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General Discussion / Re: Is ThumbsPlus still in business?

« Last post by Gary on 2024-02-17 00:02:07 »

Another thing I really like about XnViewMP is the ability to customize the GUI.  I also like that is handles video files.

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General Discussion / Re: I'm so disappointed that ThumbsPlus (Cerious) seems to be gone

« Last post by Warner_Young on 2024-02-16 19:39:58 »

Interesting. I just clicked on Philip's profile out of curiosity, and it says he was last active 2023-11-22. That's much more recent than I expected given the lack of news, activity and emails.

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General Discussion / Re: Is ThumbsPlus still in business?

« Last post by Warner_Young on 2024-02-16 12:38:45 »

I also tried digiKam. I like the UI better, but there's no automatic file tree. You have to add what's called a Collection, where each Collection is a folder and its subfolders. I think it's a tossup whether it or XnViewMP is better. I like some parts of each more than the other. XnViewMP is definitely faster when loading images, though.

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General Discussion / Re: Is ThumbsPlus still in business?

« Last post by Daan van Rooijen on 2024-02-15 15:50:04 »

FastStone Image Viewer is not a database, but it's a popular and free image browser/viewer/editor/converter. It supports all the common bitmap formats and raw formats, plus HEIC and WEBP (through codecs in Win10/11). Website: https://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

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General Discussion / Re: Is ThumbsPlus still in business?

« Last post by Gary on 2024-02-15 15:23:12 »

The closest I've found is XNView MP ( https://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ ).

The app is free for non commercial use and development continues.  I have used it on both Windows 10/11 and Fedora Linux (the program is faster on Linux!)

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General Discussion / ThumbsPlus alternatives.

« Last post by GeorgeAdata on 2024-02-14 16:29:44 »

Are there any emerging software solutions that can rival ThumbsPlus in terms of functionality and user-friendliness, providing alternative options for managing and organizing image collections?

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General Discussion / Re: I'm so disappointed that ThumbsPlus (Cerious) seems to be gone

« Last post by Warner_Young on 2024-02-12 21:47:10 »

Thanks, that helps. Although the actual problem I have right now is the source code is too old, and the Visual Studio I'm using is too new. I'm sure there's a way to make it work. It'll just take time.

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General Discussion / Re: I'm so disappointed that ThumbsPlus (Cerious) seems to be gone

« Last post by Daan van Rooijen on 2024-02-12 20:42:35 »

I've updated the archive to include a readme.txt - please download once more

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General Discussion / Re: I'm so disappointed that ThumbsPlus (Cerious) seems to be gone

« Last post by Warner_Young on 2024-02-12 20:31:30 »

Thanks, Daan. Now let's see if:
1. I have the time
2. I have the inspiration
3. and the ability

to write a plugin that can load HEIC files.
And
4. See if the source code can be built at all.

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General Discussion / Re: I'm so disappointed that ThumbsPlus (Cerious) seems to be gone

« Last post by Daan van Rooijen on 2024-02-12 20:24:57 »

Warner, I have source code to a .BMP plugin that Cerious made available in 2006, I think to help others to make their own plug-ins. Please check if you can download it:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kcrkeyby4j4zyxcqi4n3m/Cerious_ThumbsPlus_plug_bmp.zip?rlkey=79rgibsl5qlb92oxjvkpawuoh&dl=0

(note: I have updated the link because I found additional information that I have included in the archive as Readme.TXT)