Opening Files and Folders

ClickPoints was designed with multiple usage keys in mind, and therefore provides multiple ways to open files.

Attention

Opening a set of files for the first time can take some time to extract time and meta information from the filename, TIFF or EXIF header. For large collections of files it is recommended to save the collection as a project and use the .cdb file for starting ClickPoints. Saving time as no file system search is necessary and all meta information is already stored in the .cdb

via Interface

ClickPoints can be started empty by using a desktop link or calling ClickPoints.bat from CMD (Windows), or respectively ClickPoints from a terminal (Linux).

Images can be added by using the folder button.

via Context Menu

A fast and comfortable way to open files and folders with ClickPoints is the context menu.

ClickPoints can be opened with various files as target:

  • an image, loading all images in the folder of the target image.

  • a video file, loading only this video.

  • a folder, loading all image and video files of the folder and its sub folders, which are concatenated to one single image stream.

  • a previously saved .cdb ClickPoints Project file, loading the project as it was saved.

via Commandline Parameter

ClickPoints can be run directly from the commandline, e.g. to open the files in the current or a specific folder

ClickPoints "C:\Images"

or

python ClickPoints.py -srcfile="C:\Images"

Note

To use the short version of calling ClickPoints without the path, you have to add ClickPoints base path to the systems or users PATH variable (Windows) or create an alias (Linux).

via .txt File

Furthermore it is possible to supply a text file where each line contains the path to an image or video file. This is useful e.g. to open a fixed set of files, a list of files extract by another application or a database interface.

ClickPoints "sample.txt"
sample.txt
1  20120919_colonydensity.gif                                                                 # relativ path (to txt file)
2  C:\Users\Desktop\images\20160601-141408_GE4000.jpg                 # absolut path
3  \\192.168.0.99\2014\20140323\03\20140323-030151_31n2.JPG   # network path

Note

It is possible to open files over the network e.g. via samba shares. On Linux systems it is necessary do mount the network drive first!