Different icons for empty and not empty IPTC fields

[dafan]

I am used to generating jpeg files from RAW files with Adobe Camera RAW. Adobe Camera RAW generate all jpeg files with IPTC metadata (xmp metadata to be exact). If no IPTC metadata is added before, it will add an empty IPTC field. I only add IPTC information in some of my photos. And in the XnView browser, all the photos are with the same IPTC icon in the under right side of their previews and I can not see in which photos I have added IPTC information. So I suggest that Xnview could show different icons or different background of the IPTC icon for the pictures with empty and not empty IPTC fields.

Thank you!

[Clo]

dafan

Hello ! Welcome aboard !

• Nothing against, but I don't know whether it's feasible easily…
- In the practice, these overlay small “icons” are in fact patterns on a single bitmap, embedded in the resources or customized in the skins as info1=… like below :



• Thus, that should bind to update all skins…Not a big deal for the default embedded one (although…),
but this lead to a new skin-version too…

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[dafan]

Clo

You are right. I didn't think of that ...

I don't know how to make a XnView skin. Is it possible not to change the skin version by only changing the icon background color?

[Clo]

dafan

Hello !

• All instructions to make skins are either THERE online, or you can also download the whole document from my Web site —> Download Page —> XnView in the upper table…

• When I say :  A new skin-version, I mean with regard to the internal codes which define the count of images on every used bitmap; supposing that any bitmap be enlarged, the Author would have to modify the programme to create a new skin-version which works !
- Keeping the mandatory current number of patterns, you may draw a skin (or simply change the bitmap of the overlay icons), but this is still the latest version so, 4…

KR
Claude
Clo

[dafan]

I don't want to change the format of the skin with only such a small feature, either.

Maybe XnView could temporarily show another small bitmap over the IPTC icon if there is a empty (or not empty) IPTC field in the picture. And change the skin format together with some other "big" improvements later.

[Clo]

dafan

Good evening,

• Anyway, any marking off to spot empty IPTCs needs an addition in the programme core…
- Without changing the bitmap, still if feasible, a solution could be for instance to show a red (or other colour) frame around the IPTC overlay image when these fields are empty.
- Or show it greyed¦blurry…
What do you think ?

KR
Claude
Clo

[dafan]

dafan

Good evening,

• Anyway, any marking off to spot empty IPTCs needs an addition in the programme core…
- Without changing the bitmap, still if feasible, a solution could be for instance to show a red (or other colour) frame around the IPTC overlay image when these fields are empty.
- Or show it greyed¦blurry…
What do you think ?

KR
Claude
Clo

Yes. That is exactly what I want!