SageThumbs 2.0.0.1 - Thumbnail image shell extension

[Nikolay Raspopov]

SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.
Copyright © Nikolay Raspopov, 2004-2010.
E-Mail: ryo-oh-ki@narod.ru

Web site: http://www.cherubicsoft.com/projects/sagethumbs

Features:
* Extended thumbnail image view of explorer folder
* Thumbnail image in explorer context menu (rigth-click menu)
* Extended info tips
* Support 141 image formats via GFL Library v.3.31
* Support additional 26 image formats via XnView plugins (if installed)
* Send by mail support
* One-click conversion to GIF,JPG,BMP support
* Wallpaper selection support
* Copy to clipboard support

Please read carefully the following information.
As SageThimbs is a Windows Explorer context menu extension,
there is no an executable file that you should launch to bring it up.
To use it, just open any folder with image files in Windows Explorer,
and then right-click a file you want to preview. You'll see the
thumbnail immediately in the context menu.


System Requirement

* Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7 or higher, 32/64-bit.
* About 1.5 Mb of disk space

Versions:
2.0.0.1
+ Windows 64-bit support
+ Thumbnail moved out to submenu

1.0.0.12
+ Fixed missing preview (one missing registry key)

1.0.0.11
+ Fixed AppID registration (may be usefull for some security maniacs...)
+ Fixed missed additional image extensions (doh!)
+ Added image information cache (SQLite 3.0.8 database) - perfomance boost!

1.0.0.10
+ Fixed installation procedure
+ Fixed shell registration
+ Fixed "experimental ColumnHandler support in 1.0.0.9" bug
+ Fixed "duplicate context menu item insertion in Explorer File menu" bug
+ Fixed "missing uppercase file extensions" bug
+ Fixed "right-click double selection" bug
+ Now GFL thread-safe (more stable)
+ Added extensions cache for performance
+ Added Options dialog shortcut in Start Menu and Control Panel
+ Added handled extension selection in Options dialog

1.0.0.9
+ Added copy to clipboard support
+ Added wallpaper selection support (centered, tiled, stretched)
+ Added send by mail support (original image and thumbnail image)
+ Added one click conversion to JPG, GIF, BMP image formats

1.0.0.8
+ Fixed missed default menu items and "Open With..." submenu
+ Fixed lost preview on Explorer left panel

1.0.0.7
+ GFL Library upgraded to version 2.20:
Added GFL_ALLOCATEBITMAP_CALLBACK, GFL_PROGRESS_CALLBACK & GFL_WANTCANCEL_CALLBACK callback
Added gflSetIPTCValue & gflRemoveIPTCValue to change IPTC value
Added gflLoadIPTC, gflSaveIPTC, gflBitmapSetIPTC
Added gflJPEGGetComment, gflJPEGSetComment, gflPNGGetComment, gflPNGSetComment
Added Support of long pathname on Windows NT (with \\?\)
Added gflGetFileInformationFromMemory, gflLoadBitmapFromMemory, gflLoadThumbnailFromMemory
Fixed Many bugs & improved speed

1.0.0.6
+ Added Russain language
+ Extended image info (info tips)
+ Fixed black borders around thumbnail

1.0.0.5
+ Added Options dialog
+ Changed menu colors to Windows default menu colors
+ Now isolation-aware enabled
+ Fixed crash during Windows shutdown or logoff in 32-bit Fractal Image Decoder Library:
"First-chance exception at 0x1101fe06 (deco_32.dll) in explorer.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x02ca4bff."
+ Included Windows Fax/Image Viewer switch
+ Included some minor registry fixes for XnView image file types

1.0.0.4
+ Corrected installation/uninstallation procedure

1.0.0.3
+ First release

[helmut]

Nikolay,

you silently post things here which I find very exiting and useful: There's the plug-ins for displaying SWF, HTML, and ASC files in XnView. Now I just stumbled over your SageThumbs.

Displaying a thumbnail in the context menu of MS Windows Explorer is nice and makes working with image files even more flexible. Another very nice and handy software of you!

I'm not quite clear regarding the licencing:
SageThumbs is under GPL, that means freeware for everyone, but it uses GLF SDK of Pierre. Perhaps Pierre or you can clarify this and reply here.

[ijustdiscoveredthiswonder]

thanks a lot Nikolay!!!

