Thumbnail creation locks up the app

[Frizzle]

Hello!

When I switch to a folder that has say a lot of videos in it and the view is in thumbnail view (by accident), then the app completely locks up while it's reading those files and generating thumbnails. For some reason it really makes my blood boil when it does that. It would be great if the app could be made to be responsive to user input while it's generating thumbnails.

Thanks!

[m48tx]

I experience the same thing when generating image thumbnails. The thumbnails are initially displayed as they are created, then the thumbnail display stops and XYP goes non-responsive displaying the hourglass cursor and (Not Responding) in the title bar. The thumbnails continue being created but XYP is non-responsive until the create is finished. This situation can often be forced by opening another program whose screen opens on top of XYP.

[admin]

1) Tick this: Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Show cached thumbnails only

2) You can always press ESC to immediately stop the thumbnails creation.

[m48tx]

Thanks for the feedback, but regardless this is my experience (I realize this is a trivial matter in the scheme of things) ...

I select the starting image folder in the folder list then run this script to step thru subfolders to create thumbnails for any newly added folders/files ...

$savepath = "<curpath>"; // save the starting path
#311; // generate path list via branch view (configuration must be set to display folders only in branch view)
#250; // select all paths in the list
foreach($item, <get selecteditemspathnames>, <crlf>) {
goto "$item"; #306;
} // for each item in the path list, go to the path then generate thumbnails #1 (configuration must be set to create all thumbnails at once)
goto "$savepath"; // once finished with path list, return to the starting path
#1010; // collapse the starting path tree
#304; // return to list view

I started using this script with version 23.90 and it ran flawlessly every time (ESC would stop the script at any point), even if I opened another program that overlaid XYP window. Beginning at some version shortly after 23.90, things changed. This is what happens now ...

I start the script and XYP will stop responding (but script continues to run) at some random point in the process and the screen appears as ...

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If I press the ESC key, this is what happens as XYP is 100% non-responsive until the script process is complete ...

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[admin]

There are just too many factors at play to test this here, but I'm not aware of any changes that would explain why ESC isn't working for you.

[Frizzle]

1) Tick this: Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Show cached thumbnails only

Okay, but quite regularly I would like to open a new folder and create thumbnails. I would have to change this setting each time.

2) You can always press ESC to immediately stop the thumbnails creation.

Just tried this and the program did not respond to the ESC key.

[admin]

Well, you said: "When I switch to a folder that has say a lot of videos in it and the view is in thumbnail view (by accident)...

If ESC does not work the first time, press it again.

[Frizzle]

I can press it a million times, the program doesn't respond. But you're clearly not interested in this, so I guess I'll have to live with it...