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[1.19.4] Browser forgets "Show files in subfolders"

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:22 am
by eyebex
When choosing "Show files in subfolders" once, images are correctly recursively listed. But when you look at the "View" menu again, there is no checkmark next to "Show files in subfolders", although that is the current mode. This also has the undesired side effect, that when opening a single file and goign back to the browser, the browsers points to the directory where the viewed file is located. IMHO, if "Show files in subfolders" is enabled, the browser should point to the directory where it was before opening the file and "Show files in subfolders" should still be marked as enabled in the "View" menu.

Re: [1.19.4] Browser forgets "Show files in subfolders&

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:18 am
by xnview
eyebex wrote:When choosing "Show files in subfolders" once, images are correctly recursively listed. But when you look at the "View" menu again, there is no checkmark next to "Show files in subfolders", although that is the current mode. This also has the undesired side effect, that when opening a single file and goign back to the browser, the browsers points to the directory where the viewed file is located. IMHO, if "Show files in subfolders" is enabled, the browser should point to the directory where it was before opening the file and "Show files in subfolders" should still be marked as enabled in the "View" menu.
Yes, it's by design, this setting is not kept when you change the folder...

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:59 am
by eyebex
Hmm, okay, so I'm turning my bug report into a feature request. Would it be a big issue to change that behavior? Would it make sense to you to change that?

Re: [1.19.4] Browser forgets "Show files in subfolders&

Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 4:03 pm
by GeorgD
xnview wrote:
eyebex wrote:When choosing "Show files in subfolders" once, images are correctly recursively listed. ... when opening a single file and goign back to the browser, the browsers points to the directory where the viewed file is located.
Yes, it's by design, this setting is not kept when you change the folder...
Pierre, eyebex wrote abour 2 cases; I cited only the one when I look at the current pic in detail - I expect browse mode to stay in its state as no action with folders is done. It is very cumbersome to always go again to the desired folder and re-activate "Show files in subfolders" after each (!) view at a picture... is that also by design? Why this design?

See also http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=16133

Re: [1.19.4] Browser forgets "Show files in subfolders"

Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 11:01 am
by GeorgD
bump :) in 1.97 still cumbersome

Re: [1.19.4] Browser forgets "Show files in subfolders"

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:49 am
by xnview
So 'Show files in subfolder' saved in .ini or not?

Re: [1.19.4] Browser forgets "Show files in subfolders"

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:49 pm
by GeorgD
xnview wrote:So 'Show files in subfolder' saved in .ini or not?
Oops, misunderstanding - I don't care about persisting the mode across closing & restarting XnView (what .ini does), but I care to persist pit within one browsing session: Turn on "subfolders", double click an image to see it bigger, then return to browser and now you're in the directory containing the image instead of where you've been before (more upwards in the path). Please have again a closer look to the posts above, thank you :-)

Re: [1.19.4] Browser forgets "Show files in subfolders"

Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 2:19 pm
by GeorgD
bump - still the same in v1.98.8