Any chance of a fix/feature to allow for images to be displayed in a specific order?

Issue #5360 new
Jacopo Frasson created an issue

This might be a niche thing or it might be something that annoys 90% of users, I really don’t know.

The thing is: I add 30 images to a game, they kinda get displayed in the order Launchbox loads them in. Sometimes an image appears after another for no reason..also I really can’t edit the general order the images appear in..they generally appear in the order I added them (with some exceptions due to asynchronous loading times) but after adding them I have no options to change the order. I’d love to be able to have the images in a specific order, because sometimes (especially with screenshots) I like to “tell a story” about the game. I feel nostalgic, I run Launchbox, open the entry about my favorite game and just scroll through the screenshots, reliving my time spent with that story…But I can’t, because the screenshot from the ending comes just after the first one, and then the other 28 screenshots are 70% right and 30% randomized.

I know this is super niche but it would be really cool to be able to use Launchbox as that thing Dumbledore uses to relive his old memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPgZJzQF1Yg ..This is kinda the reason I use the app anyway, it’s a library of old memories with all my screenshots I can scan through while listening to the soundtrack of the game, triggering some super strong nostalgia moments.

The best case scenario would be a sortable list or grid for the images..it could work as a place to easily delete them too, as it’s not that intuitive by using the default UI. Kinda like when you do this in android apps: https://miro.medium.com/max/1200/1*GT_BewZ7EcP5Tx4Ds78-PA.gif but with the images under a certain “image type”.

In case this is too much work for such a niche thing, it would also help if the asynchronous loading nature for the images was tweaked so that images that happen to load faster or slower don’t get shuffled into the list but appear as blank placeholders until they load, so that the order I add the images the first time at least gets respected, and I have the option to just remove all the images and add them in order, if I really want.

Thanks for listening (= the program is great, keep going.

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