Was there some kind of change recently or why do my file info tips show these
tags now?
Thanks! o)
Did you edit the XML with an external editor at any point? AFAIK Opus would not insert
tags for blank lines; it just uses blank lines.
Nope, I'm very sure I did not.
I just tried to insert a blank line and make it appear in the tooltip, this does not seem to work.. and thinking twice.. I guess I used these tags explicitly to create blank lines. For some odd reason they are visible with v12.4.4 and refuse to do what they did before.
This is my Images group info tip, clearly all the line breaking tags in the right spot, so it's surely something I did and not some external tool.
{thumbnail}
<b>{name}</b>
<br></br>
Date Created: {created}
Date Modified: {modified}
Size: {sizeauto}
<br></br>
Date Taken: <b>{shootingtime}</b>
Dimensions: {picsize}
Size: {sizeauto}
Aspectratio: 1:{aspectratio} ({scp:Column.File: ExtendedEXIF/Ratio})
Rotation: {rotation}
<br></br>
Focal Length: <b>{35mmfocallength}</b> (35mm), {focallength} (lens)
Lens: <b>{scp:Column.File: ExtendedEXIF/LensID}</b>
Shutter: <b>{scp:Column.File: ExtendedEXIF/Shutter}</b>
Digital Zoom: {digitalzoom}
Aperture: <b>{apertureval}</b>
F-Number: <b>{fnumber}</b>
Shutter Speed: <b>{shutterspeed}</b>
Exposure Time: <b>{exposuretime}</b>
Exposure Bias: <b>{exposurebias}</b>
ISO Speed: <b>{isorating}</b>
Flash: <b>{flash}</b>
<br></br>
White Balance: {whitebalance}
{!subjectdistance}<br></br>{!}
Subject Distance: {subjectdistance}
Metering Mode: {meteringmode}
Exposure Mode: {exposureprogram}
Scene Mode: {scenecapturetype}
Colorspace: {colorspace}
Contrast: {contrast}
Saturation: {saturation}
Sharpness: {sharpness}
{!cameramake}<br></br>{!}
Camera: {cameramake}
Model: {cameramodel} {copyright}
{!software}Software: {software}{!}
{!altitude}<br></br>{!}
Altitude: {altitude}
Latitude: {latitude}
Longitude: {longitude}
Huh! I just found this in the relase notes: So that's why! o)
Info tips will now display strings enclosed in angle brackets (e.g. <blah>) unless they're a supported html-style tag.
I think we can move on to how to get the blank lines back.. o)
A solution which includes the conditional insertion of line breaks as before would be quite nice! o)
It makes sense now, if the <br></br> stuff was something you added by hand in the past.
12.4.4 will have changed how Opus reacts to that, after complaints that < and > could not be used in Infotips:
- Info tips will now display strings enclosed in angle brackets (e.g.
<blah>) unless they're a supported html-style tag.
I'll see if we can add <br> to the allowed tags.
Sounds good to me! o) Thankya! o)
Looking more, the <br></br> tags you added never did anything in previous versions, except get swallowed up.
So I don't think any old new-line functionality was broken. It looks like you must've tried adding the tags in the past, found they didn't do anything, then left the junk tags there afterwards.
(If you want blank lines in the infotips you can use a line with just a space at the start of it.)
This is a screenshot of v12.2.4 (taken some seconds ago) with the following code behind the info tip.
It looks like the tags do nicely in that version, maybe by some kind of side effect, I don't know. But I'm sure they are no junk, since some code parts only put newlines if necessary.
{thumbnail}
<b>{name}</b>
<br></br>
Date Created: {created}
Date Modified: {modified}
Size: {sizeauto}
<br></br>
Date Taken: <b>{shootingtime}</b>
Dimensions: {picsize}
Rotation: {rotation}
<br></br>
Focal Length: <b>{35mmfocallength}</b> (35mm), {focallength} (lens)
Digital Zoom: {digitalzoom}
Aperture: <b>{apertureval}</b>
F-Number: <b>{fnumber}</b>
Shutter Speed: <b>{shutterspeed}</b>
Exposure Time: <b>{exposuretime}</b>
Exposure Bias: <b>{exposurebias}</b>
ISO Speed: <b>{isorating}</b>
Flash: <b>{flash}</b>
<br></br>
White Balance: {whitebalance}
{!subjectdistance}<br></br>{!}
Subject Distance: {subjectdistance}
Metering Mode: {meteringmode}
Exposure Mode: {exposureprogram}
Scene Mode: {scenecapturetype}
Colorspace: {colorspace}
Contrast: {contrast}
Saturation: {saturation}
Sharpness: {sharpness}
{!cameramake}<br></br>{!}
Camera: {cameramake}
Model: {cameramodel} {copyright}
{!software}Software: {software}{!}
{!altitude}<br></br>{!}
Altitude: {altitude}
Latitude: {latitude}
Longitude: {longitude}
They worked because they turned into nothing, but made the line count as not being an empty line so it wasn't removed.
You could have a million of them at the end of a line and it would not insert more than one line-break.
<randomcharacters> on a line by itself would also have worked to insert a single blank line.
A space will still work.
Ok, thank you! o)
I tested the conditional linebreaks like "{!cameramake} {!}" - with just a space in between to only create the empty lines if specific fields are set and it works as before it seems. So I will edit some tooltips now. o)
Hi,
I've tried "<br>" (and "<hr>"), both just get generated into the tooltip, did you ever add it to the allowed list (is that documented somewhere?)? How do I get a blank line?
Also what do "{tab} char} & "\{tab} char}" do in the generated samples? These don't appear at: Info Tip [Directory Opus Manual]
You don't actually need <br> tags for new lines in info tips. A normal blank line is enough.
The default Images into-tip, for example:
They let you display date as a table (rows and columns).
I've added them to the Into Tip documentation, near the bottom. (Previously, they were only documented in the release notes.)