double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

Post by klownboy »

When in a thumbnail view in XYplorer, you can use Mouse Down Blowup (MDBU). Refer to Tools > Configuration > Mouse Down Blowup. There's no need to double-click. You can set your normal (single) left-click on a thumbnail to blow-up the image and have it stay up while the left mouse button is being held down. You can set the right mouse button single click to blow up the image and have it stay up without holding down the mouse button.

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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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klownboy wrote: 28 Sep 2025 16:34 When in a thumbnail view in XYplorer, you can use Mouse Down Blowup (MDBU). Refer to Tools > Configuration > Mouse Down Blowup. There's no need to double-click. You can set your normal (single) left-click on a thumbnail to blow-up the image and have it stay up while the left mouse button is being held down. You can set the right mouse button single click to blow up the image and have it stay up without holding down the mouse button.
Either the translation isn't good or you don't want to understand what I'm saying. I know the MDBU function perfectly and that's NOT what I want.

Please reply only if you can help me, not by suggesting I do things you like... thanks!

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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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I think you've done enough to discourage anyone from helping you further. Good luck!

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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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FlyAway wrote: 28 Sep 2025 19:48
klownboy wrote: 28 Sep 2025 16:34 When in a thumbnail view in XYplorer, you can use Mouse Down Blowup (MDBU). Refer to Tools > Configuration > Mouse Down Blowup. There's no need to double-click. You can set your normal (single) left-click on a thumbnail to blow-up the image and have it stay up while the left mouse button is being held down. You can set the right mouse button single click to blow up the image and have it stay up without holding down the mouse button.
Either the translation isn't good or you don't want to understand what I'm saying. I know the MDBU function perfectly and that's NOT what I want.

Please reply only if you can help me, not by suggesting I do things you like... thanks!
Floating Preview currently has no double-click event, that's better advice, or use AutoHotkey. . .
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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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admin wrote: 28 Sep 2025 20:00 I think you've done enough to discourage anyone from helping you further. Good luck!
I'm a polite person, and when someone kindly asks if a feature exists and you're told, "Instead of trying to make XYplorer behave like some other program, you should be learning and exploring XY's features to see how much better it is at everything concerning thumbnails and viewing photos," it means you're dealing with people so arrogant as to believe that people should adapt to programs and not that the program should adapt to people's needs. I have no expectations, not that the program should do what I want, nor that you should be an admin ready to back up your friends. If there are kind and competent people, let them answer me with what I ask and not with what they would like me to do.

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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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Norn wrote: 28 Sep 2025 22:27
FlyAway wrote: 28 Sep 2025 19:48
klownboy wrote: 28 Sep 2025 16:34 When in a thumbnail view in XYplorer, you can use Mouse Down Blowup (MDBU). Refer to Tools > Configuration > Mouse Down Blowup. There's no need to double-click. You can set your normal (single) left-click on a thumbnail to blow-up the image and have it stay up while the left mouse button is being held down. You can set the right mouse button single click to blow up the image and have it stay up without holding down the mouse button.
Either the translation isn't good or you don't want to understand what I'm saying. I know the MDBU function perfectly and that's NOT what I want.

Please reply only if you can help me, not by suggesting I do things you like... thanks!
Floating Preview currently has no double-click event, that's better advice, or use AutoHotkey. . .
Thank you! All it took was an HONEST answer, and not those who try to make you feel like you're wrong, to not admit that it's the program that doesn't do what almost all image viewers (because that's one of XYplorer's features) do. Thank you so much :)

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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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Wow FlyAway, you're calling me both arrogant and disHONEST. That's the thanks I get for trying to be helpful. What a world we live in. I think you should go back and reread YOUR posts and then honestly tell me they are abundantly clear as to what you wanted (i.e., double-clicking a file in Windows Explorer and having it open in XYplorer full screen or was it ever clear you're double-clicking a filename in a list versus double clicking photos or thumbnails).

When a user post a question, we have no way of knowing the XYplorer knowledge level of that individual. So some replies may be elementary and some way above their knowledge level. I was not trying to push my way of using XYPlorer on you. As a matter of fact, I do not use XY's thumbnail and MDBU the way I described. I use an AHK to activate a "space" bar hotkey such that when I hover over a thumbnail and hit "space", the image is displayed by my external viewer, Image Eye. The "space" hotkey is disable automatically upon inactivity. A single left mouse click on the thumbnail also brings up the image in Image Eye. My mouse right-button click does use MDBU.

Well, that's the first time I was ever called arrogant in my nearly 75 years. Thanks again.

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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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I do that in XYPlorer, and have done since the beginning
I know of no other way.

