Add one more item to "View>File"
Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:47 pm
I just looked at the Customize Toolbar dialog for XnView 1.97.4 Windows, and there was no "cmd_" string listed for this function; otherwise I wouldn't be requesting it.
A "Go To" command that calls up a small dialog box (limited input to numbers in the editable field), maybe with a slash and the total number of viewable items in the current working directory (eg: "{editbox here} /200").
Again, it's something I recall GraphicConverter X having, and Irfan has something analogous in his window toolbars -- though why this insists on ringing the "system bell" sound whenever one changes the number is still something I scratch my head about from time to time.
How useful would it be? Let's say the user has a list of pictures in a folder generated by another application or utility, which they have open in a text editor that displays line numbers. The user discovers that the picture he wants to view, edit the metadata of, or modify in some other way is #200 of the 515 in the directory. Rather than click through from picture #1 to the one they want, the user could instead enter the number in the edit box called up by View>File>Go To: and expect the image to "jump" to one that, if not exactly the one they thought #200 would be, at least something closer to it in the directory than #1.
The above is a real-world scenario. It's the "I wanted to do this in XnView but couldn't" that inspired this thread. Of course, allowing that Windows, Linux and XnView have different approaches to sorting alphanumerically, one shouldn't expect the result to be "dead on" all the time.
BZT
A "Go To" command that calls up a small dialog box (limited input to numbers in the editable field), maybe with a slash and the total number of viewable items in the current working directory (eg: "{editbox here} /200").
Again, it's something I recall GraphicConverter X having, and Irfan has something analogous in his window toolbars -- though why this insists on ringing the "system bell" sound whenever one changes the number is still something I scratch my head about from time to time.
How useful would it be? Let's say the user has a list of pictures in a folder generated by another application or utility, which they have open in a text editor that displays line numbers. The user discovers that the picture he wants to view, edit the metadata of, or modify in some other way is #200 of the 515 in the directory. Rather than click through from picture #1 to the one they want, the user could instead enter the number in the edit box called up by View>File>Go To: and expect the image to "jump" to one that, if not exactly the one they thought #200 would be, at least something closer to it in the directory than #1.
The above is a real-world scenario. It's the "I wanted to do this in XnView but couldn't" that inspired this thread. Of course, allowing that Windows, Linux and XnView have different approaches to sorting alphanumerically, one shouldn't expect the result to be "dead on" all the time.
BZT