XnView Software

dawog

What a saga !

- I saved the page « Dawog's Home Page.htm » from your site in a temp dir. I added some "squatters" as PNG, GIF, JPG, BMP pics in that dir. (the root of the dir., where the HTML file is).
• Clicking from Total Commander in the list or from the XnView-Browser like formerly, nothing abnormal happens…

- If I got you alright, your two machines P4 are exactly mirrors one another about the main HDs contents, and both have the problem… So, there is a common “guilty” item / program there.

Do you think it's worth uninstalling Mozilla & seeing if that has an effect?

- I would answer rather «Yes», since your P2 with another Web browser behaves correctly.
- Here, I use IE6 through the Maxthon interface (or else, it's too poor and ugly), and HTM / HTML files are associated with another small interface using the IE6 engine -to get a quick view- 'cause that interface is very "light".
- The P4 has an Intel™ MB, with a built-in graphic-card.

• Finally, just "in the case", I would ckeck for viruses with a DOS AV scanner like the old good free F-Prot. It has solved already some odd issues in the same painting
¤ To be continued…

Kind regards,
Claude
Clo

dawog wrote:Do you think it's worth uninstalling Mozilla & seeing if that has an effect?

NO! Deleting the file-association should be enough, but I doubt it makes any difference.

Claude...

I'm 100% certain that my system is virus/spyware free.

Even tho' I didn't think it would effect anything, I went ahead & uninstalled Mozilla (since I need to upgrade it to the latest version anyway). Uninstalling Mozilla had no effect on XnView's behavior on my 2.8 GHz P4 (no surprise).

Just out of curiousity, I thought I'd try to create some JBIG images (via conversion) to see if their presence in a folder would have any effect on XnView's behavior. With the JBIG2DEC plug-in restored, I tried saving several jpeg & tiff images to JBG format - all failed. After clicking on "Save," a small "Warning" window pops up that states: "Contact Your Dealer."

Since this problem is limited to my P4 systems only, I'll quit posting. Thanks again for all those who provided additional testing & suggestions.

Hi!

I just found this thread after a Google search and can add that I too have this problem. Using XNView 1.80.2 on Windows 2000 Professional with all available patches.

I usually experience this problem when browsing a folder, then opening a photo and then continue browsing using the "next" button.

My photo folders are comletely free of html files. There are only jpg & mov files in there.

Did anyone find a solution/cause to this problem?

Hi Hawkse...

As far as I know, no solution was found except to rename or delete the JBIG2DEC plug-in. Since I don't have any JBIG images, I just renamed the plug-in "jbig2dec.exe" to "_jbig2dec.exe". It's located in the XnView\Plugins directory.

Thanks for the info.

That's what I thought after reading the thread. I'll just disable the plugin as well then.

Since I'm not even familiar with JBig2 it won't matter much to me.

dawog wrote:Hi Hawkse...

As far as I know, no solution was found except to rename or delete the JBIG2DEC plug-in. Since I don't have any JBIG images, I just renamed the plug-in "jbig2dec.exe" to "_jbig2dec.exe". It's located in the XnView\Plugins directory.

Very strange because i can't reproduce the problem...

xnview wrote: Very strange because i can't reproduce the problem...

Well, I'll hold off disabling the plugin and will try to figure out a way to reproduce it. Nothing strange going on here systemwise. 100% spyware & virus free. No weird software running in the background scanning things or the like.

The problem is very occasional. Sometimes I just see a command window flashing by before disappearing and that's it. Actually, yesterday was the first time I couldn't get out of the loop and had to kill XNView. Going through the same sequence (same folder, same photo) did not trigger the error again. I guess this'll be a difficult one to track down!

Any ideas on how I could go about isolating the source of this? (Like, when is Jbig2dec supposed to be used).

hawkse wrote:Any ideas on how I could go about isolating the source of this? (Like, when is Jbig2dec supposed to be used).

The problem is that jbig2dec is supposed to be used ONLY when you have a .jb2 extension...

xnview wrote:The problem is that jbig2dec is supposed to be used ONLY when you have a .jb2 extension...

Yes, I figured that. What's the mechanism for recognizing a jb2 file? Just the file extension? Mime type? Any magick at all that could trigger a false "recognition"? Guess it would happen a lot more predictably then.

One thing I've noticed is that it does not happen for folders containing only tif files.

hawkse wrote:

xnview wrote:The problem is that jbig2dec is supposed to be used ONLY when you have a .jb2 extension...

Yes, I figured that. What's the mechanism for recognizing a jb2 file? Just the file extension? Mime type? Any magick at all that could trigger a false "recognition"? Guess it would happen a lot more predictably then.

One thing I've noticed is that it does not happen for folders containing only tif files.

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