Drag-and-drop from external source

[aplman]

Hi All! First post here for an excited new user.

I am keen to make PTE slideshows to replace some of my shows that have been created in other packages. Having spent a lot of time getting images into the right sequence, it would be desirable to be able to drag-and-drop them into the PTE Slide List.

Is there a way I might do this?

A simple second question -- having chosen my slides, I will spend a lot of time doing transitions, animations and captions. In that stage, I no longer need the File Tree window. Can it be suppressed?

Appreciative thanks for any suggestions.

APLman.

[nobeefstu]

APLman,

PTE does not have drag-n-drop features from the Windows environment. However, you can drag-n-drop within the PTE environment from the Folder View to the Slide List.

To close the file tree panel ... disable the View | Show Tree from the top menu bar.

[denwell]

Hi APLman and welcome to the forum.

Why not sort and arrange your images directly in PTE?

As suggested above, drag all the images you need into the slide list ( in horizontal or classic view to see thumbnails), then click the icon extreme bottom right of screen - this opens a lightbox where you can arrange your images - then <close> to return to slide view and all images are in the PTE project in your desired order.

[aplman]

APLman,

PTE does not have drag-n-drop features from the Windows environment. However, you can drag-n-drop within the PTE environment from the Folder View to the Slide List.

To close the file tree panel ... disable the View | Show Tree from the top menu bar.

Thank you, nobeefstu, for your quick response. Now I can confidently suggest drag-and-drop from the Windows environment in the Suggested Enhacement section of the Forum.

Sorry, I meant to say "File List", not "File Tree".

[aplman]

Hi APLman and welcome to the forum.

Why not sort and arrange your images directly in PTE?

As suggested above, drag all the images you need into the slide list ( in horizontal or classic view to see thumbnails), then click the icon extreme bottom right of screen - this opens a lightbox where you can arrange your images - then <close> to return to slide view and all images are in the PTE project in your desired order.

Thank you, denwell, for your quick response, and for the welcome!

I was hoping to avoid having to sort, for a second time, 14 shows with an average of 150 images each, from two folders containing 4300 image files in total. I will probably write myself a program to read the DVD PixPlay file and create a pte file.

I was aware of the fullscreen Slide List view, but had not discovered the quick way to access it -- thanks for that. Trouble is, PicturesToExe seems so intuitive and easy to learn that I have dived right in and not read enough of the User Guide yet!

[nobeefstu]

APLman,

Take note that also the Folder View has Full Screen selection/options as does the Slide List.

I personally find it much quicker to view and select from the Folder View (full screen) then toggle to the Slide List (full screen) for sorting. Having to drag-n-drop from the Windows environment would be a bit more time consuming to me.

However, no matter what method is used ... its not going to be a easy and quick task to select 150 images from a pool of 4300 images. If your other slide program has some Create Backup Zip feature as PTE offers ... this would save you alot of time in the image selection process since only the required images are copied and zipped into a single folder.