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Re: IrfanView

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Post by nrdvana » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 5:01 AM UTC

nurettin wrote: post #236

nrdvana wrote: post #221

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Delphi kicked ass. Though, looking back, it didn't have hash tables at your fingertips like modern languages. I really can't imagine writing code without hashmaps anymore. Did that ever get added, and in a convenient way that doesn't require declaring a new object each time?

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.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by saint11 » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 6:30 AM UTC

creatonez wrote: post #132

I've found nomacs to be a good alternative: https://nomacs.org/ It hits the sweet spot when it comes to clipboard functionality -- You can either copy the image itself, or copy its path on the filesystem. Most image viewers only support one of these commands.

Same here, it's cropping tool is the thing that makes it for me

Re: IrfanView

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Post by Semaphor » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 7:43 AM UTC

AlienRobot wrote: post #302

Semaphor wrote: post #247

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> I suppose the key difference is Not really the difference in context of IrfanView which is also just an image viewer. I tried JpegView, but it’s lacking several features I use in IV, and stuff I commonly do in IV is harder to do, so for me IV is a clear and easy winner. Performance is a little better, but not in a way I’d actually care about (mainly superfast skipping through images is slightly faster)

Could you tell me which features do you use in IrfanView that JpegView lacks?

Just from memory as I uninstalled it already:

* Settings in one place, that way I could have probably easily found out how to remove the annoying zoom-features.

* Batch conversion

* Slideshow: Add files/folders, not just a textfile or folder

* Slideshow: More options in general, e.g. random or unique random.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by felixg3 » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 10:43 AM UTC

wanderingmind wrote: post #310

aagha wrote: post #300

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Have you tried using Fluent? It uses Everything as the back-end search and then adds steroids to it.

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

Re: IrfanView

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Post by ajolly » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 2:25 PM UTC

idiocrat wrote: post #320

akoboldfrying wrote: post #254

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Everything is the best program I have ever used. I couldn't live without it at this point. It would be like cutting off both arms.

Chipping in dnGrep. Allows to grep inside XLSX and Word files. http://dngrep.github.io/

Everything 1.5 beta does this.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by ajolly » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 2:29 PM UTC

nrdvana wrote: post #220

nolok wrote: post #173

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Each their own, that's mine. Note that this is not a tech user or developper list, but the list of what I install on any new windows pc, including those at work etc ... 7zip (open any archive) VLC (open any audio/video file) IrfanView (+ the "all plugins" installer on the same page, open any picture file) SumatraPDF (read PDFs) Libreoffice (to open any office files) NAPS2 (easy scan, and split/merge/... PDFs) Ditto (…

Not using windows much anymore, but great to hear about O&O and ExplorerPatcher. I notice you don't list an ssh client. I still install cygwin for that. Anything new besides putty?

If you prefer GUI then bitvise has a solid ssh client

Re: IrfanView

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Post by sombragris » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 4:53 PM UTC

A GPLv3 similar app for Windows, very useful, is ImageGlass:

https://imageglass.org

Re: IrfanView

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Post by zimmund » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 5:00 PM UTC

sombragris wrote: post #327

A GPLv3 similar app for Windows, very useful, is ImageGlass: https://imageglass.org

For Linux users looking for something similar to IrfanView, nomacs is the closest I found to IrfanView since I moved away from Windows:

https://nomacs.org/

Re: IrfanView

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Post by AlienRobot » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 5:53 PM UTC

Semaphor wrote: post #323

AlienRobot wrote: post #302

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Could you tell me which features do you use in IrfanView that JpegView lacks?

Just from memory as I uninstalled it already: * Settings in one place, that way I could have probably easily found out how to remove the annoying zoom-features. * Batch conversion * Slideshow: Add files/folders, not just a textfile or folder * Slideshow: More options in general, e.g. random or unique random.

Thanks. I never use the slideshow features so I guess I didn't notice.

I do think it's odd to expect an image viewer to be able to do batch conversion, though. That's what I meant by a read-only image viewer.

Re: IrfanView

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Post by Semaphor » Mon, Apr 01, 2024, 7:42 PM UTC

AlienRobot wrote: post #329

Semaphor wrote: post #323

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Just from memory as I uninstalled it already: * Settings in one place, that way I could have probably easily found out how to remove the annoying zoom-features. * Batch conversion * Slideshow: Add files/folders, not just a textfile or folder * Slideshow: More options in general, e.g. random or unique random.

Thanks. I never use the slideshow features so I guess I didn't notice. I do think it's odd to expect an image viewer to be able to do batch conversion, though. That's what I meant by a read-only image viewer.

It does support batch rename, though. And generally I want to resize images while looking at them, and not go elsewhere for that. But only when I want it to, no automation.