profile images

[techwizard]

is there any sense to the way images are laid out on your collection profile page? i'm trying to upload my images in a specific order, but it seems to place them completely randomly.

[Hungrymoose]

I've noticed this as well.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

Took a quick look at this...it's because we use Perl's readdir function, which has some arbitrary way of accessing the files in the collection directory. We can likely sort it - how would you prefer?

[techwizard]

well the ideal way in my opinion would be if we could rearrange them after they've been uploaded. the best way being something like how facebook does it if you're familiar with that, where editing an album allows you to actually click and drag the thumbnail into the location you want. if that's too difficult to code right now, then just a button to move an image one space farther right or one space back left for each image...only viewable to the person who the profile belongs to of course.

or the super simple but also acceptable solution would be to just have it sort the images left to right, top to bottom, by file name like windows folders do it. that way the order they're uploaded will actually be the order they show up in.

[Izret101]

If you look at my profile i named them alphabeitcally
A B C D etc
If memory serves that put them in the order i wanted them in

EDIT
Never mind.
They are all kinds of messed up.

[Shadow Kisuragi]

The images are uploaded with the file names intact, just as an FYI. If I sort them alphabetically, they would have to be named appropriately. If you're fine with that, I'll make the change.

[techwizard]

The images are uploaded with the file names intact, just as an FYI. If I sort them alphabetically, they would have to be named appropriately. If you're fine with that, I'll make the change.

ya that's what i meant by the third option i listed, as long as it sorts numerically as well...the pictures were taken in the order i wanted them to appear, so the camera's file numbering is how i hoped they would be sorted.