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 .
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"
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!