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Viewing photos contained in a folder
Posted: 14 May 2023 13:32
by LindaLooUK
I have 64bit Windows 11 on my PC.
If I open the regular file explorer at a folder that contains a number of photos, after opening one of the photos with the native Photos app, I can cycle through all the photos by clicking on the arrows either side of the current image.
In XYplorer the image opens in Photos but there are no arrows allowing navigation through the rest of the images.
Is there a tweak or some setting that I could deploy that might enable this feature?
Thanks folks.
Re: Viewing photos contained in a folder
Posted: 14 May 2023 13:55
by RalphM
Either use F11 to open a file in the Floating/Full Screen Preview and then scroll through the other images with arrow up/down or add a CFA definition as follows to your Open With list (CFA stands for Customized File Associations, a powerful feature of XY you should read up on in the help file)
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"Windows Photo Viewer" {:Image}>::run """%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe"" ""%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll"", ImageView_Fullscreen <curitem>";
Re: Viewing photos contained in a folder
Posted: 14 May 2023 15:55
by LindaLooUK
Thanks very much Ralph. This is very helpful: I'll look into this further.
Re: Viewing photos contained in a folder
Posted: 23 May 2023 17:16
by LindaLooUK
Sorry to bring this up again but...
Am I right in presuming that it's not possible to use the CFA feature with natively installed Windows UWP apps? I'm particularly referring to
Microsoft Photos which is located somewhere like:
C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.Windows.Photos_2023.11030.27009.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\
Thanks again.
Re: Viewing photos contained in a folder
Posted: 23 May 2023 18:43
by klownboy
LindaLooUK wrote: ↑23 May 2023 17:16
Am I right in presuming that it's not possible to use the CFA feature with natively installed Windows UWP apps? I'm particularly referring to Microsoft Photos which is located somewhere like:
You may want to review this thread here for more background.
viewtopic.php?p=210805#p210805 Microsoft Photos will not open the selected image via CFA, that's not the case with all UWP apps. CFAs do work with OnePhotoViewer, a UWP app that's probably better than Photos.
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"OnePhotoViewer|D:\Graphics\Icons\butterfly_blue.ico" png;jpg;jpeg>openwith "shell:appsFolder\48914EllipticPhenomena.OnePhotoViewer_8w313s78tpvfc!App";
The selected image will also open in Windows Photo Viewer.
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"Windows Photo Viewer|:openwith" {:Image}>::run """%SystemRoot%\System32\rundll32.exe"" ""%ProgramFiles%\Windows Photo Viewer\PhotoViewer.dll"", ImageView_Fullscreen <curitem>";
Re: Viewing photos contained in a folder
Posted: 24 May 2023 23:04
by LindaLooUK
Thanks very much for your input and for pointing me at the other thread - this is very helpful.
I've downloaded and started using OnePhotoViewer which is good BUT it doesn't appear to have the facility to straighten images so I'm looking around for something else that might fit the bill.
