Automatically resetting 'colour mode'

[helmut]

Via the menu 'View->Display colour information' the user can activate the 'colour mode' and display the colour information of each pixel in the image.

Currently, this 'colour mode' is never switched back automatically to normal mode by XnView, that means when closing the image or even exiting XnView, this mode persists.

From my point of view, this behaviour is not so good and sometimes even confusing. Normally, one wants to know about the colours in a specific picture, and that's it. I think when exiting XnView or simply closing an image, the 'colour mode' should be set back to normal mode.

An alternative would be to offer options like this:

(o) Quit colour mode when closing image
( ) Quit colour mode when exiting XnView
( ) Never quit colour mode automatically

What do other people who use the colour mode think about this?

[Clo]

—> helmut

• Hi !

• In the opposite of others, I use always Colours Information,
and the new behaviour in 1.90 ß-1 is a mast in the b** for me !

• IMHO, it was not necessary to change this, since now a button can be set to enable¦disable it on the spot and very quickly.

An alternative would be to offer options like this:

( ) Quit colour mode when closing image
( ) Quit colour mode when exiting XnView
(o) Never quit colour mode automatically

• Only a bunch of keyboard maniacs can't use the button solution, so at the very outside I support you proposal for options, sorry, I changed in the quotation with regard to my need.

• To avoid a GUI change, it could be an extra-INI entrys only, that could do the trick for me…

G.
Claude
Clo

[GeorgD]

• In the opposite of others, I use always Colours Information,
and the new behaviour in 1.90 ß-1 is a mast in the b** for me !

I just need it every now an then, but when I need it, I need it to stay on. See http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?p=39677#39677

• IMHO, it was not necessary to change this, since now a button can be set to enable¦disable it on the spot and very quickly.

I don't understand which button in which version you're speaking of. In 1.90b2 I just found View => display colour information. As this is "forgotten" from file to file, I'd like to have the above mentioned options.

[Clo]

Hello Georg !

• You could add a button in the tool-bar with the command : cmd_ShowInfo

• But you can also change the INI entry in 1.90 ß-2 :

ColorInfo=2 (permanent)

- 1 stands for next¦previous file only,

- 0 is the default which sucks a lot !

• It works fine for me now.

KR
Claude
Clo

[GeorgD]

Hej Clo, thanks for the hint It works fine. But I think it can't be the desired behaviour of an application to manually tweak the ini file! How shall a normal user find out about that way? Hence: I'd like the 3 options

[Clo]

Waiting for UI options, it's indeed better than nothing… As a TC user, I'm in the habit to add INI entries by hand.

- When such entries don't get a UI when the final version is released, we add them in our Manual, so it's documented.
- Not done yet, because the update is not made, but I began @ home…

KR
Claude
Clo