Litr wrote:This is about batch comparison, not about a couple of files.
And i do not think these changes require a lot of programming. Only a little work in UI editor...
Yes - batch comparison. And the challenging parts today on batch comparison are:
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speed of comparison which can be greatly enhanced (many orders of magnitude) by giving some hints to the program, saying for example, that
"my archive does NOT contain duplicates. Just check these 10 folders with 5555 files in it against the archive with 1,000,000 files in it.". Also a big feature but rather easy to implement is change the algorithm from CRC32 to CRC32C (iSCSI CRC) and CRC32C caching. And this requires programming. Is not hard but Pierre must be attentive to do it right.
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screen organization which is subdivided in two parts: the Compare Pane (
which more or less we have designed in the Compare Window) and the Duplicates Pane (which we have more or less in the dialog which we talk about).
Well, theoretically Pierre can update/enhance these sub-systems separately but it will be a tedious work because a programmer (btw are you a programmer?
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) tends to have his mind in a certain area of the program. It is very difficult and dangerous to jump around to fix the Problem A in the part B, problem C in the package D and after this to go back to the part B and enhance the feature F.
To be sincere, for me personally, enhancing the Search for Duplicates engine is one of the top priorities (see the date of my previous thread with extensive analysis in it - link above in this thread) but I understand why Pierre didn't touched it yet.
Also
m.Th. wrote:
Yes, the GUI there should be updated.
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m.Th. wrote:
So, while I appreciate any suggestion on the matter, I think that the GUI part for 'comparing' similar images is more or less done.
The other things are more sensible.
Well, i'm confused now.
And i wonder, you're a XnView developer?...
When I say that
"the GUI part for 'comparing' similar images is more or less done." I meant it is "done" in the Compare Window. But as you observed, that window is tailored for a small number of files. Now we must 'introduce' the above part (the Compare Pane) with all its tooling in the window for Duplicate Search. No need to re-write different code to reach to more or less same functionality. It will be a maintenance nightmare.
No, I'm not a XnView developer.
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Just happens to have a little programming background.
m. Th.
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