processor hungry

[Floor Anthoni]

Being sick of Windows Explore, tried XnView Alpha v0.12. Very smooth until one works with it. I have a folder with 7200 images and growing. XnView takes hours to make a thumbnail index... okay.
1) I wish to tell it where to store this index (and all other indexes), if not in the folder itself. This is for making proper backups of photos and thumbnails.

2) Function key 3 takes me to my photo editor PhotoPaint (Corel) ... okay. But then XnView hogs the processor for minutes at over 95%, making the picture editing very slow and impracticable. This is a serious handicap, particularly since XnView has no business to do at this time. It then jumps the preview window to the end of the file, rather than leaving it where it left off, with the file being worked on, high-lighted. This makes XnView utterly useless, when working with it rather than just for looking.

3) the thumbnail and file info of the modified file are not updated after editing... may be difficult to detect

4) Refresh should work on the highlighted file, or highlighted group of files, only.... quick

5) a minor wish but important, to have a button to turn an image 180 degrees ... course always lossless.

Otherwise, great effort and very smooth for an Alpha version. Keep it up. Looking forward to next version.

[xnview]

Being sick of Windows Explore, tried XnView Alpha v0.12. Very smooth until one works with it. I have a folder with 7200 images and growing. XnView takes hours to make a thumbnail index... okay.

hours?? Jpeg? Do you have same delay with XnView 1.96.1?

1) I wish to tell it where to store this index (and all other indexes), if not in the folder itself. This is for making proper backups of photos and thumbnails.

You can in option/Cache

2) Function key 3 takes me to my photo editor PhotoPaint (Corel) ... okay. But then XnView hogs the processor for minutes at over 95%, making the picture editing very slow and impracticable. This is a serious handicap, particularly since XnView has no business to do at this time. It then jumps the preview window to the end of the file, rather than leaving it where it left off, with the file being worked on, high-lighted. This makes XnView utterly useless, when working with it rather than just for looking.

Perhaps a problem of memory?