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SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 4:48 pm
by Nikolay Raspopov
SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.
Copyright © Nikolay Raspopov, 2004-2012.
E-Mail: raspopov@cherubicsoft.com

Web site (English): http://code.google.com/p/sagethumbs/
Web site (Russian): http://www.cherubicsoft.com/projects/sagethumbs

Features
  • Extended thumbnail image view of Explorer folder
  • Thumbnail image in explorer context menu (right-click menu)
  • Extended info tips
  • Support 162 image formats (224 extensions) via GFL Library
  • Support additional 26 image formats via XnView plugins (if installed)
  • Send by mail support
  • One-click conversion to popular image formats support
  • Wallpaper selection support
  • Copy to clipboard support
Please read carefully the following information

As SageThumbs is a Windows Explorer context menu extension, there is no an executable file that you should launch to bring it up. To use it, just open any folder with image files in Windows Explorer, and then right-click a file you want to preview. You'll see the thumbnail immediately in the context menu.

System Requirement

* Windows XP/2003/Vista/7 or higher, 32/64-bit.
* About 1.5 Mb of disk space

Re: SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:30 pm
by helmut
Nikolay,

you silently post things here which I find very exiting and useful: There's the plug-ins for displaying SWF, HTML, and ASC files in XnView. Now I just stumbled over your SageThumbs.

Displaying a thumbnail in the context menu of MS Windows Explorer is nice and makes working with image files even more flexible. Another very nice and handy software of you!

I'm not quite clear regarding the licencing:
SageThumbs is under GPL, that means freeware for everyone, but it uses GLF SDK of Pierre. Perhaps Pierre or you can clarify this and reply here.

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:08 pm
by ijustdiscoveredthiswonder
thanks a lot Nikolay!!! :D

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:25 pm
by Aokromes
Hey, an small feature request, how about Thumbnail size config? :)

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:13 am
by ckit
Do NOT use SageThumbs, it does not uninstall properly leaving lots of registry entries to a program that doesn't exist anymore. After uninstalling SageThumbs I couldn't the Preview feature in xplorer2 to view my pictures anymore!

Now I have to manually clean the registry out... :-(

IC now, the developer replaced this entry
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}
{7376D660-C583-11d0-A3A5-00C04FD706EC}
with
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg\ShellEx\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}
{with his own}

Don't mess with Microsoft's default code!!!!!

and my PNG's are screwed up too, omfg look at the damage....

Note: This post has been edited by a moderator.

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:41 am
by helmut
Nikolay, Pierre,
ckit wrote:Do NOT use SageThumbs, it does not uninstall properly leaving lots of registry entries to a program that doesn't exist anymore. After uninstalling SageThumbs I couldn't the Preview feature in xplorer2 to view my pictures anymore!
...
could you please clarify? If it is true what ckit writes, this should be fixed. Please also let us know about the impact/damage people could experience when using/uninstalling.

Greetings,

Helmut

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 7:59 am
by ckit
Easy just install xplorer2 lite (freeware) - http://netez.com/xplorer2/ and try to use it's Preview feature for images, you can't!! It's taken me 30mins to fix this and I'm still going replacing one entry after another... sigh easier to format and start over.

Also can Nikolay Raspopov, list the added/modified registry keys that this program writes.

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 12:55 pm
by Nikolay Raspopov
ckit wrote:Also can Nikolay Raspopov, list the added/modified registry keys that this program writes.
Doh... completely forgot about this small feature... :-(

HKCR\.ext\ShellExt\{BB2E617C-0920-11d1-9A0B-00C04FC2D6C1}
where ".ext" is all extensions supported by GFL + XnView.

To restore original handlers type in Run dialog "regsvr32 shimgvw.dll" and hit ENTER.

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:03 pm
by helmut
Nikolay,

just noticed by accident that you've edited and changed your initial post.

Very good that you've fixed the uninstallation that quickly and now provide version 1.0.0.4.

@ckit: I know you're a burnt child now, perhaps you could still give the new version 1.0.0.4 a try.

Regards,

Helmut

Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 1:16 am
by ckit
Nikolay Raspopov wrote: To restore original handlers type in Run dialog "regsvr32 shimgvw.dll" and hit ENTER.
Thanks, thats what I was really after to repair this :)

Re: SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.

Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:06 am
by ckit
Nikolay Raspopov wrote:SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.
(Uses GFL + XnView plugins)

Features:
* Thumbnail image view of explorer folder
* Thumbnail image in explorer context menu
* Info tips
* Support 119 image formats via GFL Library 2.01
* Support additional 36 image formats via XnView 1.70 plugins (if installed)

SageThumbs_1.0.0.4.exe (478kB)
Mozilla (Firefox as well) and Getright users will have to download this through Internet Explorer with Getright completely disabled. I've tried playing with Getright's refer values and ignoring servers options none of which seem to work :(

Re: SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.

Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 4:09 pm
by ijustdiscoveredthiswonder
ckit wrote:
Nikolay Raspopov wrote:SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.
(Uses GFL + XnView plugins)

Features:
* Thumbnail image view of explorer folder
* Thumbnail image in explorer context menu
* Info tips
* Support 119 image formats via GFL Library 2.01
* Support additional 36 image formats via XnView 1.70 plugins (if installed)

SageThumbs_1.0.0.4.exe (478kB)
Mozilla (Firefox as well) and Getright users will have to download this through Internet Explorer with Getright completely disabled. I've tried playing with Getright's refer values and ignoring servers options none of which seem to work :(
i have mozilla firefox 0.9.2 and i downloaded it correcly whitout any problem

Re: SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 5:45 am
by ckit
i have mozilla firefox 0.9.2 and i downloaded it correcly whitout any problem
Do you have Getright installed with the Getright Mozilla plugin as well? Without Getright and it's plugin, Firefox probably could download it fine. I'm using Getright v5.1 and Firefox 0.9.1 (with the special security patch that 0.9.2 has installed)

Re: SageThumbs - Thumbnail image shell extension.

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:18 am
by ijustdiscoveredthiswonder
ckit wrote:
i have mozilla firefox 0.9.2 and i downloaded it correcly whitout any problem
Do you have Getright installed with the Getright Mozilla plugin as well? Without Getright and it's plugin, Firefox probably could download it fine. I'm using Getright v5.1 and Firefox 0.9.1 (with the special security patch that 0.9.2 has installed)
i don't have getright, when i download the plugin it appears a page saying redirecting or something similar i used getright in the past and it should handle such situations, maybe setting browser identification to "IE6" into getright may help.

hope this may help! ;)

Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2004 11:34 am
by ckit
Hmm, yes you're right setting my HTTP User Agent to "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)" allows me to download with Getright fine now!

A huge thank you 8)