NFO Viewer

[steve]

Allows you to view .nfo files using the correct line-drawing characters.

Author: Leo Davidson
Link: http://www.pretentiousname.com/nfo/

[leo]

A new version of the NFO plugin is available from its web page, which has also been updated:

http://www.pretentiousname.com/nfo/

If you already had the latest 'preview' version that was posted in this thread (until I just cleaned up the thread) then the only new things are disabling ClearType and localisation.

Version 1.1.0.15 (11th May 2008):

• Requires Directory Opus 9.1.0.4 or above.
• No longer requires IBMPC.FON; instead the file contents are converted from code-page 437 to UTF-16 and the standard Lucida Console font is used.
• Disables ClearType antialiasing in the NFO viewer. ClearType settings for the rest of the system are left alone. ClearType is disabled in the NFO viewer because it results in ugly green fringes around many of the line-drawing characters, particulary the dithered blocks.
• 64-bit support.
• USB-Mode support.
• Unicode filename support.
• Localised into the same languages as Opus itself.
• (Some of the features listed here for 1.1.0.15 actually appeared in slightly earlier 'preview' versions which were only released to the Opus forums.)

Version 1.0.0.6 (3rd October 2004):

• Requires Directory Opus 6 or above.
• Initial public release.

[gryzor]

No replies? Strange...

Anyhow, I installed it (Win7 64x beta, Opus 9.1.18.3357.x64) and I can't get it to show the files with the font, even though I also tried installing it just in case. I just see it in a tiny, default (?) font... any ideas?

Btw, I just noticed your screenshot: what is the command for the drive usage percentage bar at the bottom?

[leo]

I deleted all the old replies back when I updated the plugin, since they were no longer current/useful and got in the way of finding the new info. I hate going to other forums and having to wade through pages of old, no-longer-relevant discussion to get a handle on the state of a download.

The plugin resizes the font so that every line of the file can fit in the window, on the assumption that the lines won't be long (i.e. wrapped to 80 cols). Maybe the line-drawing symbols just don't look right at such a small size.

My status bar codes can be found here.

[gryzor]

Just tried another nfo file to check it out, here's what I get:



I also created a new nfo file with just a few chars, it gives me the same font...

Thanks for the codes, will look into them!

[leo]

The font looks fine. What are you expecting to see? There are no MS-DOS line-drawing characters in that file by the look of it.

[gryzor]

Aha! I didn't think that it would need the file to contain special characters. I made one up and it shows up fine now

Thanks for a lovely plugin! Only suggestion: maybe a dark background (black? blue) and a light font (yello/white) would make it somewhat better. Also, can the plugin be made to copy any selected text to the clipboard automatically?

[leo]

Possibly... But not for a while. My eventual plan is to get rid of the NFO plugin completely and make it so you can specify codepages for different extensions with the Text plugin, which could then view NFO files. (Maybe integrate the TextThumbs plugin into the Text plugin, too, so all the text stuff is done by one plugin instead of three.)

[gryzor]

Ah well, we'll stick with it then. Thanks, it's really handy