Despite searching everywhere, I did not find a way to achieve this in the external viewer:
when displaying photos, view the previous/next one in the folder (and bind this to keyboard shortcuts)
when displaying text, scroll the file with the keyboard (up/down to move one line at a time, page up/down to move by page)
Is it possible?
The viewer will generate a next/prev list of files in the same file display provided it was launched via double-click and Preferences / File Operations / Double-click on Files / Use internal picture viewer for was turned on.
(It can also be made to do that in other situations, e.g. when running it from outside of Opus, but you have to add an argument to tell it to read the directory to get the list of files.)
Space and Backspace are the default keys for next and prev image, but can be changed. You can find and edit the keys in the Customize window and most are also listed in the manual on the page about the viewer, as well as in the viewer's menus.
In the text viewer, Page Up and Page Down will go up and down a page at a time.
Thank you for the first point: I'm using this from a plugin, and I was missing the options, well documented (my bad): Show ... AUTOFILELIST LISTSIBLINGS
For the second point:
That does not work for me.
I thought it might be an option I was missing as well, so I tried from the command line:
> "C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\d8viewer.exe" Favorites.js
But same: only the mouse allows scrolling,Page Up and Page Down do nothing. Maybe I messed up my configuration?
Looks like Page Up/Down only work with the Text plugin in the preview pane, not the standalone viewer.
But the Text plugin is only really designed for the preview pane. While it does work in the standalone viewer, you have to go out of your way to send a text file to there and it's not what we really envisage people using to view text files in separate windows. There are much better text editors for that, which is what we assume most people will use.
Ok. Could you please write this as a feature for a future version ?
I use the external text view to get a glance at the file: it opens faster than my editor (Sublime Text), and can be dismissed with just the Escape key.
I think you can make it work already by removing the Page Up and Page Down hotkeys from the viewer:
The Next Picture and Previous Picture commands both have two alternative hotkeys (each) assigned to them by default. Click the hotkey control and they'll be split into separate lines. To delete the one in the edit control, right-click it and choose Remove. (To delete the other one, there's a Remove link for it.)
With those out of the way, the text viewer will handle the two keys normally, like it does in the preview pane.
It works!
Excellent, thank you very much!
