Faster browsing of images with Quick View

[Jibz]

With Quick View (CTRL-Q) enabled, using IrfanView as image viewer, when I browse through a folder of images it takes a while (1-2 seconds) for each image to load into the Quick View panel.

I assume this is because IrfanView is run as an external program on each file, and TC waits for the resulting image.

It is however very annoying to have to wait 2 seconds for each single image to load when all you want to do is skip down 5 images.

For instance in DO, the Lister Viewer panel just says "loading" and you can still move the cursor up/down to the file you really want.

Would it be possible to run IrfanView in the background, without having TC wait for the result before letting the user do anything?

[MVV]

AFAIK IrfanView works slowly with TC because it sends image to TC in Windows message.

I recommend you to use special TC image viewer plugin like Imagine - it's the best and doesn't need to be loaded every time.

[Balderstrom]

Open IrfanView,
View -> Display options (window mode)
Uncheck:
[x] Use "Resample" for fitting (better quality)

That should speed up image resizing, TC doesn't handle (non-bitmap) images internally at all, you need to use XnView|IrfanView or one of the TC image plugins.