Inventory or Art Catalogue - many uses table editor (Array and html produce below the table)

  • This is an editable table so eat your heart out and swap things around or edit any inputs. Also add new ones.
  • Named images already indicated can be swapped too. Of course it is vital to have images names correct to access their folder.
  • Array allows clickable images of the thumbnails The buttons are toggle so will make the chosen infomation appear and disappear.
  • You can save up to date edits copying the table drop down html.

[]thumbnamestatusdescription
0reireiA4 Acrylic Study dedicated homage to original art. From Highschool of the Dead. Personal copy available at postage and costs circa £5 or original for £40
1hiranoA4 AcrylicStudy dedicated homage to original art. From Highschool of the Dead. Trying to learn to use Acrylic paint. Winter sessions with small digital photoframe to work from. Set of 5.
2stairwellA4 AcrylicStudy dedicated homage to original art. From Highschool of the Dead. Personal copy available at postage and costs circa £5 or original for £40
3reiandkomoroA4 AcrylicStudy dedicated homage to original art. From Highschool of the Dead. Personal copy available at postage and costs circa £5 or original for £40
4airdropA4 WatercolourGran Paradiso ridge from Villeneuve climbs straight up to an impressive nothingness.
5canailleA4 Watercolour 2017View from Cassis bluff on holiday
6brazil50cm x 40cm Large Watercolour 2004I envisaged a wilderness of trees to remote distinctive peaks and the country most similar to the unknown with such a size gave it the name
7cannesA4 Watercolour 2017Destination campsite in the town of the same name by bike cycle from Milan.
8chippingandcracking50cm by 36cm Large Watercolour 2007Paulie and Beth descend the plateau 'kind of thing' but quite big cliffs
9cygnetsA4 Medium forgottenGirls just want to have fun. Taboo for the low status to represent but in the same vein we see more than you with less face
10fieldA4 Watercolour 2017From the busy destination year bike tour to Cannes
11kinnanamor60cm x 45cm Large AcrylicA very old idea that worked in half an hour but took a long time to reproduce again once any detail of the mist was focused on.

The table toggle reveals the latest edits so is the replacement table when saving the latest dated and named work. I hoped to use local storage to autosave directly in the browser to the file but this I am leaving for 2 reasons. I have not become confident in it yet and importantly conflicting class, id or affecting data of numerous sorts might be in local storage. ALready it is both long and complicated and simple and neat.

The array opens the saved version of the last table. What is shows is that all the data is correct. It does not fuss about word spacing but is useful for checking the image at a defined size larger than the thumb.

The copied table to save always needs always to be tidied back into rows. The code editor does not distinguish copy and paste demimiters from the browser to the pc. A save button using local storage could do this but currently I want to use the editor in a lot of situations and formats to know how necessary this is due to complications that outweigh short term benefits. Local storage can easily remain in the brwoser between sessions including online making data cross issues that you did not notice in a save.

Why?

My art is important to me. Organising reference collectively is very important to add method to reviewing it. In general images are very hard to manage. To be sure you have copies and other files or collections and duplicates and then when searching for a specific one it seems to be gone. It is reassuring to me that I have the thumbnails here because of this. They are strictly attached to the file and will only display if they exist exactly as stated, named and located. This can be useful for many things when you understand how images seem to detach at calling and end up somewhere else of lost completely.

Though there will be many who choose to turn a blind eye to this loss of images or manipulation of them in any case this will provide a tight reference. One of the key bases of the internet is image transfer protocol which might relate to why they move about. They are building blocks to the operating systems and the www. Very easy to use by design in a computer. This idea suits a restaurant menu don't you think. The array toggle link could go beyong the name and thumbnail to both a photo and recipe, commentary and personal tips and ideas dedicated to it?

Troubleshooting

  • If the table still has an old incorrect number it will need editing but when opening the array will be correct as shown by the correct picture.
  • Images not opening may mean somehow you have a space in the table around the name. Names being very precise do not lend to spaces which additionally might be read differently on different machines. This is why I have called the files by names without capitals and joined words together. An alternative if you like separate words and Capitals is Stella-Marz. Still watch out for spaces. Then can be ignored in the code but reintroduced elsewhere where not accounted for.
  • If you do not complete a full line there will not be an opportunity to edit so make a new line, alter the table entry number and go into the table html to delete the line. Once I am using the table I will create a way to remove a line on the browser.