XnView Software

When being in browser mode and preview tab "EXIF" is active, I see an edit icon in front of the EXIF dates. Fine but clicking any field does not open the edit box but I have to type some number (!) in order to get the GUI calendar (!). That's really strange and I consider this to be a bug. A double click on the icon or the date field shall open the calendar.

Moreover, I git the dialog "Do you want to save your changes" yes/no in a loop => screen is flooded with dozens of instances. I am not sure what exactly caused that bug as I cannot reproduce it. I was in browser mode, tagged a pic, rated the same or another one (?), in preview pane clicked heavyly on exif, modified the date. Sequence of actions may not be correct. Then I clicked on another image...

/Georg

GeorgD wrote:When being in browser mode and preview tab "EXIF" is active, I see an edit icon in front of the EXIF dates. Fine but clicking any field does not open the edit box but I have to type some number (!) in order to get the GUI calendar (!). That's really strange and I consider this to be a bug. A double click on the icon or the date field shall open the calendar.

Moreover, I git the dialog "Do you want to save your changes" yes/no in a loop => screen is flooded with dozens of instances. I am not sure what exactly caused that bug as I cannot reproduce it. I was in browser mode, tagged a pic, rated the same or another one (?), in preview pane clicked heavyly on exif, modified the date. Sequence of actions may not be correct. Then I clicked on another image...

You can't reproduce it?

xnview wrote:

GeorgD wrote:I am not sure what exactly caused that bug as I cannot reproduce it.

You can't reproduce it?

Sorry, no. I know it's not nice for a coder to hear "there's a bug, but I cannot tell you where/when" Be asured I'll report more details in case it happens again - maybe it was just once, like the lack of all filters (after copying all 1.8.2.4 filters to the 1.9a3 direcectory) happens exactly once (first start).

@GeorgD: Did the problem occur again? Is there a way to reproduce the problem?

I've just tried to reproduce your problem, the only issues that I found are:
- The editable fields have to be clicked twice and slowly for editing. It does not always react. This should be improved.

- The editabe datefields are very wide, much wider than the date displayed.

- The icon gives you the feeling that you have to click on it for editing (which is not the case).

See the update below for 1.90b2!

helmut wrote:@GeorgD: Did the problem occur again? Is there a way to reproduce the problem?

Nope, never happened again - is that good (does not happen[often]) or bad (bug still exists and can't be hunted down)? At least I can live quite fine like this

helmut wrote:- The editable fields have to be clicked twice and slowly for editing. It does not always react. This should be improved.

Moreover, they do a) display another language (XnView is UK, field names are DE - I don't care) and b) changes are not saved (clicking on the date pops up a calendar, clicking another date in this calender does not provoke any action, calendar stays on top, data in drop down is not changed, ESC and Enter have same (zero) effect). When clicking on another image in the browser pane, I will be asked whether I wanna save my changes, but after yes and returning to the "changed" image, nothing was changed. It works perfectly well when NOT using the calendar, but directly changing inside the drop down.

in order of my priority:
=> make XnView save the changes I make in the calendar
=> bring calendar up after fast AND slow double click on edit icon (in front of row) and date field
=> maybe let XnView override the language for EXIF field titles (I don't care at all)

helmut wrote:- The editabe datefields are very wide, much wider than the date displayed.

Hm, that's not bugging me that much, but the column containing the field titles is very wide and cannot be changed in it's width. When working on the road (1024x768px) I can't make the preview area big enough to click the date AND still see a considerable amount of pics in the browser pane.

Moreover, when I change to the next image, the preview pane shows the tab "properties" -- it does not remember my last setting. Very annoying when checking/changing the EXIF info of a narrow set of images (for a big set, I'd change the view in browser pane).

=> make the EXIF colum wide adjustable
=> remember last active tab in preview pane (it'd be perfect if column width and/or scrolling position would be remembered, too, so I'll directly see the info I need for ALL files)

helmut wrote:- The icon gives you the feeling that you have to click on it for editing (which is not the case).

Hm, but AFAIK it was in alpha3?! *wondering*

And a very general question: Why can I change the EXIF dates in browser mode, but not in view mode? In view mode, opening properties and changing to EXIF info just shows something different than the preview pane in browser mode...IMHO strange

/Georg

Now my results for 1.90b2: The only change from b1 happened here:

GeorgD wrote:=> make XnView save the changes I make in the calendar
=> bring calendar up after fast AND slow double click on edit icon (in front of row) and date field
=> maybe let XnView override the language for EXIF field titles (I don't care at all)

One part of 2nd bulled changed: a click on the edit icon changes the drop down to be editable, but does not bring up the calendar on a second click.

/Georg

In Beta 5:
- Double-clicking on whole line (Icon, Title, Field) (slow or fast) enter edit mode.
- Calender can be called with the small arrow.
- Date is updated with Calender use.
- XnView prompts once for saving changes when losing focus (changing file)
- Columns have the right size (=longer item listed) and scroll bar allows to move, although columns are not resizable.
- Tab selected is remembered between files (provided info exist), although scroll position is not remembered.
- I didn't see any problem in the EXIF (but may be due to my settings).

=> Can we close this topic?

GeorgD wrote: Moreover, I git the dialog "Do you want to save your changes" yes/no in a loop => screen is flooded with dozens of instances. I am not sure what exactly caused that bug as I cannot reproduce it. I was in browser mode, tagged a pic, rated the same or another one (?), in preview pane clicked heavyly on exif, modified the date. Sequence of actions may not be correct. Then I clicked on another image...

/Georg

Fixed in ß-6.