XnView Software

I've been using xnview on a sony vaio laptop running NT 2000 (sp4 final), and liked it a great deal. I recently upgraded to a Dell Inspirion 1300 also running NT 2000 sp4 final, installed xnview (1.82.2), and now I have a problem. When I double-click on an associated file in Windows Explorer (say a .jpg, but any filetype acts the same) the program runs, but it does not display. I know it is running because I can see it on the process listing of the task manager (however, not on the applications page). I upgraded to the latest version, 1.82.4, same thing. Uninstalled and reinstalled, same thing.

However, drag/drop a file onto the xnview icon, works fine. Use the File/Open menu from inside xnview, works fine. Use the Send To menu, works fine. The "Browse with xnview..." option for folders works fine as well.

Once again, the machine is a Dell Inspiron 1300 notebook, 512 mb ram, intel 915 video, running win2k sp4 final.


This seems like an odd one. Hope someone can help. Thank you,

Tom Asbury

Hi & welcome

(Unofficial) XnView file association manager should be able to fix this.

FAQ "How to associate image files with XnView" might help.

Ran xfam, updated associations, now neither double-click on a graphics file, nor
send-to work. Association text seems ok:
"c:\Program Files\xnview\xnview.exe" "%1"
Once again, drag/drop, file/open, "browse with xnview..." on folder, all work.
Process is running but application not listed...

Also (persuant to Helmut's post) tried re-associating inside xnview. No change in program behavior. I was beginning to suspect that this is a problem in command line parsing, that applies to my dell running nt 2000 that somehow does not apply to the vaio running the same o/s.

However, when I run xnview from the command line, eq:
"c:\Program files\xnview\xnview.exe" c:\copy\helloworld.png
it comes up fine. Running it similarly from the "Run..." dialog in the Start button works too.

Of course, now that I restored the file associations from inside xnview, I can't look at the association text from inside windows explorer on the Tools/Folder Options/File types dialog.

tasbury wrote: This seems like an odd one. Hope someone can help. Thank you,

Make sure the command line window's registry uses for 'open with' does not have "-slide" in it.
The following topic should help:
http://newsgroup.xnview.com/viewtopic.php?t=3549

Gotcha!

Right On, Marsh. Works now.

That doesn't explain why it worked with nt2k on the Sony but not on the Dell, but now that I think about it, the Sony was an upgrade from oh, what, 1.80.0, I think. The registry key was no doubt already in place. and probably not changed during the upgrade.

Thank you all,
Tom

Good stuff, marsh did it, again! Thanks marsh for providing the right link