Do you want to continue batch scanning...

[long-time-user]

Why this stupid annoying thing has to appear while I am scanning Into? I used this in the past many times and it was quite fine and now I needed to do some heavy scanning and could not find how to remove it. I lost so much time with some scanning, setting searching etc. that I start to think why so many programmers are so arrogant and often change things once working just to steal time from the others. On one side I understand that the program is offered for free but on the other side, while you get so many people used to something that is working for years nice, why do you change it to annoyance of many? Why are programmer often so ignorant? I do not have this problem only with XnView, where several nice working things were already changed in the past to worse and to annoy me, but with many other programs as well.

Yes, I saw posts of annoyed users asking the same thing but they are a year old now, I am running the same version and the poor programmer was not able to fix it, i.e. in incorporate an old better code. Fortunately I have save an old version but is it a solution to stick with old versions? I need to work, not to get upset that somebody killed working features and search for solutions. Please, do not spoil your otherwise nice software. In the past I had to quit ACDSee, which became unusable but at times I am afraid of XnView future as well. Last two or three years brought me not a single improvement that I could use or find at all, just several pretty annoying improvements... That's it. Rather stop your development than this. By the way, for same reason I stopped updating GIMP, a nice program which I am popularizer among people around me but which became completely annoying after version 2.2 for my personal usage. The same applies also for many of MS products and other programmers' work so that is why I am so straightforward. I simply do not have time to program everything I need by myself to keep it usable for ages though it would be probably the only solution not to get upset over and over again.

Well, I do not expect I can do something with version 1.96 and I do not expect any special answers, just wanted to give a feedback how frustrated some users might be with your bad decisions but I would still have one clear question: is it going to be fixed in version 1.97 or should I rather stick with older version like I did with GIMP and do not care anymore about updates?

[Clo]

long-time-user

Hello ! Welcome aboard !

• Well, I also dislike such exasperating confirmation messages on principle. About the one you point out, I don't hold any scanner, but I share your feeling…
• However, such an annoyance could be solved by adding some INI entry (GUI-less).
- Whether Pierre didn't keep one on the back burner (?), I would propose something like :

ConfirmBatchScan=Flag
0: OFF
1: ON
2: Asks once per session only…

…to make everybody happy !
- This was done similarly for other changed functions in the past, i.e. “Colour info”

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

[XnTriq]

Here is the changelog:

Added:
* read XMP from PNG
* support of colour PNG with alpha - http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=18517
* [Scan]/newMethod added - http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=18474
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=17523

XnView 1.97 beta 3 can be downloaded here

[Clo]

XnTriq

Hello W. !

• As far as I see, the new scan method as nothing to do with removing the confirmation message, or did I miss something ?

KR
Claude
Clo

[XnTriq]

Hi Claude

Well, I was assuming that more than one issue has been tackled with regard to the acquire into / batch scanning function, because in the change-log Pierre is linking to two different topics:

Yes, will be changed in next release...

Oh ok, there is a little change in scan since 1.96, so perhaps the problem. I must add an option to use old method...

An option for reverting to the old (= silent) method seems to be the solution for both problems.