XnView Software

While viewing a picture (or video), if I press Enter, then the browser comes to the foregreound, but leaves the picture open in the background. Im not sure what I expected to happen when I pressed Enter, but it definetally wasn't that.

A surely!?

Paul

paul_ahb wrote:While viewing a picture (or video), if I press Enter, then the browser comes to the foregreound, but leaves the picture open in the background. Im not sure what I expected to happen when I pressed Enter, but it definetally wasn't that.

No, it's normal, not a
XnView keeps opened pictures.
But perhaps i can add an option to close the view???
Pierre.

The only strange thing that I see is that pressing enter on a picture effectively makes it dissapear. I would have thought that doing nothing would be better than sending it to the background.

In preferrence, I would like to see it maximised rather than dissapear (if that is a possibility)?

thanks,
Paul

paul_ahb wrote:The only strange thing that I see is that pressing enter on a picture effectively makes it dissapear. I would have thought that doing nothing would be better than sending it to the background.
In preferrence, I would like to see it maximised rather than dissapear (if that is a possibility)?

Sorry i don't understand, pressing enter open another view...
Pierre.

Sorry, I also don't understand what you mean. I will try to explain it in a different way:

When I open XnView, it takes me to a maximised browse window in the last folder that I was in. This is typically the root of my photograph archive (good)

When I browse to a picture and click enter to open it, it opens up and displays maximised on the screen (good)

If I click enter again then the browse menu appears again and the picture dissapeared (initially I assumed that the picture was closed). Later I found out that the enter key must actually be bringing the browser to the foreground, pushing the image to the background. (not so good)

I just think that it is a bit strange that pressing the enter key while viewing a picture makes it hide. If anything, I think it should make it more prominent (eg become full screen).

[BTW: I don't use the mouse to browse, becuase I am using a remote control that has keystrokes mapped to it's buttons. So effectively I use a limited set of keys (about 20) to browse my photos. This seems to work fine]

Paul