Hello. This is a very specific issue with the Digital Photo Professional 4 program I have, but it's a pretty big issue for me regardless. When I scroll through images to sort them, I use the vertical thumbnail multi-layout view. When I take photos, I usually take several of the same scene (as can be seen on the screenshot). When I scroll down onto a new scene (as done in the screenshot), I would like to know roughly how many of those images I have taken.
The problem I have is that the list only scrolls as you navigate to a list item that's past the visible list litems. I can see the thumbnails of all my previously viewed images, but no thumbnails of images that are next in queue. Knowing how many images I took of a scene if important when sorting, so I tend to manually scroll down the list every time I get to a new scene.
Needless to say this is quite tedious and I would rather see a thumbnail preview of all images next in queue instead of those I've already viewed. Maybe even multiple rows of thumbnails.
Is this something that's possible to do with the software?
EDIT: An elegant way to solve this problem coding-wise would be to have the list scroll in unison with the command of switching to the next / previous image. So the user uses the scroll bar to place the current image where he / she wants it to be, for example perfectly in the middle of the thumbnail list. Then, when the user presses next / previous image the list scrolls the distance of a single thumbnail's size up / down. So the placement of the new current thumbnail remains in the middle of the thumbnail list.
The way I have DPP set up is that the thumbnails of the images in my folder populate the main window instead of the sidebar, but that is just my personal preference. By default, the first image is highlighted. I press Ctrl plus the A key to select all, then select "Edit Image". Now all images in the folder are in line to be edited and can be selected from the panel on the left. Notice in the second screen cap that the file tree is no longer visible, just another personal preference but it gives me more editing area.
Selecting All makes it so that all thumbnails in the folder are available to be selected, from the side bar, during editing. You can either scroll through the thumbnails or use the Arrows at the bottom to go to the next image in the queue, which you have created by selecting all. You can easily back out of this to view other folders by clicking the "Return to main window" button just left of the Edit button.
I hope this helps,
Newton
Your post says this: "The problem I have is that the list only scrolls as you navigate to a list item that's past the visible list items" Not sure exactly what you mean. Once you get to the first image of a string that you are interested in you can manually scroll the first image in your string up to the top (or left if you put thumbnails on the bottom) of the stack but that would only give you 8 (or 16) images in a line.
