Starred photos

[drewbenn]

I’ve been into wildlife photography for many years, and only recently got into birding. I've been adding all my old bird photographs into Scythebill, which means I often have multiple photographs for a single bird and/or bird-visit combination. It would be really nice if I could "star" (or “favorite” or “like” or whatever terminology you prefer) the best photo(s) from a visit. Then I’d like to be able to run a report on starred photos, grouped or sorted by species, so I could quickly find the best photos of a species; and even un-star the ones that are no longer the best because I've taken newer and better pictures.

[Adam Winer]

Interesting idea, thanks.

[drewbenn]

I took a shot at adding it. It’s pretty raw, it “works for me” but this is more checking to see if I’m on the right track. I didn’t spend any time thinking about naming, just picked ‘favorite’ and went with it for this demo: I’m happy to spend as much time as you want discussing naming. The png files are as rough as the code, I can clean them up if “stars” are chosen.

My memorized “photographed” report causes a couple exceptions on the console but still works. I don’t use Users (which also uses ChipsTextPanel) so I’m not sure if that’s affected by this. Plenty of additional questions in the code.

I tried to push a branch with git and it didn’t work (I didn’t really expect it to) so I’m attaching a .patch file instead.

[Adam Winer]

This moment does deserve a bit of note: after 9 years as an open-source project, this is the very first time any user has offered a code contribution of any sort! I’ll have a look.

[drewbenn]

I’m honored! (and a little sad)

For what it’s worth, it was a lot easier than I expected to find what I was looking and make the changes.

[Adam Winer]

Resolve issue #427: starred photos

Mostly the patch from drewbenn, cleaned up, and with icons from https://material.io/tools/icons/?search=star&icon=star_border&style=baseline . (would probably be happy with a colored version of "filled_star.png")

Would probably want a somewhat bettr

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