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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Annimated gifs: Difference between opening and "spacing"

« on: 2014-10-15 03:46:47 »

Hi,

If I click on an animated gif, it starts the animation. If I click on it, the animation stops, and if I use alt+pageUp/Down I can move forward/backward in the animation, and if I hit space, I move to the next picture. I can also use Edit->Split Pages. All very nice.

But if I hit space without first stopping the animation, nothing happens! I do not move to the next picture.

And if I have stopped the animation, there is no way to start it again, without reopening the file.

If I have a folder with a mix of various types pictuers, click on a jpg and then hit space to move to an animated gif, I end up on the last picture in the animation, instead of starting the animation.

I recently removed V7, so I cannot remember how it worked then.

To sum up, this is what I want.

1. I would like to be able to move to the next picture by hitting space without first stopping the animation.

2. I would like to be able to start the animation again by clicking on it again.

3. I would like to see the animation instead of the last picture when "spacing to" an animated gif.

Do other people prefer the current behavior, or is this a bug?

Helmer Aslaksen

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Two Thumbs.tpdb8 files?

« on: 2014-10-10 05:36:46 »

I just realized that I have two Thumbs.tpdb8 files, in C:\Users\All Users\ThumbsPlus and C:\ProgramData\ThumbsPlus. Are they really the same?

Helmer Aslaksen

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / TP9SP2 looks promising! (But still some issues.)

« on: 2014-09-27 04:02:28 »

HI everybody,

Thanks to Daan, I've now sorted out my black margins problems. It turns out that I hadn't explored all the settings, but I do think that the default was strange. By the way, when I set it to 1x1, TP changes it to 80x64, but I can live with that.)

I also see that several other problems have been fixed. TP9SP2 does not reset my Thumbs9.typ file when I update. Earlier versions of TP8&9 cut that file after 200 lines. Will have to test if it still does that, but now I don't have to fiddle with that file every time I update.

In the past, when I added file types, I had to first select the row, before I could click on the + to expand. This has now been fixed! (This was also a problem with my beloved V7, so it is a real step forward!)

However, I still have some comments, questions and problems.

1. TP9 does not store TWAIN settings. This is super annoying! How hard can this be to fix?

2. Numeric keyboard shortcuts for sort order are gone except for Alt-Backspace. I use those a lot. Yes, there are buttons to click, but I'm a keyboard shortcuts kind of guy.

3. When I view videos, there is a capture current frame button. Where is it supposed to save the caps? And what does split frame mean?

4. If I click on a video, it opens up nicely. However, I'm not able to move to the next by hitting space. (This worked in V7). If I have a mix of pictures and videos, click on a picture and then space forward to a video, it comes up in a different player, which does not have any control slides or buttons! This one allows me to space forward, though.

I realize that 3 and 4 could have something to do with DirectShow and other stuff I have installed, but it did work in TP7.

Thanks!

Helmer Aslaksen

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / What is happening with TP?

« on: 2014-07-30 05:48:40 »

This may sound like a stupid question, but what exactly is happening with TP? A lot of us keep about things that worked in TP7 but that no longer works. As far as I can tell, hardly any of those things get fixed. And some that get fixed are broken again new later builds. At the same time Cerious keep putting out new versions. What is the point of the new releases? There seem to be some new Facebook features that people on this forum at least don't seem to use. Are there some great new features that Cerious think is more important than fixing the things that we think are important?

It seems to me that Cerious and this forum are on different tracks, which is a pity, since a lot of us really love TP.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Black margins on tall pictures

« on: 2014-06-18 03:39:51 »

Hi,

First of all, I must say that for the first time in a long while I have actually seen an improvment in TP (meaning, making it closer to V7!). It seems that Thumbs9.typ is not overwritten when I upgrade.

In the past I had a lot of problem with balck margins on tall pictures. It seemed to improve, but in the latest release (3938)it has gotten worse. Now a lot of my pictures have balck margins.

Helmer

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Thumbs9.typ cut after 200 lines and TWAIN setup lost

« on: 2014-02-17 17:28:39 »

Hi,

I've been posting about these two issues for almost every release for years now. Will you ever fix this?

For more details see my two threads.

Thanks!

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Twain setup does not remember

« on: 2013-07-31 03:04:10 »

I have a scanner that I use with WiFi. Every time I open TPV9, I have to go to Twain Setup and reselect it. This worked under V7, but not under V8 or V9.

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Thumbs9.typ is cut after 200 lines - Adding file types

« on: 2013-06-18 06:19:10 »

Hi,

In one of the deleted messages there was a discussion about how to add file types. Some of the file types I had added were removed every time I updated TP. Somebody (I forgot who, sorry!) told me to just add the lines to Thumbs9.typ. This only worked partially, and there was a discussion about sorting the lines and deleting some lines.

Now I think I have found the bug. V9 seems to only allow 200 lines in Thumbs9.typ! Anything beyond that is simply ignored. So I just add the lines I want, and then I remove lines I don't need until I get under 200.

Shouldn't be too hard to fix this bug?

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ThumbsPlus v7-v9 Questions / Problem with thumbnails for m4v files

« on: 2011-06-10 08:47:53 »

Hi,

I'm having some problems making thumbnails for m4v files in V7. I've added it as filetyp mpeg, and I have the necessary codecs on my Windows 7 system, so that I get thumbnails in Explorer. If I open the file and hit F3, I get a thumbnail, but not if I hit F3 without opening the file.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!