[Aokromes]

Hey, an small feature request, how about Thumbnail size config?

[ckit]

Do NOT use SageThumbs, it does not uninstall properly leaving lots of registry entries to a program that doesn't exist anymore. After uninstalling SageThumbs I couldn't the Preview feature in xplorer2 to view my pictures anymore!

Now I have to manually clean the registry out...

IC now, the developer replaced this entry
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}
{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}
with
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}
{with his own}

Don't mess with Microsoft's default code!!!!!

and my PNG's are screwed up too, omfg look at the damage....

Note: This post has been edited by a moderator.

[helmut]

Nikolay, Pierre,

Do NOT use SageThumbs, it does not uninstall properly leaving lots of registry entries to a program that doesn't exist anymore. After uninstalling SageThumbs I couldn't the Preview feature in xplorer2 to view my pictures anymore!
...

could you please clarify? If it is true what ckit writes, this should be fixed. Please also let us know about the impact/damage people could experience when using/uninstalling.

Greetings,

Helmut

[ckit]

Easy just install xplorer2 lite (freeware) - http://netez.com/xplorer2/ and try to use it's Preview feature for images, you can't!! It's taken me 30mins to fix this and I'm still going replacing one entry after another... sigh easier to format and start over.

Also can Nikolay Raspopov, list the added/modified registry keys that this program writes.

[Nikolay Raspopov]

Also can Nikolay Raspopov, list the added/modified registry keys that this program writes.

Doh... completely forgot about this small feature...

HKCR\.ext\ShellExt\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}
where ".ext" is all extensions supported by GFL + XnView.

To restore original handlers type in Run dialog "regsvr32 shimgvw.dll" and hit ENTER.

[helmut]

Nikolay,

just noticed by accident that you've edited and changed your initial post.

Very good that you've fixed the uninstallation that quickly and now provide version 1.0.0.4.

@ckit: I know you're a burnt child now, perhaps you could still give the new version 1.0.0.4 a try.

Regards,

Helmut

[ckit]

To restore original handlers type in Run dialog "regsvr32 shimgvw.dll" and hit ENTER.

Thanks, thats what I was really after to repair this

[ckit]

SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.
(Uses GFL + XnView plugins)

Features:
* Thumbnail image view of explorer folder
* Thumbnail image in explorer context menu
* Info tips
* Support 119 image formats via GFL Library 2.01
* Support additional 36 image formats via XnView 1.70 plugins (if installed)

SageThumbs_1.0.0.4.exe (478kB)

Mozilla (Firefox as well) and Getright users will have to download this through Internet Explorer with Getright completely disabled. I've tried playing with Getright's refer values and ignoring servers options none of which seem to work

[ijustdiscoveredthiswonder]

SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.
(Uses GFL + XnView plugins)

Features:
* Thumbnail image view of explorer folder
* Thumbnail image in explorer context menu
* Info tips
* Support 119 image formats via GFL Library 2.01
* Support additional 36 image formats via XnView 1.70 plugins (if installed)

SageThumbs_1.0.0.4.exe (478kB)

Mozilla (Firefox as well) and Getright users will have to download this through Internet Explorer with Getright completely disabled. I've tried playing with Getright's refer values and ignoring servers options none of which seem to work

i have mozilla firefox 0.9.2 and i downloaded it correcly whitout any problem

[ckit]

i have mozilla firefox 0.9.2 and i downloaded it correcly whitout any problem

Do you have Getright installed with the Getright Mozilla plugin as well? Without Getright and it's plugin, Firefox probably could download it fine. I'm using Getright v5.1 and Firefox 0.9.1 (with the special security patch that 0.9.2 has installed)

[ijustdiscoveredthiswonder]

i have mozilla firefox 0.9.2 and i downloaded it correcly whitout any problem

Do you have Getright installed with the Getright Mozilla plugin as well? Without Getright and it's plugin, Firefox probably could download it fine. I'm using Getright v5.1 and Firefox 0.9.1 (with the special security patch that 0.9.2 has installed)

i don't have getright, when i download the plugin it appears a page saying redirecting or something similar i used getright in the past and it should handle such situations, maybe setting browser identification to "IE6" into getright may help.

hope this may help!

[ckit]

Hmm, yes you're right setting my HTTP User Agent to "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" allows me to download with Getright fine now!

A huge thank you