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« on: 2014-01-22 21:50:53 »
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> If you want, try this to see if the status bar will display:
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> 1. close ThumbsPlus
> 2. use file manager to open folder where your configuration files are located
> 3. rename "Thumbs9.config" to "Thumbs9.config.mine"
> 4. rename "Thumbs9.ini" to "Thumbs9.ini.mine"
> 5. start ThumbsPlus - note all of your settings will be gone but hopefully you will see the status bar. if so, we know the issue is in your config files.
> 6. close ThumbsPlus
> 7. use file manager to open folder where your configuration files are located
> 8. delete "Thumbs9.config" and "Thumbs9.ini"
> 9. rename "Thumbs9.config.mine" to "Thumbs9.config"
> 10. rename "Thumbs9.ini.mine" to "Thumbs9.ini"
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> Let me know what you find.
The statues bar is back. I didn't do what you said. I did this.
1. close ThumbsPlus
2. use file manager to open folder where your configuration files are located
3. rename "Thumbs9.config" to "Thumbs9.config.mine"
4. rename "Thumbs9.ini" to "Thumbs9.ini.mine"
5. start ThumbsPlus - note all of your settings will be gone but hopefully you will see the status bar. if so, we know the issue is in your config files.
The status bar was back. So I opened Thumbs9.ini and Thumbs9.ini.mine side by side and compared them. The things lacking in Thumbs9.config were settings.
I tried to do the same with the two config files, but it was impossible to see them side by side. So I gave up on that.
So, I fired up Thumbs 9, and rebuilt my settings and menu bar. That's all okay now.
However, landscape oriented files that exceed my monitor's horizontal resolution, and files that match the screen horiz resolution and the vertical res is greater than 2:3 aspect STILL produce that bounding box. And I don't think its a memory issue, because if the orientation of the file is Portrait, they display correctly -- no bounding box. That damn bounding box is there only if the file is Landscape oriented.
A file that is 1280 horizontally, at the 2:3 aspect ratio the vertical resolution comes to 853.33. Files that are 1280 x 853 produce this bounding box. Files that are 1280 x 851 do not display the bounding box.
Images out of my camera are 1600 x 1024. 1024/1600 = .6400, which is less than 2:3 aspect ratio. These display the bounding box when fitted to screen.
Do the same calculation for images that are 1280 x 851. 851/1280 = .6648. These display correctly, and the filesize is larger (bmps or jpgs, given that the jpgs have the same compression ratio).
So, now I have the status bar back, but I still get that damn bounding box. This is getting old! It has nothing to do with file size. A BMP turned into a PSD with many layers still works in landscape mode IF the image's dimensions are 1280 x 851 (This is not 3:2 aspect), but that bounding box comes up again when the file is 3:2 aspect with dimensions of 1280 x 853.
What next?