VLT demo - order of images

[Emil]

Hello, I'm trying out the demo version of VLT, which seems to exactly meet my needs!
Only one problem:
I drag the images in the album area, move them around, and try to rename them in the new order.
What happens - and it took me some time to find out - is, that not the new order as seen is used but the order in which the files have been touched!
that's saying: the image I moved first gets the first index, and the image I moved last the last, no matter, on which position on the light table it is.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanx
Emil

[LSI_Noack]

Dear Emil

nothing, you're doing everything fine. That's the way it is intended to work. To get an image up-front, it need to be click (again), which sets its index to last position, to make it come first.

Kind regards
Sonny Noack
- manager tech support, LSI AG -

[Emil]

thank you for your really fast reply!
what is the reason for this "order by last click" thing?
I should rather like to just move the images around in the album, and once I'm satisfied with the order, rename them with new indices, to save the order in a windows folder as well.
ciao
Emil

[LSI_Noack]

Dear Emil

you can only sensibly use such an index in a LIFO (last in, first out) way, to make a user able to quickly assign an image top place.

Your approach
>>
just move the images around in the album, and once I'm satisfied with the order, rename them with new indices, to save the order in a windows folder as well
<<
also does make sense to me. I will ask the product manager to take it into account.

Best regards
Sonny Noack
- manager tech support, LSI AG -