Hi - In my use of XnView MP, I am finding myself frequently wanting to skim over images and change between different sort orders. As mentioned in the topic title, I usually go by created date field in descending order. However, sometimes it makes a lot more sense to use the filename field sorted in ascending order.
Let's say a sort "schema" would be a set of individual sort options: field (name, date, size, etc), order (ascending, descending), and Name order (numeric/normal/alphabetic)
It would be great if I could somehow make it easier to jump back and forth between two sort "schema" without having to change all three of those settings manually. So far I have been poking around but not getting anywhere significant yet. I am looking at the following general ideas:
- scripting using the CLI (ran out of energy already, my brain is full from scanning too many forum posts, lol)
- tweaking the xnview.ini file in a text editor - I have found some settings under the BROWSER section, but I don't know how to read the values/arguments, e.g., sort=5; sortOrder=0... however if I were to figure it out, then the question of toggling between two alternate .ini files is unsolved
- using the custom sort - pretty much same confusion as with the xnview.ini file
- customization - I see a subforum for contributions, but I see mostly custom skins and add-on utitlities, such as auto tagging.
- using the view -> layout; trying to see if I can define a given sort order to one layout and a different sort to another layout