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Slides

Browse the available slides, switch the slide shown in a viewer and inspect its metadata.

IDslide-info
Version1.0.0
AuthorRationAI
CategoriesNavigation
Sourceplugins/slide-info

Keywords: slide · switcher · metadata · browser

Dependencies​

Capabilities​

  • slide-info.download-slide — %capabilities.downloadSlide%

Additional configuration keys​

slideSwitching, slideBrowser, tests

See include.json for details and defaults.

Documentation​

Slide Information and Switching Menu​

Adds windows for slide information, file listing and slide overviews.

Slide Switching Menu​

This menu is automatically available for given background configuration block.

Slides are listed as compact rows. Clicking a row opens the slide in the active viewport (or focuses the viewport that already shows it); the split button offers opening in a specific viewport or a new one. Rows can also be dragged onto the viewer area. Drop intent is dwell-based: a quick drop opens the slide in a new viewport (non-destructive default), while holding over an occupied viewport for a moment switches the drop to replace that viewport — a floating label and the outline style (dashed = new, solid = replace) announce the current intent. Dropping on an empty placeholder viewport fills it.

Opening a slide that is already open is treated as a user mistake: the UI focuses the existing viewport (with an info toast) instead of opening a duplicate. The programmatic path (APPLICATION_CONTEXT.openViewerWith) is intentionally not restricted — two viewports on the same slide remain possible via the API.

Closing a viewport (single close or "Close all") never removes the slide from the config.background catalog — the slide stays listed in the switcher as available and can be reopened; only its viewport is torn down.

Slide Information​

Moreover, any Slide Information is displayed from the provided metadata getter of the background tileSource object. Supported is any value, the parser tries to guess a suitable UI representation for the given JSON structure. If info field is present, it is used to display the slide information. Otherwise, the whole return value is used.

   getMetadata() {
        return {
            info: {...}
        };
    }

Slide Browser​

Hierarchy browser is available for any data source. It uses the Explorer component from UI.