juzzlin
Add image preview in boxes, and copy-pasting images into individual thoughts
Hi,
Currently you can attach images by right-clicking on the node and choosing "Attach image". It's a bit different as it currently show the attached image as a background image that is resized based on the node size.
Could you explain a bit what you mean by "copy-pasting images into individual thoughts" :)
@juzzlin I would like to associate each message with an image by pasting images from google or screenshot capturing programs. Setting an image as the background of a node does not provide enough space to see the image, while also making the text harder to read.
How about adding a new node type instead? Image node, without possibility to add text to it, just displaying image. I believe this would be more in the spirit of mind maps and more intuitive.
Things that would need to be added:
- Node types (?), possibly related to #81 if submaps are going to be another node type.
- Image nodes, connecting them with normal nodes.
- Menu button to load image + shortcut. After loading image, automatically create an image node, with size exact to that of the image resolution.
- Node handle/button to resize the node (while keeping the ratio of width/height).
- Node menu button (right-click menu) to reset image to its original size.
Buttons to change background/text color are not needed.
Edit: Should I post this as another issue?
Edit2: What about storing images?I'm not sure if they should be stored just as file paths or more portably in a project folder/file. There could be a setting for it too. To implement copy-pasting from screen capturing programs/google, project storage would be needed.
Currently the attached images are being embedded in the .ALZ file, so that part already works.
I'm starting to like the idea of special image etc nodes. It could also work so that double-clicking on the image node would open a bigger image viewer.
I'm starting to like the idea of special image etc nodes. It could also work so that double-clicking on the image node would open a bigger image viewer.
Yeah, another useful special node type would be "Reference node" that displays the contents of another node (text+image) and updates itself whenever the referenced node is updated. To differentiate it from other nodes, its color can be different, for example 50% transparency. Another special property: click on a reference move to move screen to its source node.
It would be useful for large mind maps when I want to relate nodes in different parts of the map to the same "category" or similar. I can't link them all to one place because the distances are too great and it starts lagging, and also because it isn't easily visible as connected to these nodes. I just create multiple instances of the same node right now which is a waste, especially if I ever need to modify it.
But that's for another issue I suppose. I'm going to merge these ideas into a new one. Edit: #182