[Suggestion] In-memory extracting of archives
Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:20 pm
Currently browsing a zip archive is though immensely handy feature of XnView but it leaves thousands of temporary extracted files and those are NOT deleted (which alone is a bug of course).
But the main thing is that since it's very easy to extract archived files to a RAM space (as far as I know all modern unzip/etc libraries allow do that), XnView would substantially improve user friendliness of archive browsing in terms of: (no) disk space used, ergo far more speedy building of thumbnails(!).
A somewhat related (and mentioned a few times before) aspect of archive browsing is a behaviour of the Enter / doubleclick hotkey on the image displayed which belongs to an archive. Currently it's counter-productive (it shows TEMP folder of the Windows) whereas isn't it an obvious improvement to let the browser regain focus of the archive being explored?
But the main thing is that since it's very easy to extract archived files to a RAM space (as far as I know all modern unzip/etc libraries allow do that), XnView would substantially improve user friendliness of archive browsing in terms of: (no) disk space used, ergo far more speedy building of thumbnails(!).
A somewhat related (and mentioned a few times before) aspect of archive browsing is a behaviour of the Enter / doubleclick hotkey on the image displayed which belongs to an archive. Currently it's counter-productive (it shows TEMP folder of the Windows) whereas isn't it an obvious improvement to let the browser regain focus of the archive being explored?