My images are opened with ACDSee from XYplorer
I click on a thumbnail, and it opens to full size
I can then scroll to next adjancent images at full size using the wheel mouse

You have 3 sizes you can set within XYP for your thumnail sizes
My small sizes will have 60 images in 1 pane
and my Large thumbnails at 12 images per pane

I am dealing with 60 - 100 new images avery day.

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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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klownboy wrote: 29 Sep 2025 01:02 Wow FlyAway, you're calling me both arrogant and disHONEST. That's the thanks I get for trying to be helpful. What a world we live in. I think you should go back and reread YOUR posts and then honestly tell me they are abundantly clear as to what you wanted (i.e., double-clicking a file in Windows Explorer and having it open in XYplorer full screen or was it ever clear you're double-clicking a filename in a list versus double clicking photos or thumbnails).

When a user post a question, we have no way of knowing the XYplorer knowledge level of that individual. So some replies may be elementary and some way above their knowledge level. I was not trying to push my way of using XYPlorer on you. As a matter of fact, I do not use XY's thumbnail and MDBU the way I described. I use an AHK to activate a "space" bar hotkey such that when I hover over a thumbnail and hit "space", the image is displayed by my external viewer, Image Eye. The "space" hotkey is disable automatically upon inactivity. A single left mouse click on the thumbnail also brings up the image in Image Eye. My mouse right-button click does use MDBU.

Well, that's the first time I was ever called arrogant in my nearly 75 years. Thanks again.
What I said is clear: I asked for help with a feature, and you arrogantly told me I had to study the program to understand how fantastic it was. And I can understand that you have a photo of XYplorer on your nightstand and kiss it every morning, but OUTSIDE HERE, there are people who have their own needs, and if they ask for help with a certain feature, they're told whether it's available or not.
I appreciate your willingness to help, but I recommend you help in another way. Anyone who doesn't understand how fantastic XYplorer is isn't necessarily stupid, and those who have been members for a long time shouldn't be defended simply for their long-standing presence, but for the value they bring to the forum.
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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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rod222 wrote: 29 Sep 2025 04:13 I do that in XYPlorer, and have done since the beginning
I know of no other way.

My images are opened with ACDSee from XYplorer
I click on a thumbnail, and it opens to full size
I can then scroll to next adjancent images at full size using the wheel mouse

You have 3 sizes you can set within XYP for your thumnail sizes
My small sizes will have 60 images in 1 pane
and my Large thumbnails at 12 images per pane

I am dealing with 60 - 100 new images avery day.
Well, if you use ACDSEE to open them, obviously you'll have no problems :) I wrote that I was looking for a program that does everything in one, and I think (but I might be wrong) that a SERIOUS file explorer (so not the MS one) should have a built-in photo and video viewer. And I bothered you because I know about the existence of MDBU, which has a function for enlarging images, and that this feature is therefore already implemented, and I didn't think I was asking for complicated things or that would spark a discussion.
They kindly replied that there was a string that could activate the maximized image function, and that's a great thing. I then asked if I could double-click on the photo to return to thumbnail view. Nothing bizarre I think, since that's what all pictureviews do... of course if someone asks for information on such a banal function and the admin even intervenes to reprimand me, well, maybe they're taking advantage of the fact that I don't speak English well and I'm the last to arrive and then a bit of healthy bullying on the idiot who asks for something that isn't contemplated and that it's "better not to ask" is willingly done ^_^ I'm joking, peace and love to everyone, especially in these complicated times

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and those who haven't been members for a long time shouldn't be defended simply for their long-standing presence, but for the value they bring to the forum
Oh and you with a 6 year membership here has contributed nothing to the forum^^
A bit sick about this topic here...
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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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FlyAway wrote: 29 Sep 2025 17:17 I think (but I might be wrong) that a SERIOUS file explorer (so not the MS one) should have a built-in photo and video viewer.
Personally I think you're wrong. Why add bloat to a great file explorer when it has options that allow you to open the viewer of your choice with a simple click or two?

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Re: double-click on a pic, opening the image in full screen?

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I agree with Phred
My images open as an ACDSee image, but it is within XYPlorer
It is just instantaneous and seamless.

Not sure why I persevere with ACDSee, it can be persnickety
I think it has tiny perks, that others don't have, like "convert" (gifs to Jpg) etc

Same as I use an adjunct software "stampfix"
within XYplorer, I just dump multiple images from XYPlorer into it
it recognises, the image , auto deskews, and sets auto widths around the thumbnail

I can dump a page of 40 images, it will recognise all, select as individuals and deskew etc.

XYPlorer has changed my life in respect to my hobby, I use it every day in thousands of ways.

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