XnView Software

XnView v1.9.9: ini-setting 'showInfo' broken

The keyboard shortcut 'cmd_infoShow' (default key = i) allows toggling the display of additional details about the currently viewed image. The state of this toggle is supposed to be remembered and is usually saved to xnview.ini, in the section [Viewer], under the flag 'showInfo='. It either holds the value 'true' for enabled or 'false' for disabled.

In XnView v1.9.9, the flag 'showInfo=' is no longer updated and read. 'cmd_infoShow' can still be toggled when viewing an image, but it always resets to enabled. It can't be permanently toggled off anymore.

This feature works as expected in v1.9.8 and earlier releases.

EDIT: Updated last line with a partial strike-through.

i can't reproduce, how do you see the problem?

Because you said that you cannot reproduce the issue, I started from scratch with an empty .ini file.

With the fresh .ini file consisting of default settings only, the 'cmd_infoShow' would behave as intended again. So I began adding back my settings one line at a time, doing a test run after each line change.

It turns out that the issue is triggered when the setting 'startInFull=' is set to 1 or 2. The issue does not occur when 'startInFull=' is set to 0 (default).

I learned that XnView v1.9.8 is affected by the same issue, too. I just didn't notice it until today.