Directory Opus 13.18.2 (Beta)

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:warning: This is a beta release. It may be unstable. Some text may not be translated yet. Use at your own risk!

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External Image Formats

You can now integrate support for alternate image formats into Opus using external command line tools (e.g. ImageMagick).

The Preferences / Miscellaneous / External Tools page has a new Image formats section which allows these "external image formats" to be configured. For each image format, you can specify separate command lines for viewing files within Opus and for writing images (converting to that format with the Image Conversion tool). You can also optionally specify a separate command line for extracting thumbnails.

The command line invokes an external command to convert an image between formats Opus understands natively and the "external format". Command lines must include tokens to provide the input and output filenames to the selected conversion tool.

• Viewing

For viewing (and thumbnails), the tokens are:

  • %in% - input filename (this will be a file with the file extension specified for the format)
  • %out_png% - output filename with a .png suffix
  • %out_jpg% - output filename with a .jpg suffix
  • %out_gif% - output filename with a .gif suffix
  • %out_bmp% - output filename with a .bmp suffix, etc.

The output filename will be a file in the %TEMP% folder. The conversion tool must be able to convert the input file to a format that Opus is able to load. You can use any format Opus understands for this - the output tokens shown above are just a guide. For example, %out_psd% could be used if your conversion tool produces Photoshop files.

You should pick an output format that preserves the essential elements of the input image as much as possible. For example, if the format supports alpha transparency, converting to PNG would be more sensible than JPG.

When viewing images it's important the conversion is done as quickly as possible and compression isn't really important (unless you have limited disk space), so you should use any settings supported by your conversion tool to speed up the process as much as possible. For example, when using ImageMagick to convert a file to PNG format you might want to use the -quality 01 flag on the command line to reduce compression to a minimum.

• Writing

For writing images with the Image Conversion tool, the tokens are:

  • %in_png% - input filename in PNG format
  • %in_jpg% - input filename in JPG format
  • %in_gif% - input filename in GIF format
  • %in_bmp% - input filename in BMP format
  • %out% - output filename (this will be a file with the file extension specified for the format)
  • %quality% - quality setting from 1-100

The input filename will be a file in the %TEMP% folder in the specified format. You can only use formats that Opus is able to write, so unlike for viewing the above input tokens are the only ones that are supported.

If your command string includes the %quality% token then the quality field will be available in the Image Conversion tool. This will pass a value from 1 - 100 into your command line.

Preferences

  • Added Colours and Fonts / Windows Colours / Sort arrows above/below labels option. Displays the sort arrows at the top or bottom of the column header so that they don't take up horizontal space.
  • Added File Display Modes / Details / Appearance / Column padding option (and a similar one for Power mode). Allows the extra padding Opus adds to each column in the file display to be reduced or turned off completely.
  • Added Toolbars / Options / Allow default toolbars to be edited Preferences option. If turned off it prevents the default toolbar set from being edited (and always shows the defaults), meaning you never need to update your toolbars to see changes to the defaults.
  • Added Miscellaneous / Advanced: [Information Display] file_size_decimals option. Lets you specify a fixed number of decimal places for file sizes.
  • Added the following viewer options to include all files in the next/previous list rather than just recognised pictures:
    • Viewer / Standalone Viewer / Add all files to the list (instead of only pictures)
    • Viewer / Standalone Viewer / QuickShow / Add all files to next/previous list (instead of only pictures)
  • Drive free/used space pie charts now have their own colors that can be configured separately from those for bar charts.
  • The View Mode Toolbars and Folder Toolbars pages now let you select additional positions for toolbars turned on automatically.
  • Renamed Visually link expanded folders to their contents option to Use inline sub-folder color for parent folders.

Scripting

  • The Script.UpdateFAYTSuggestions() method now takes an optional second argument (true / false). If set to false the suggestion list you provide will not be sorted alphabetically.
  • In script dialogs, Control.MoveItem() now works properly in a grouped listview.
  • Dlg.WatchDir can now monitor a single file for deletion.
  • FSUtil.WatchChanges can now monitor a single file for deletion.
  • Fixed scripts in embedded functions not working properly.
  • Fix for Dlg.NotifyIcon("notify", ...) not doing anything.

Commands

  • Show AUTOFILELIST command now accepts the all keyword, to add all files to next/previous list (instead of only pictures).

Miscellaneous

  • When extraction from a zip file needs a password, the dialog now shows the name of the zip file.
  • Removed extra folders Windows 11 adds to the desktop from the autocompletion list in the location field.
  • Improved Everything startup/shutdown detection.
  • The "Initial Key" metadata field is now supported for Ogg/FLAC files.

Fixes

  • Fixed "grp:Archives" not working in German (failed because the German translation "Archive" is a substring of the English name).
  • Fixed Favorites ADD PATH=... command not identifying files if the path was given using an alias.
  • Fixed folder sizes being calculated when they shouldn't after Everything is shutdown.
  • Fixed inconsistency in This PC folder between how the file display and status bar grouped mapped network drives.
  • Fixed edit control within Location Bar using the old case if you entered a folder, then exited it, did a case-only rename on it, re-entered it, and clicked the path field for editing.
  • Fixed icons in the Quick Access menu not being cached.
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