Image Preview Feature Request

Squeak · Post by **Squeak** » 2005 Feb 17, 23:11

Hello all, I just yesterday purchased xplorer², as it seems the explorer replacement that is most committed to funtionality without bloat or feature creep. Expect many feature requests from me in the future, but first one which I would imagine would be fairly easy to impliment. I would like to see the option to have the image preview pane appear on the right, not the left.
If this feature is available but I have failed to find the setting, I apologise. In any case, I imagine this option would fit nicely directly below the 'Dual Pane Alignment' setting in the 'Windows' tab of the options.

Although it wouldn't add functionality, for me personally this is a strong personal preference. Thanks.

Post by **nikos** » 2005 Feb 18, 08:27

the pane framework in x2 is rigid doesn't allowing such "pleasures"
what you can do is place the quickviewer next to the tree; see registry.txt for nTreeQVTileVertical

another possibility is to define separate layouts (Window menu), one that has the tree on and one with a big previewer and no tree. It is unlikely that you'll need both and certaint that you can't fit both in the available screen real estate

Squeak · Post by **Squeak** » 2005 Feb 19, 20:52

Thanks for taking the time to think of possible solutions to my query, but I don't use the tree at all, I just have two horizontally tiled panels.

Also, is it possible to associate image files with xplorer², so that double clicking on them automatically opens the quickviewer? I find the quickviewer such a convenient tool for viewing images, and this would make it even more intuitive for me.

JRz · Post by **JRz** » 2005 Feb 21, 07:14

Squeak wrote:Thanks for taking the time to think of possible solutions to my query, but I don't use the tree at all, I just have two horizontally tiled panels.

Also, is it possible to associate image files with xplorer², so that double clicking on them automatically opens the quickviewer? I find the quickviewer such a convenient tool for viewing images, and this would make it even more intuitive for me.

File associations are not handled by X², but by Windows!

So when you double click on any file it is Windows which handles starting the right (or wrong in your case

) application. X² simply re-uses this functionality.

But why would you want this? Just hit Ctrl+Q to open the quickviewer pane and it will stay open for all your images. You are probably busy viewing more than one of them as it is, no?

If you would like to see images in the pane itself, you could also consider changing the default view type to thumbnails for your image folders (use Actions|Folder settings|Save to save the view type only for this folder!)