Lister bitmap-viewer config

[Sam_Zen]

During the testing of this thread about showing a crappy
JPEG file with Lister, I noticed that the presence of a graphic plugin like Imagine, overrules the option :
"Use XnView/IrfanView to load graphics other than BMP" if enabled.

This seems quite logical, but it shows that in fact this "..other than BMP" -option is neutralized.
So why not grey out this option, as soon as there is a graphical plugin present ?

[StatusQuo]

Well, the plugin could support let's say 5 formats. The others are (or should be) still viewed with the viewer entered there.

Maybe it should be extended to "...other than BMP and installed plugins"? The help is talking about "...other than BMP" only, too.

[Flint]

So why not grey out this option, as soon as there is a graphical plugin present ?

1. How do you think to detect if the plugin is a graphical one?
2. How to ensure that the plugin overrides really all the image types supported by IV/XV?
3. The plugins do not always take precedence over the internal Lister mechanisms (detect-string should contain MULTIMEDIA for that, if I'm not mistaken).

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, indeed the string MULTIMEDIA gives plugins precedence over Irfanview.

[Clo]

2ghisler(Author)

Good evening,

• I have tested the sample too, and indeed got the same issues…

Yes, indeed the string MULTIMEDIA gives plugins precedence over Irfanview.

• Irfan¦XnView are certainly much more performant¦perfected than the most image-plugins…
- So, could that precedence be inverted, even optionally later ?

 VG
Claude
Clo

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, you can of course edit the define lines for these plugins in wincmd.ini. Example:

Old:

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27_detect="MULTIMEDIA & (EXT="JPG" | EXT="JPEG" | EXT="JIF" | EXT="JFIF" | EXT="J" | EXT="JPE" | EXT="TGA" | EXT="TARGA" | EXT="PIX" | EXT="BPX" | EXT="IVB" | EXT="TIF" | EXT="TIM" | EXT="TIFF" | EXT="BMP" |EXT="RLE" | EXT="VGA" | EXT="RL4" | EXT="RL8" | EXT="SYS" | EXT="PNG" | EXT="IFF" | EXT="BLK" | EXT="GIF" | EXT="GIFF" | EXT="PCX" | EXT="PCC" | EXT="DCX" | EXT="PIC" | EXT="PICT" | EXT="PICT2" | EXT="PCT" | EXT="PSD" | EXT="PBM" | EXT="RPBM" | EXT="PPMA" | EXT="PGM" | EXT="RPGM" | EXT="PPM" | EXT="RPPM" | EXT="PNM" | EXT="RPNM" | EXT="PBM" | EXT="RPBM" | EXT="PGM" | EXT="RPGM" | EXT="PPM" | EXT="RPPM" | EXT="XBM" | EXT="BM" | EXT="XPM" | EXT="PM" | EXT="EPI")"

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27_detect="EXT="JPG" | EXT="JPEG" | EXT="JIF" | EXT="JFIF" | EXT="J" | EXT="JPE" | EXT="TGA" | EXT="TARGA" | EXT="PIX" | EXT="BPX" | EXT="IVB" | EXT="TIF" | EXT="TIM" | EXT="TIFF" | EXT="BMP" |EXT="RLE" | EXT="VGA" | EXT="RL4" | EXT="RL8" | EXT="SYS" | EXT="PNG" | EXT="IFF" | EXT="BLK" | EXT="GIF" | EXT="GIFF" | EXT="PCX" | EXT="PCC" | EXT="DCX" | EXT="PIC" | EXT="PICT" | EXT="PICT2" | EXT="PCT" | EXT="PSD" | EXT="PBM" | EXT="RPBM" | EXT="PPMA" | EXT="PGM" | EXT="RPGM" | EXT="PPM" | EXT="RPPM" | EXT="PNM" | EXT="RPNM" | EXT="PBM" | EXT="RPBM" | EXT="PGM" | EXT="RPGM" | EXT="PPM" | EXT="RPPM" | EXT="XBM" | EXT="BM" | EXT="XPM" | EXT="PM" | EXT="EPI""

You can also leave out extensions which you never want to handle with this plugin.