ThumbnailViewerGallery

[klownboy]

Hey Don, I'm glad you incorporated "Zoom to Fill" in the way you did (i.e., by adding the 'z 'to the thumbnail size and thereby keeping the zoom to fill thumbnails all within the same thumbnails folder). I thought it may be more work for you, but in the end that may pay off as opposed to having an independent folder for "Zoom to Fill" thumbs.

Now we just need some way to toggle the settings for padding, style, and border (as a group along with Z2F) such that we can truly flip back and forth from normal thumbnail configuration to gallery style thumbs with no padding, Zoom to Fill, plain style, and no captions.

I was glad to see that my ThumbnailMaintenance script, though I need to do more testing, still seems to work alright showing something like this in the inputselect dialog box...where the user picks which caches to rebuild or delete.

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H:\Pictures\Cabo 2012\ ● 240x240 ● 1/13/2016 6:57 AM ● 23f460c75aa6700c6418391c41fc399f ● 23.40 MB
H:\Pictures\Cabo 2012\ ● 240x240z ● 2/2/2016 12:37 PM ● a9377b28069630d526bf7287576a5144 ● 31.64 MB

[admin]

I could add a scripting command, sth like:

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ThumbsStyle BorderStyle, Padding, ShowCaption, ZoomToFill

[TheQwerty]

I could add a scripting command, sth like:

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ThumbsStyle BorderStyle, Padding, ShowCaption, ZoomToFill

Might it make sense for this to be similar to the setlayout command?

The advantage to both is that you can change which options are supported without updating the command's syntax or documentation.

[klownboy]

A scripting command would certainly do it for me and that would be similar in some ways to a setlayout change. It would be simply changing the settings for those thumbnail attributes on the fly. At some point down the road though depending how this works out you might want to have it available for non-scripters as part on the interface.

It looks like we are both comparing to setlayout.

[admin]

Not sure. Needs a little more thinking time. Maybe I will add a simple toggle to the GUI: "gallery mode" or so.

BTW, I'm not sure how popular a gallery mode is. I'm not even sure if "gallery mode" is the name for this. And is zero padding + zoom to fill really what everybody wants? Probably not...

[klownboy]

Everyone will probably have different opinions on something like this...no one being right or wrong. That's why maybe the SC ThumbsStyle is the way to go at least initially. On the so-called Gallery Mode, I like seeing along with Z2F, no padding, no captions, plain style "0". Which is essentially the opposite of how I'd have thumbs set for normal viewing. Though I typically use "plain" style for normal as well, many others like a border.

After the SC incorporation, a possible interface incorporation might be to have a group of independent settings for the "Gallery Mode" or just an "Alternate Thumbnail Mode". It would be under the thumbnail section where the user could establish an alternate thumbnail settings however they elect. So when you toggle the Alternate Thumb Mode it would simply toggle the settings from the normal settings to the alternate whatever they are. Edit : When you think about it, this could be a feature that many other file managers do not have - the capability to have an alternate thumbnail style for any particular folder.

[admin]

Searched the net, but could not find any evidence that people a craving for something like a "gallery mode". I will forget about it for now.

[klownboy]

When I asked for a way to toggle the Zoom to Fill over in the wishes thread, I had honestly totally forgotten about your thought of having an SC thumbstyle mentioned in this thread. That would solve my issue getting the Thumbnail Maintenance script fully functional with the Zoom to Fill changes in the thumbnail cache along with making a so-called gallery mode via scripting. Thanks.