XnView Software

XnViewMP 1.7.2 64bit
Windows11 (23H2), display resolution 3840x2160, win scaling 150%

Viewer - spotlight
few issues

to reproduce
1. open any image in Viewer

Issue A
2. open Spotlight...
no Spotlight effect is applied,
Undo has 1 step history
expected behaviour
- Spotlight effect to be shown by default (as it applies if you click Apply button)
- Undo button to be greyed (as there should be no step back on start)

Issue B
2. make selection
3. open Spotlight...
selection remains, but no spotlight effect applied to this selection

Issue C
2. open Spotlight...
3. make selection
4. press Esc
Spotlight panel closes, but spotlight effect still shows (no dirty indictor though, as it only applies to cached image)




Related

• issues
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  1.7.2 - viewer - spotlight - few issues (1.8.1) current post
  1.6.1 - viewer - spotlight - scrolling filelist issues (1.8.1)
  1.4.4 - viewer - selection loses highlight after Spotlight (1.5.0)

Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce the problem.

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.8.1. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

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