Hi
I've been using Lightroom since its early days and pride myself in being able to find ways of getting it to do as I want (even when it was not designed to do so! Lol). Even when the program itself has defeated me, I've managed to use Access to drill into the SQL file to extract the data I needed.
Now however I find myself in need of a script or plugin. Unfortunately though, with my advancing years and addled brain (thanks to 4 young children!), I find I'm no longer able to get my head around new programming languages the way I used to. I was therefore wondering if anyone could help me out in any way?
I need to be able to able to find image files quickly by just entering the 4 digit number found within most camera file numbering systems. I already use the great LR/Transporter plugin (which seems to work with any text file I've thrown at it,) however I need something that I can use within Lightroom "on the fly". Ideally it would be an input requester that I can type a number into as I'm told it, and a matching (or several) image is added to a collection as I hit return. I could continue adding numbers, until I enter a specific, or empty string when finished.
I've not been able to find and efficient way of doing this apart from possibly via a script. If anyone has any suggestions, or can help me with even the bare bones of a lua script that I could build upon I'd be most grateful. Alternatively please feel free to tell me how stupid I am as it can already be done by......
Thanks
Ash
I've been using Lightroom since its early days and pride myself in being able to find ways of getting it to do as I want (even when it was not designed to do so! Lol). Even when the program itself has defeated me, I've managed to use Access to drill into the SQL file to extract the data I needed.
Now however I find myself in need of a script or plugin. Unfortunately though, with my advancing years and addled brain (thanks to 4 young children!), I find I'm no longer able to get my head around new programming languages the way I used to. I was therefore wondering if anyone could help me out in any way?
I need to be able to able to find image files quickly by just entering the 4 digit number found within most camera file numbering systems. I already use the great LR/Transporter plugin (which seems to work with any text file I've thrown at it,) however I need something that I can use within Lightroom "on the fly". Ideally it would be an input requester that I can type a number into as I'm told it, and a matching (or several) image is added to a collection as I hit return. I could continue adding numbers, until I enter a specific, or empty string when finished.
I've not been able to find and efficient way of doing this apart from possibly via a script. If anyone has any suggestions, or can help me with even the bare bones of a lua script that I could build upon I'd be most grateful. Alternatively please feel free to tell me how stupid I am as it can already be done by......
Thanks
Ash