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Re: IrfanView

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You could use TDictionary. It has been around since 15 years.

Sadly by 2009 I'd moved on to a new job and didn't have much opportunity to use it. It didn't even have generics when I used it last. Looks like you have to allocate and free them manually though, which is less than I hoped for. I rather like the scripting languages where they are part of the syntax and seamlessly decode from JSON.

No true Delphiman would say that ;)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

Re: IrfanView

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I know about Ansys Fluent, the CFD software. I'm guessing you are not talking about it. Can you provide a link to this software?

I think they mean this: https://github.com/adirh3/Fluent-Search

Looks interesting, thanks. Can't tell yet if it has the same incredible lack of bloat as Everything (the Everything version I used for years was about 350KB all up!) but I'll give it a spin.

Re: IrfanView

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I've been using IrfanView since at least 1997, if not earlier in 1996. I still use IrfanView to this day. It's my Swiss knife for a lot of simple photo editing work (cropping, resizing, padding, text-adding, etc), batch-processing, and for browsing single photos through directories. It's not just good, it's way faster than the bloated alternatives. To top it off, IrfanView works beautifully on my Linux via Wine, and…

You want to open a picture, FAST, no matter the format or resolution ? You want to open a picture and then move from one picture to the next in the same folder with arrow keys or mouse scroll, again fast and without loading or menus fonctions or whatever ? You want to batch process a folder to convert all files to png with the larger side limited to 2000px, keep the location data but reset the orientation data, and r…

> You want to open a picture and then move from one picture to the next in the same folder with arrow keys or mouse scroll, again fast and without loading or menus fonctions or whatever ?

And moving to an adjacent folder is not much slower, because it includes a custom folder browser that allows quick navigation up and down the directory hierarchy using the arrow keys.

Re: IrfanView

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The built-in viewer in windows is fine. I can't really think of a feature that it doesn't have that I need. Could you say why irfanview gets your vote?

The batch image manipulation features it offers are pretty handy. Plus you can press L or R to rotate an image and it has lossless rotate options as well.

> and it has lossless rotate options as well

… and lossless cropping, too.

Re: IrfanView

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Wiztree is a good alternative to Tree size, it's almost instantaneous

Not sure why you're being downvoted. WinDirStat (which used to be my goto) took over 6 minutes and ate 625mb of ram. TreeSize Free took over 30 seconds, I'm not sure how much ram as it doesn't report it. It also kept trying to upsell me. WizTree took less than 8 seconds. What's wrong with it? edit: 2tb nvme ssd, mostly full of rubbish, windows 10.

wow it's even fast at samba shares, that's amazing. The NAS did sound like it was having a seizure, though.

Re: IrfanView

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>it plays full HD video WHAT? IN 4 MB??? WHAT??? That's amazing!

I'm just at the Revision demoparty in Germany, you should see the audiovisual stuff people are doing in 4kb (yes, 4096 bytes)! Modern operating systems and especially web dev have made entire generations forget how powerful computers and software are / can be.

https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/ 256 bytes the mp3 is 2.1MB ;-)

Re: IrfanView

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Lest Mac users miss out on the nostalgia trip the Windows users are enjoying in this thread: Remember GraphicConverter? It's still around and actively developed. 32 years old! https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/

In this thread someone mentioned photosift which does the 1 thing i miss about graphicconverter - sorting while watching a slideshow and pressing buttons to copy to specified, arbitrary folders. downloaded, and testing soon.

Long gone are the days where people would come to me asking if i could open some file, so the other uses i had for graphicconverter are gone too.

Re: IrfanView

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My list is a bit smaller, but has some overlap. For all platforms (Linux, Windows, MacOS):

  1. Sublime Text & VIM (for all things text)
  2. Firefox with tampermonkey & ublock origin (browsing 101)
For Windows additionally and in general:

  3. Everything (Uses it as my launcher and finder of everything on my computer)
  4. Irfanview (must-have for everything image-related)
  5. Classic Shell/Explorer (to get a usable winXP-like desktop)
  6. Gamma Panel (Adjust brightness via keyboard shortcut presets)
  7. O&O Shut Up (for same reason as you)
  8. Autoruns (to disable all useless services & scheduled crap-ware in windows)
  9. MSys (for linuxy everyday tools, can't work without 'em).
  10. Conda (with opencv, torch ... for automation and graphics munging)
  11. Winamp (For all things music consumption)
  12. VirtualDub ("Irfanview" for Video)
  13. MediaPlayer Home Cinema + ffdshow & LAV filters/splitter (Better VLC)
  14. Avisynth (All things video processing)
For Linux:

  3. Irfanview (must-have for everything image-related)
  4. Conda (for heavier automation than bash)
  5. Wine + (Irfanview, Virtualdub, Avisynth)
For Mac:

  3. iTerm (for a usable terminal)
  4  Homebrew (to get linux tools so I can work)
  5. iStat Menu (to know what the heck my laptop is doing)
  6. Conda (for automation)
Mac's built-in brighness buttons serve sufficiently well as an alternative to Gamma Panel.

(Haven't found a wine-variant for MacOS, so I have to make do with the shtty preview instead of irfanview. For Video stuff I'm forced to use Linux or Windows for via remote desktop).

I wish there was cross-platform install bundle that contained:

  * Irfanview, Everything, Avisynth, Virtualdub, MPCHC with LAV filters
... wrapped up in whatever emulation layer suitable for the platform (cross-over/wine or whatever)

If someone aims to create such, that'd be awesome :)

Re: IrfanView

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Wiztree is a good alternative to Tree size, it's almost instantaneous

Not sure why you're being downvoted. WinDirStat (which used to be my goto) took over 6 minutes and ate 625mb of ram. TreeSize Free took over 30 seconds, I'm not sure how much ram as it doesn't report it. It also kept trying to upsell me. WizTree took less than 8 seconds. What's wrong with it? edit: 2tb nvme ssd, mostly full of rubbish, windows 10.

Directory Report has a 64bit version so that you can scan millions of files without running out of memory
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