Thumbnail List not displayed on slow network folder

[negg]

Complicated to describe this bug that exists in every 1.90 I have tested. I have set to open XnView in Edit View, and the browser diplays the list as Thumbnails with Labels. Now try the following:
- Open an image in a folder with lots of images on a slow network drive (e.g. via WLAN) -> Edit View opens.
- Press Ctrl-B to switch to browser

Now normally the list with all thumbnails opens. In this case however no thumbnails are shown, only the parent folder's icon.

See screenshot at http://www.aspekt1.net/ms/temp/xnFolderIcon.gif

[xnview]

Complicated to describe this bug that exists in every 1.90 I have tested. I have set to open XnView in Edit View, and the browser diplays the list as Thumbnails with Labels. Now try the following:
- Open an image in a folder with lots of images on a slow network drive (e.g. via WLAN) -> Edit View opens.
- Press Ctrl-B to switch to browser

Now normally the list with all thumbnails opens. In this case however no thumbnails are shown, only the parent folder's icon.

See screenshot at http://www.aspekt1.net/ms/temp/xnFolderIcon.gif

Yes, very strange that you have not the last backslash... But can't reproduce it.
You have always this problem?

[negg]

Yes, very strange that you have not the last backslash... But can't reproduce it.
You have always this problem?

Yes, I always have, its 100% reproducable with WLAN_g on my notebook, no matter if I open a folder from the notebook on my desktop-computer or from the desktop-computer on my notebook. I guess it depends on the network speed. Hard to simulate, I know. But very annoying.
Maybe you can simulate by putting a hard load on your network by copying a very big file or something like that.

[xnview]

Yes, very strange that you have not the last backslash... But can't reproduce it.
You have always this problem?

Yes, I always have, its 100% reproducable with WLAN_g on my notebook, no matter if I open a folder from the notebook on my desktop-computer or from the desktop-computer on my notebook. I guess it depends on the network speed. Hard to simulate, I know. But very annoying.
Maybe you can simulate by putting a hard load on your network by copying a very big file or something like that.

I've tested, and can't reproduce it In the title bar, when you click on browse or Ctrl+B you see immediately ..\menu_lang1 not ..\menu_lang1\???

[negg]

I've tested, and can't reproduce it In the title bar, when you click on browse or Ctrl+B you see immediately ..\menu_lang1 not ..\menu_lang1\???

Pierre I appreciate your efforts. I get the last backslash-missing path immediately when I press Ctrl-B, yes.

I'll do more testing and will try to give you more info what exactly happens. Please let me know if there is a debug output or something I can use to give you more info in that issue.

[xnview]

I've tested, and can't reproduce it In the title bar, when you click on browse or Ctrl+B you see immediately ..\menu_lang1 not ..\menu_lang1\???

Pierre I appreciate your efforts. I get the last backslash-missing path immediately when I press Ctrl-B, yes.

I'll do more testing and will try to give you more info what exactly happens. Please let me know if there is a debug output or something I can use to give you more info in that issue.

No, but if you can't find more info, i'll send you a debug version

[helmut]

@negg: Could you do a test for me which is NOT related to your current problem:

1.) View images and files in detail view (View > View as > Thumbnails)
2.) Browse a folder on the network with files.
-> Does it take long till the files are shown or are they shown immediately?

(You can reply here, I'll split this post and your reply into another topic, later).

[xnview]

And do you have the same problem with 1.82.4?

[negg]

@negg: Could you do a test for me which is NOT related to your current problem:

1.) View images and files in detail view (View > View as > Thumbnails)
2.) Browse a folder on the network with files.
-> Does it take long till the files are shown or are they shown immediately?

Folder with ~ 800 images (mostly digicam images about 1.5 MB), folder was opened before, typical WLAN speed around 15 kbit: it took about 5 seconds until the thumbnails popped up for a splitsecond, disappeared again for about 2 seconds and were finally displayed. No heavy network activity during that time, so I guess the thumbnails came from cache.

This test was done opening an image by doubleclicking in explorer, then pressing ctrl-b in xnview to switch to thumbnail list. I noticed that the list of thumbnails appears almost immediately when I already am in the browser (in the parent folder) and open the folder containing the lots of images there.

Hope this helps!

[negg]

And do you have the same problem with 1.82.4?

No, I don't. Works fine there. More infos:

- Can't reproduce the error on WLAN currently (noticed this while doing the test for helmut). Maybe the speed is too good here right now.

- Tried on a VPN over 2 MBit DSL, error appears. Noticed there however, that the last backslash appears in the application titlebar for a splitsecond, then disappears there, too.

[xnview]

And do you have the same problem with 1.82.4?

No, I don't. Works fine there. More infos:

- Can't reproduce the error on WLAN currently (noticed this while doing the test for helmut). Maybe the speed is too good here right now.

- Tried on a VPN over 2 MBit DSL, error appears. Noticed there however, that the last backslash appears in the application titlebar for a splitsecond, then disappears there, too.

In Option/General/startup - mode when starting, what do you have?

[negg]

Mode when starting with a file: Normal

[xnview]

Mode when starting with a file: Normal

Could you try with B6 if you have always the problem?

[negg]

Yeah, sorry. The problem still exists in B6.

[xnview]

Yeah, sorry. The problem still exists in B6.

Could you send me an email to send you a debug version?