Say I have 50 jpg's in a directory. If I double click the first one at the top of the lister it will open the standalone viewer. I scroll down with the mouse about halfway through the series of images and then exit the standalone viewer. The lister will still have the first file selected, even though that was not the last image I was viewing.
What I think would be useful is if the lister had an option to follow along with the standalone viewer. If I exit the viewer on the 25th image, the lister would have the 25th image selected.
I know there is the option to "Tag" files from the standalone viewer but that is not what i'm looking for. Regardless of whether I tag an image it will still have the first file I double-clicked selected. But clearly it does setup the precedent for this feature request since the standalone viewer is interacting with the lister in this way.
This is, how i use it now, to get to some particular file, those checkbox tags. So your suggestion makes a lot of sense.
Speaking of tags, i use the full screen view a lot, including the "original size" view, to extract details for my image tagging, for example wide angle shots.
So it would also be helpful, if we could display or even edit tags in the standalone viewer.
By the way, if you just want to locate the file so you can drop it on something else, you can do that already with just the standalone viewer: Drag the viewer's window icon and drop it on anything that accepts files and it will drop the image file on the other program.
I think this is very useful feature.
Anyway, I don't use standalone viewer. I use IrfanView instead. Here is how I make DOpus select file currently viewed in IrfanView.
Open IrfanView -> preferences -> miscellaneous -> set external editors to eg d:\selectFile.exe
Use Autohotkey to create d:\selectFile.exe file with this command:
Run, "C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt.exe" /cmd GO %1%
Now when browsing files with IrfanView, press Shift+1 to use the first external editor which in this case will call dopusrt.exe and go/select to the viewed file.
[quote="daroc"]I think this is very useful feature.
Anyway, I don't use standalone viewer. I use IrfanView instead. Here is how I make DOpus select file currently viewed in IrfanView.
Open IrfanView -> preferences -> miscellaneous -> set external editors to eg d:\selectFile.exe
Use Autohotkey to create d:\selectFile.exe file with this command:
Run, "C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt.exe" /cmd GO %1%
Now when browsing files with IrfanView, press Shift+1 to use the first external editor which in this case will call dopusrt.exe and go/select to the viewed file.[/quote]
FWIW: You don't need AutoHotkey for that.
IrfanView:- Options \ Properties/Settings \ Miscellaneous \ Set external editor
Enter:
C:\Program Files\GPSoftware\Directory Opus\dopusrt.exe "/cmd GO "%1""
So Leo is there any word on this feature request being accepted??
I have had to go the Irfanview route along with using Autohotkey... Although you can bind the external editor in Irfanview without autohotkey it doesn't exit Irfanview when you hit it... It leaves irfanview running while selecting the image in Dopus...
That's not quite what I was looking for... I'm not sure why it is leaving Irfanview running, or why it doesn't have an option to exit Irfanview when launching the external editor. So I have had to define a custom Autohotkey script to accomplish this:
So now when I hit Escape in Irfanview it will launch the external editor then send escape again... closing Irfanview... This really seems like an overly complicated solution when it is just something Dopus could support naturally.
I did quite some tweaking lately to get that simulated, but "native" is still "wanted". o)
I now use:
some global hotkeys
to trigger code like this
@nodeselect
@filesonly
SetAttr META rating:0
Select Next
d:\bin\file\dopus\dopusrt.exe /cmd show_external_nodeselect
which uses dopusrt.exe
and a custom command
@nodeselect
Show
to achieve tracking of the file in the lister. It has drawbacks:
You need safe (prevent accidental use), easy accessible (not 4 qualifiers pressed) new global hotkeys, which is barely possible
You loose focus on the viewer, using some viewer-keys to rotate e.g., always needs a click first
It is slower
And you can get out of sync with the lister, if keypresses follow very rapidly. I use this to rate/process/step through images while viewing them fullscreen. I don't hit keys that fast to make it struggle, but just for the possibility of it going wrong and any processing eventually happens on the wrong file, having something like this natively is welcome.
