Sorting - help ?

[Amamba]

If I have a thumbnail selected, and change sorting order (say from Date to File name) I lose the selected file & have to scroll to find it.

Is there a setting to fix this ? I want to retain the focus on selected file when the thumbnails are re-sorted.

[xnview]

strange, i have not that, the selected thumbnail is no more selected??

[JohnFredC]

Indeed, after sorting, a selected file does remain selected...

... but frequently it has scrolled out of the view and the user has to go looking for it again. When there are hundreds or thousands of images in the thumb panel, this user activity can take an unproductively long interval. Profanity can ensue.

After a sort operation, please scroll the thumb panel to expose the first thumb of an existing selection.

Thanks for listening!

[Amamba]

Yes, that's precisely what happens. The selected image is still selected... somewhere among hundreds of other images.

I used Faststone and it always keeps the selected image visible on screen. I want to switch to XNview mainly due to Keywords support but it's driving me nuts. I use XNView to find the raw file I want to edit, send it to Photo Ninja, then switch back to the viewer and upload the processed file to Flickr using Flickr Uploadr. With Faststone, I can sort by date & get the newly produced image, then sort back by file name & compare it to the previously processed or SOOC image before uploading. With XNView, I can't find a way to do that. My selected image is still selected but I now have to scroll back and forth until I find it.

So, does this mean there's no fix ?

[m.Th.]

Yes, that's precisely what happens. The selected image is still selected... somewhere among hundreds of other images.

I used Faststone and it always keeps the selected image visible on screen. I want to switch to XNview mainly due to Keywords support but it's driving me nuts. I use XNView to find the raw file I want to edit, send it to Photo Ninja, then switch back to the viewer and upload the processed file to Flickr using Flickr Uploadr. With Faststone, I can sort by date & get the newly produced image, then sort back by file name & compare it to the previously processed or SOOC image before uploading. With XNView, I can't find a way to do that. My selected image is still selected but I now have to scroll back and forth until I find it.

So, does this mean there's no fix ?

Currently, as you found out, this isn't implemented. But "the fix" is rather easy to do - usually these views employ something methods like ScrollBy (or similar) which do it either automatically, either by a simple formula (read the (absolute?) Y coordinate of the focused thumb and if it is outside of the Thumbs pane's rectangle the call ScrollBy with the offset.

[xnview]

See Issue 489 for current status and details.

[Amamba]

Thank you ! Is it possible to download the .69 version ?