Universal Viewer - Lister alternative

[Alextp]

Clo
These issues exist for IrfanView option. See the caption, does it contain "(i_view32)" string?
if you uncheck IView option it will be OK (anyway I';ll try to fix it).

[Clo]

2Alextp

Hello !

• Thank you ! But this occurs the same even when I remove *.ico from the extensions allocated to xxx_View.
- I know that there is an old strange bug in Delphi for such images (*.ico and *.bmp 24 BPP) having a solid pastel BG colour.
I experienced that for years in “my” HTML editor «Hélios» (by Sébastien Morey) for the bitmaps
used as icons in the programme itself.
- Let's notice that some colours are eaten, while others are not,
i.e. the light blue of the icons of the navigation panel (with the anchor).
- I found a workaround that you'll see on 4 small images I send you now.
- It's to enclose the motif within a frame either pure black or “Magenta”.
- That frame acts as a “lure-barrier”. It's eaten itself, but the rest of the solid BG is shown normally.
- The inconvenience is that the room for the motif is reduced by 2 pixels at height and width, always…
- To avoid that the pure black “0,0,0” be eaten, I tried an almost black colour instead like “4,4,4”, it's OK.

 KR
Claude
Clo

[Alextp]

Thank you ! But this occurs the same even when I remove *.ico from the extensions allocated to xxx_View.

Nop, it's OK here.

I know that there is an old strange bug in Delphi for such images

That's not in Delphi, that's issue with IView which cannot give the bitmap filled with *non black*.

Let's notice that some colours are eaten, while others are not

Black is eaten. Others are not, It's issue with black only
I cannot resolve this usse with IView and black, so I'll remove ICO for IView option.

[Clo]

Again…

- Like I said above, that's not a xxx_View issue, since I've removed *.ico from the xxx_View extensions.
- Hence, icons are displayed from the internal library.
- And about the Delphi issue, you can trust me, it's an annoyance I'd to fight against for years…
- Did you watch the test images I sent you ? In U.V., and also in another image-viewer ?
- The only way to display correctly the transparency for icons is to load them “as” 32 BPP, that XnView does now.
I don't know for Irfanview, I don't use it.

 KR
Claude
Clo

[Alextp]

Replied in e-mail.

[Clo]

2Alextp

Hello !

• I tested the very last beta about the icons, there is a good progress, thanks, and also some remaning hitches, to sum up :

1. *.ico with transparent or solid BG is displayed properly in UV, but only under the conditions :

• The use of xxx_View must be totally disabled. Even if I disable the priority, while *.ico is not assigned to xxx_View,
I get them from, so with a quite black BG.
- IMHO, only disabling the priority might be sufficient in the case…

2. The display of *.bmp is not OK when the transparency option is set ON.
- In example, I've added the BMP-sources of all the icons of the TEST PACKAGE in it (please, reload).
- Viewing these BMPs in UV, one can notice that the most show an unexpected transparent BG,
while all have a white BG, except a bunch with the light-blue BG which are not affected, like said before…
- Indeed these 24 BPP BMPs don't contain transparency data like said already,
and are displayed alright in other viewers with their white BGs.

3. I got still a lot of «Unknown image format» messages viewing the test-icons.
Especially in the “Pro” version, using whatever view mode.

• Aside, about the thumb nails view for icons : Stating that all *.ico must contain a 48² frame is rather stupid…
- I know, it isn't your own stuff.
- The library uses the Win Explorer features, but checking that, I can notice that here Win Explorer blows up the icons in the thumbnails “only” from 24² to 32².

KR
Claude
Clo

[tbeu]

It would be nice to have the chance to read/edit the final command line of external tools like TC does by using the ? parameter for commands.

[Alextp]

2tbeu
OK, in to-do.

[tbeu]

Alex, thanks for updating your to-dos.

Is there any chance to see a custom tool dialog on top of UV if Always on top is selected in UV?

[Alextp]

thanks for updating your to-dos.

It's done.

Is there any chance to see a custom tool dialog on top of UV

It is on top, like all other dialogs.
Please write in e-mail what is wrong with it.

[Clo]

Hello !

• The updated French Help file is available HERE for the 2.4.0 RC.
- This is the only Help version where the “RegEx” page is totally translated…;)

 KR
Claude
Clo

[Alextp]

Version 2.4.0 released.
What's new

[Alextp]

Next version will have combined Unicode+Hex mode. Like in FAR manager.
It looks like this:

[img]http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/1564/uhexdy0.gif[/img]


Ghisler can also do this mode, maybe.

[sas2000]

 

Next version will have combined Unicode+Hex mode. Like in FAR manager.
It looks like this:

[img]http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/1564/uhexdy0.gif[/img]

Thanks .
 

[Alextp]

Beta updated.