ExifTool info panel problems

[jdp1024]

The ExifTool panel is useful to me, there are 2 problems:

1. I guess this is related to Windows Defender. The first time I switch to ExifTool panel, XnView MP takes more than 10 seconds before the exif data is displayed. I restart Windows and in the Windows terminal, I use the embedded exiftool.exe with a big jpg file, it takes 10 seconds to get result. The next time I run exiftool with another jpg file, the execution speed is normal.

If I don't use ExifTool panel and use the EXIF panel, it still takes XNView MP 0.x seconds when I switch one file to another. It seems that XnView MP has done more works than just extracting the header.

2. The column widths of all the info panels cannot be adjusted, and the category indentation is quite big. In "Properties" and "EXIT" panels, the fields are not long, but in ExifTool, there are usually very long fields, I have to scroll horizonally to see the value of the fields for each file I browse. It is quite embarrassing.

[xnview]

1. I guess this is related to Windows Defender. The first time I switch to ExifTool panel, XnView MP takes more than 10 seconds before the exif data is displayed. I restart Windows and in the Windows terminal, I use the embedded exiftool.exe with a big jpg file, it takes 10 seconds to get result. The next time I run exiftool with another jpg file, the execution speed is normal.

Windows 10? the first time XnView starts ExifTool thread and can take more time but not 10 seconds...

2. The column widths of all the info panels cannot be adjusted, and the category indentation is quite big. In "Properties" and "EXIT" panels, the fields are not long, but in ExifTool, there are usually very long fields, I have to scroll horizonally to see the value of the fields for each file I browse. It is quite embarrassing.

could you post a screenshot?

[jdp1024]

This is the width I set to the panel. You can see the horizontal scroll bar is just a small part of the whole image.

This is almost the full width. Because of the long field text (see the XMP section), even set to this wide, the scroll bar is still visible.

The problem is the column width is not adjustable, the width is set to the width of the longest field/value.

[jdp1024]

Windows 10? the first time XnView starts ExifTool thread and can take more time but not 10 seconds...

Windows 11 23H2. I guess this is because of the cloud submission or something like that. The first time run is ridiculously slow, after it, the speed is fine.

But even after the first time, I can see a CPU usage peak of XnView MP in Task Manager for 0.x seconds. EXIF decoding is a simple task, it looks like the image data is decoded, not just the header.

[xnview]

you means that column 0 width should be lesser?

Windows 11 23H2. I guess this is because of the cloud submission or something like that. The first time run is ridiculously slow, after it, the speed is fine.

but Windows defender scan only 1 time Exiftool not always i think

[jdp1024]

you means that column 0 width should be lesser?

Windows 11 23H2. I guess this is because of the cloud submission or something like that. The first time run is ridiculously slow, after it, the speed is fine.

but Windows defender scan only 1 time Exiftool not always i think

I mean the column width should be adjustable and saved to the ini. In my screenshot, the first column is too wide, but it's hard to set a universal column width for all scenarios.

I have no idea why the first time run of exiftool.exe is unreasonably slow.

[xnview]

if column width becomes adjustable, we need to add a header on top of panel to adjust

[jdp1024]

if column width becomes adjustable, we need to add a header on top of panel to adjust

Please consider adding this feature to make the Info panel more usable.

[xnview]

or i limit the length of label's field?

[jdp1024]

or i limit the length of label's field?

Doing so will cause any long field text truncated and cannot be fully displayed.

[user0]

or i limit the length of label's field?

adding header is better, eg like in Nomacs

[xnview]

See issue for current status and some details.

[jdp1024]

See issue for current status and some details.

Where can I get the 1.8.7 beta version?

[xnview]

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.8.7. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

[jdp1024]

This problem is supposed to be fixed in XnView MP 1.8.7. Please check and confirm the bug fix here.

Thanks for the fix. Could you please also add the header to the EXIF (not ExifTool) and other tabs containing a key-value list?

The indentation takes too much space as you can see in the screenshot, can it be narrower?

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