Image Windows
Images that are part of your collection can be viewed in separate windows, allowing you to look at images in a larger format, along with ability to view the images at their full resolution.
Thumbnail images are displayed in the thumbnail banner on the List tab, in the cells of the Image Gallery tab, as well as in the Item Details display for a single record. All these thumbnail images are clickable hyperlinks, that allow you to bring up a separate image window:
The image window initially appears with the image scaled to fit the size of the window. If you resize the image window, making it wider or narrower, taller or shorter, the image will re-scale automatically to fully fit within the window.
To view the image at its full resolution, click the Full size button.
View the image window with the image at full resolution ... |
When the image is displayed at full resolution, the button at the lower right is labeled Scale to fit, and clicking on it will re-size the image so that it completely fits in the available space.
When displayed at full resolution, if the image does not fully fit in the available space, you can use the scroll bars or you can use your mouse to drag the image around so that you can make visible any desired part of the overall image.
By default, each image window opens with the image displayed in scaled mode. You can change this default by selecting Recollector > Preferences from Recollector's menu, choosing the Images tab in the Preferences dialog, and then turning on the Start image viewer display with full resolution images check box.
Use the Print button to print out the image. The image will be automatically scaled to fit on the printed page.
If the image comes from a record that has more than one image associated with it, click one of the arrow buttons to switch the display to the next or previous image for this record. (The arrow buttons are not displayed if the collection record has just a single image.)
Managing image windows:
The initial size of image viewer windows is specified via preferences. The default size is 450 points high by 600 points wide. To change this preference, select Recollector > Preferences from Recollector's menu, choose the Images tab in the Preferences dialog, and then specify a width and height for the Initial size for image viewer windows.
By default, each image window opens with the window displayed at the size specified by the height and width preferences mentioned in the prior paragraph. If you prefer to always have your image viewer windows start up in a full-screen display, you can specify this by selecting Recollector > Preferences from Recollector's menu, choosing the Images tab in the Preferences dialog, and then turning on the Start image viewer windows initially full screen check box.
Image windows can be left on-screen, even as you return to look at your collection window. The Windows menu has an Image Windows sub-menu that lets you locate and bring to the front any still-open image window. An open image window will stay open even if the collection from which it was launched is closed.
You can close image windows individually (with the Close button on the window), or you can close all open image windows by choosing Windows > Close All Image Windows from Recollector's menu.
Image windows created from the data-entry/editing window:
Next to the Browse button of every image/audio/video field in a data-entry/editing window is a Test button. You can use this button to open an image viewer window on the image file (or files) referenced in the field. This provides a way to verify that an image reference in your collection really points to a valid, viewable image file. Unlike the image windows that come up from the Item Details tab, the List tab or the Image Gallery tab, the image windows that come up from the data-entry/editing window are not independent. You must explicitly dismiss the test image window to continue working with Recollector.
If the image/audio/video field contains references to more than one file, the Test button will first display an image window for the first file, and, when you have dismissed that image window, the program will ask whether to continue on to the next file. You can skip any files that you don't want to test, or you can cancel the testing of all remaining files in the field.
Though the description here refers to this as testing images, if any of the files are audio or video files, these will be tested using the built-in media player window, rather than with an image window. But, in all other respects, the testing of audio or video files is handled the same way as the testing of image files.