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Complete List of Command Line Options?
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 6:45 am
by Farbauti
Hello there,
I like and use XnView a lot.
But I cannot find a complete list of command line options.
Unfortunately a
xnview.exe -? (or
-help or
/? or
/help) is not implemented.
One thing I want to achieve is building a shortcut that starts XnView in capture mode.
Yes, I know there is this nice post
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.p ... 895#p51895 that handles command line capture parameters.
But I need my particular options (hotkey, target dir, file format, multiple captures), that are not mentioned there.
Hence my question...
Best regards, Farbauti.
Re: Complete List of Command Line Options?
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 10:58 am
by oops66
+1 I support to support a complete list of command line options and parameters for XnView & XnViewMP.
For Windows:
xnview.exe -?[/b] (or -help or /? or /help) is not implemented.
or for Linux, mac os...
xnview --help (or man xnview)
Re: Complete List of Command Line Options?
Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2013 8:22 pm
by helmut
Is "Command line help" dialog in XnView what you are looking for? You open it using menu "Info > Command line help".
In XnView MP the command line options are planned to be listed in the "About" dialog, which you can open using "Help > About...", tab "Command line". Until now this tab is empty (not intentionally).
+1 | Even though the info might be there, I support your request of having something like a --help option for outputting command line options.
Re: Complete List of Command Line Options?
Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 7:59 am
by Farbauti
helmut wrote:Is "Command line help" dialog in XnView what you are looking for? You open it using menu "Info > Command line help".
Not quite. It does show the options (e.g. "-capture") but not the available parameters (e.g. "=desktop,d:\screenshot_$.ext") and their meaning.
Furthermore I'd like to have even more parameters, like I said for example: command line parameters to fully configure the capture function.
best regards, Farbauti.
Re: Complete List of Command Line Options?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 7:16 am
by Farbauti
No answer from the developers is disappointing.
I still love the tool, but I'm in need of a command line that would start xnview automatically in capture mode with
- multiple captures option
- include cursor
- dest. dir
- screenshot filenames with date-time tag
Re: Complete List of Command Line Options?
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:22 am
by xnview
currently you can't make multiple capture, you have
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-capture=desktop,d:\screenshot_$.ext
to capture desktop in following filename (.ext is the extension, $ is time stamp)
Re: Complete List of Command Line Options?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 9:30 am
by Farbauti
xnview wrote:currently you can't make multiple capture...
So, what you really want to say is, that this feature won't be implemented at all in the future...?
Cheers, Farbauti.
Re: Complete List of Command Line Options?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 11:10 am
by oops66
Re: Complete List of Command Line Options?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 5:41 pm
by Farbauti
No, sorry, doesn't work for me.
Are you sure, we're talking about the same thing?
What I'd like to see is this:
I use XnView for making occasional screenshots. To be prepared, when I log in, I start xnview (via windows autostart along with other applications), but then I have to activate the screenshot functionality manually, as I need particular parameters (file-timestamp-format, multiple captures, include cursor, dest-dir, shortkey, ...). And sometimes I simply forget to activate this. I press the shortkey, and only later I find out, no screenshots were recorded
Thus I would really appreciate a funktion/opntion/parameter to automatically start XnView in (full configurable) capture mode.
Cheers, Farbauti.
Re: Complete List of Command Line Options?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 7:08 pm
by oops66
Hello, ... Right, this not exactly meet your request, but a workaround is to use a script ... i use for this a script file (.bat with windows or .sh via linux) with the shortcut icon available onto my panel/desktop
To do a test first, maybe you can try into a Terminal (for windows) (run cmd)
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xnview.exe -capture=desktop,c:\your_savedir\your_filename_###.jpg
or with date stamp:
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xnview.exe -capture=desktop,c:\your_savedir\your_filename_$.jpg