Request: Stacks feature for Join Images (and other feedback)

[budz45]

Hello Xn forum,

Such a long time since I've logged into this wonderful forum
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joiner 2022-09-28_145628.png

I've recently taken 500 screenshots on my Samsung Galaxy smartphone and have transferred them over to my PC to individually join these image files in XnView MP.

Going by the edited screenshot above of "Join Images", I have the below listed requests:

1.) It would be great if a new radical feature named 'Stacks' could exist. To explain, if I have a 500 image files in a folder and I only want to join two images at a time in this same folder, this would then create 250 newly joined image files. However to best achieve this, I would need to queue these specific files up as a 'stack' before going ahead and bath doing it. I think another tab named 'Stacks' on this interface window would be great for this. I am able to support with beta testing of this feature if it gets supported.
Also requested in this topic: viewtopic.php?f=79&t=42317

2.) The "ok" button should be better renamed to "Create" - this reads better. Also the "Contact sheet" feature has the ok button named as "Create".

3.) XnConvert should get the same 'Join Images' feature too. I will make a separate topic about this.

4.) I'd like "Join Images" as well as Contact sheet and others to also be available as a menu in the main Viewer window. Currently I have to be in the browser window to access it. XnView Classic allows "join images" (under an older name) to be available in the Viewer window.

5.) The ability to Save/Open a session of "join images" along with a possible auto-save feature, this would especially be needed for Stacks. Saving to simple text based file should suffice for this.

6.) BUG It seems like there is currently a bug in where opening the "join images" shows it's Settings tab as the main view instead of the File list tab.


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[budz45]

I created a mock image of how it would look like and posted it in other topic, see quote below:

viewtopic.php?f=79&t=42317

I used some UI elements from XnConvert's 'Actions' feature to show how stacking in the stacks would work.

I even added the ability to Save/Open a session however we could probably have an auto-save session too which would work every few seconds just in case a crash on the computer happens and there is lots of stack join images to do.

Stacks feature in Join Images.png

When you expand each stack, it would give you a thumbnail preview of the image for which you can re-arrange the order just like in File list.