledge of these that makes working with files and folders familiar. Multiple-selection, drag and drop, hot keys for cut/copy/paste, these are things that have nothing to do with Poser, and yet they will have to be built into it to match what people expect from the file explorers they already use. (Or don't use, as in this case. Training will be required no matter what.)
I can almost guarantee that there will always be times that you leave the Poser interface to manage the files and folders in some complicated workflow. Simple things will be possible and convenient - I hope.
One thing I worry about - people have expectations of behavior in file management. Suppose you drag an existing folder into a new place that already has a folder of the same name. What happens next is completely different on Windows versus Mac. What should Poser do? Be inconsistent with itself, or with the OS? Or should it be a user-configurable option?
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