Re: Getting PrintCreator to work on SORTED list of images?

Hi,

Testing with current 8.3.0 (same with last stable 8.2.0), the sorted
list of items in print creator follow the sort rules done in icon
view:

Sort by dates : https://i.imgur.com/i045Cs5.png
Sort by filenames : https://i.imgur.com/3HHjsX5.png

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 1 déc. 2023 à 09:46, Rik Belew <[email protected]> a écrit :
>
> hi just digging into digikam, and finding it a very solid
> piece of work; well done all!
>
> i've used a tag to pull together an album that I want to
> turn into a picture book.  PrintCreator seems like it might
> make a useful tool for that.  (If this workflow is common
> for others, perhaps there has been previous posts to
> the Users list?  I haven't found any.)
>
>
> There is a chronology to the images that the
>         View ‣ Sort Images  ‣ Creation Date
> respects.  But when I use PrintCreator over the
> album, it comes out in some other (random?) order.
>
> i'm not great at C++, but trying to track this down
> I find iteration over a QMap:
>
>         QMap<int, int>::iterator it = d->indexMap.find(key);
>
> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/blame/master/core/dplugins/generic/tools/printcreator/tools/atkinspagelayout.cpp?ref_type=heads#L85
>
> is there some way to modify this iterator, or otherwise
> have PrintCreator do what I want?
>
> Thanks for any hints,
>
>         Rik
>
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