Please all of you guys check out this freeware called
Viewer2 - from kometbomb
On this forum here
Image scroll viewing feature?
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Well until this feature makes Xnview...
Well until this feature makes Xnview...
Please all of you guys check out this freeware called
Viewer2 - from kometbomb
On this forum here
Please all of you guys check out this freeware called
Viewer2 - from kometbomb
On this forum here
I have extensively edited this post.
This thing is pre-Alpha or "proof of concept" at best. It crashes a lot. However, after cussing it to death and almost giving up, part of it does work well... very close to the "light table" concept I have requested for XnView.
The installer grabs the JPG association, so you can double-click a JPG in a file manager to load an image into Viewer2. Choose an image from a small folder at first!
You can semi-automatically add folders/images to the database and assign tags. To do that:
- Run the command line program dbtool.exe (in the install folder) as the instructions suggest for adding entire folders of thumbs (jpgs only, apparently). Make sure you designate at least one tag for the import. For instance:
...will import all of the files in the entire folder tree designated by myimagepath in to the Viewer2 database and tag them with 3 separate tags. For big trees it takes a long time, so start on a small folder first.
- Then, start Viewer2, click the "Find tags..." icon in the dropdown toolbar (upper right) and type one of the tag values you used. The associated thumbs will appear.
- Viewer2 only works full screen. You'll have to <alt><tab> to get to other apps if you customarily hide your windows taskbar.
- Close Viewer2 with <esc>.
The thumbnail "light table" thing you finally get to after all that effort with the tags is smooth as silk and very cool. Good ideas in it for XnView.
This thing is pre-Alpha or "proof of concept" at best. It crashes a lot. However, after cussing it to death and almost giving up, part of it does work well... very close to the "light table" concept I have requested for XnView.
The installer grabs the JPG association, so you can double-click a JPG in a file manager to load an image into Viewer2. Choose an image from a small folder at first!
You can semi-automatically add folders/images to the database and assign tags. To do that:
- Run the command line program dbtool.exe (in the install folder) as the instructions suggest for adding entire folders of thumbs (jpgs only, apparently). Make sure you designate at least one tag for the import. For instance:
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c:\Program Files\Viewer2\dbTool.exe add myimagepath tag1 tag2 tag3- Then, start Viewer2, click the "Find tags..." icon in the dropdown toolbar (upper right) and type one of the tag values you used. The associated thumbs will appear.
- Viewer2 only works full screen. You'll have to <alt><tab> to get to other apps if you customarily hide your windows taskbar.
- Close Viewer2 with <esc>.
The thumbnail "light table" thing you finally get to after all that effort with the tags is smooth as silk and very cool. Good ideas in it for XnView.
Last edited by JohnFredC on Wed Feb 27, 2008 2:36 pm, edited 1 time in total.
John
I will never use Viewer2 for serious stuff, but here are (IMHO) its good points (in order)...
1. Great zoom mode in the viewer (for typical 8MP photos), both the fastest and the best quality I've ever seen, anywhere.
2. Its "light table" metaphor for arranging photos and all the associated features.
3. Convenient thumbnail overlay in the viewer itself (right-click)
4. Attractive thumbnail cartouches
...and bad points (not in order):
1. Inconvenient/very slow to add folders/images to its database
2. Clunky "fade-in" menu handling
3. Very very slow redrawing thumbs in the "light table" mode...
4. "Light table" metaphor for arranging photos is not useful if over ~50 images displayed (on my computer)
5. Some tagging operations inconvenient (too much typing)
Nevertheless, I think that Viewer2 represents a new trend toward more fluid interactivity in image viewer/management software.
Thanks to budz45 for link!
1. Great zoom mode in the viewer (for typical 8MP photos), both the fastest and the best quality I've ever seen, anywhere.
2. Its "light table" metaphor for arranging photos and all the associated features.
3. Convenient thumbnail overlay in the viewer itself (right-click)
4. Attractive thumbnail cartouches
...and bad points (not in order):
1. Inconvenient/very slow to add folders/images to its database
2. Clunky "fade-in" menu handling
3. Very very slow redrawing thumbs in the "light table" mode...
4. "Light table" metaphor for arranging photos is not useful if over ~50 images displayed (on my computer)
5. Some tagging operations inconvenient (too much typing)
Nevertheless, I think that Viewer2 represents a new trend toward more fluid interactivity in image viewer/management software.
Thanks to budz45 for link!
John
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estebanramos3
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As JohnFredC said,
In fact, Viewer2 looks quite promising, and although it lacks almost everything Xnview can do, image viewer/management are changing rapidly towards a more fluid interface, aiming at keeping tagged your image library, and interacting with them in a "more mac" way.
I was about to ask for something like Viewer2, but never knew about it until searching the forum. My suggestion was based on
www.photomesa.com
Don't know which came first, but they both show how these apps are evolving. A feature like this would skyrocket Xnview.
It may be nothing more that something "eyecatchy", but in the end, it makes you work more pleasantly.
Don't get me wrong, as this is only a suggestion. I've used Xnview for years now, and every time I needed something, a new build came up; and I will continue to use it for heavy work, but I will think twice if I'm planning to have fun with pictures.
Anyway... congrats on Xnview. This great great app has radically changed the way a manage my pictures (and other stuff). Keep up the good work!!
best regards.
Maybe this has been posted before (apart from this topic) but search didn't show anything.Nevertheless, I think that Viewer2 represents a new trend toward more fluid interactivity in image viewer/management software.
In fact, Viewer2 looks quite promising, and although it lacks almost everything Xnview can do, image viewer/management are changing rapidly towards a more fluid interface, aiming at keeping tagged your image library, and interacting with them in a "more mac" way.
I was about to ask for something like Viewer2, but never knew about it until searching the forum. My suggestion was based on
www.photomesa.com
Don't know which came first, but they both show how these apps are evolving. A feature like this would skyrocket Xnview.
It may be nothing more that something "eyecatchy", but in the end, it makes you work more pleasantly.
Don't get me wrong, as this is only a suggestion. I've used Xnview for years now, and every time I needed something, a new build came up; and I will continue to use it for heavy work, but I will think twice if I'm planning to have fun with pictures.
Anyway... congrats on Xnview. This great great app has radically changed the way a manage my pictures (and other stuff). Keep up the good work!!
best regards.
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ghost zero
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Re: Image scroll viewing feature?
still requesting...