Drag -n- Drop to Image Explorer

Post by **dorpond** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:00 pm

I was just thinking how nice it would be to be able to drag and drop internet images directly into Image Explorer and have those files go directly into the directories in the file system.

This would greatly speed up my "snagging" instead of opening up all my directories on the C drive and dragging them there.

Just an idea that came up as I was map building.

ego093 · Post by **ego093** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:54 pm

Seconded.

Post by **trevor** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:22 pm

That would be pretty easy. I'll add a tracker.

dLANbandit · Post by **dLANbandit** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:35 pm

"snagging" v. verb - i. catching a garment or other textile on something, that causes a rip or tear.
ii. "If you can right click it, it's yours."

snikle · Post by **snikle** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:40 am

dLANbandit wrote:"snagging" v. verb - ii. "If you can right click it, it's yours."

LOL that is just sooo wrong, but hey I am right there with ya!

Dracorat · Post by **Dracorat** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:30 pm

While you are at it, could you make tokens droppable on to the system in the same manner?

Phergus · Post by **Phergus** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:41 pm

Dracorat wrote:While you are at it, could you make tokens droppable on to the system in the same manner?

From MT onto your computer?

We've already had this discussion and the answer is no.

Post by **trevor** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:50 pm

Dracorat wrote:While you are at it, could you make tokens droppable on to the system in the same manner?

I'm not following ... ??

Dracorat · Post by **Dracorat** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 1:04 pm

Phergus wrote:
Dracorat wrote:While you are at it, could you make tokens droppable on to the system in the same manner?
From MT onto your computer?

We've already had this discussion and the answer is no.

Oh? Then I missed that discussoin and why is the answer no?

Trevor: I tend to make tokens for my players and their spells or items, etc. I would love for them to be able to save those locally so they can use them in the future. - Instead of the current "... yeah, that token that had the sword. You know, the shiney one. You used it about a month ago!"

As for some level of token security: It's not like people can't take screenshots in order to capture any image they like already. Locking a feature out because we would be concerned about such a thing (if that's the line of reasoning here) would seem quite a silly reason te keep such a feature on the no list. =)

snikle · Post by **snikle** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:11 pm

I think they are referring to the copyright discussion we had a few weeks ago. I believe it was decided that we, as GMs, didn't want the players to have the ability to snag things from MapTool for various reasons, mostly to keep them from opening up your dungeon and seeing the area htey have not yet explored. Tokens would be included in that as they would be on the map.

Dracorat · Post by **Dracorat** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:21 pm

Then let's add an option for whether or not content is protected. It can even be defaulted to "protected".

Right now, I have to zip up files from time to time, upload them to my FTP and instruct people to download them.

Letting people arbitrarily save tokens would be a big win for me. I don't care who copies my tokens. Hell, I'm flattered.

Michael Silverbane · Post by **Michael Silverbane** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 9:30 pm

Could token/object copying be linked to the new ownership property?

Later
silver

Post by **trevor** » Thu Feb 15, 2007 10:00 pm

Michael Silverbane wrote:Could token/object copying be linked to the new ownership property?

Later
silver

Tell me more, do you mean the copy has the original ownership, or the person copying has sole ownership ?

Michael Silverbane · Post by **Michael Silverbane** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 4:44 pm

I mean that whether or not a token can be copied is linked to ownership. ie. You can only copy a token that you own. A copied token should probably retain whatever properties (including ownership, notes, etc.) that the original had.

And by copy, really I mean the ability to pull a token out of Maptool and onto your desktop or into some other folder.

Later
silver