Main Window

This section wants to give an overview about every single component as well as the basic functionality of the program Image Viewer’s main window. But before continue reading it seems to be useful to get a first impression about the program’s main window. Therefore, please see following figure.

Main window of program Image Viewer.

As shown in figure above the main window of program Image Viewer consists of all in all three different areas. At the main window’s left side a kind of directory tree is shown. This tree can be used to navigate through all available folders. The right–upper part of the program’s main window is used to display the currently selected picture. And last but not least, an input box can be found below the picture display. This input box might be used to provide additional information about currently shown picture.

As mentioned above the directory tree is used for navigation. If an interesting picture could be found inside the navigator it will be shown in the picture display as soon as it is chosen, for example by selecting it with the mouse.

Of course it is also possible to change the size of all areas. For this purpose it is necessary to use the splitter either between navigator and picture area, or between picture display and notes field. To do this simply grab the splitter and move the mouse with pressed left mouse button until the width or the height is adjusted accordingly.

Other components that are provided by program Image Viewer are the Toolbar at the main window’s top as well as the status bar at the main window’s bottom. The status bar shows additional information about the element currently selected. Such information are for example the creation date and size of a picture item or the physical path of a folder item. An exception is folder Favorites because this folder is an internal folder and has nothing to do with the Favorites of Windows.

Another feature that should be mentioned is that program Image Viewer is completely controllable via the Keyboard. This makes its usage quite easy. More about this feature can be found inside the respective subsection.

Furthermore, some settings of the program’s main window are persistent and are stored inside the program’s configuration file. This ensures a restart of the program with the same “look & feel” as it was last closed. Of course these settings can be undone. For more information about this feature please refer to subsection Factory Settings in section Settings.

Navigator

As shown in figure above the Navigator provides all in all five main nodes. Please note the names of these nodes are taken from the underlying operating system. This means in turn they can vary depending on a particular operating system. For example the node with label My Pictures might be named Eigene Bilder under a German–speaking operating system.

The Navigator also supports a context menu that can be used to access additional functionality. But be aware the items within this context menu vary depending on currently selected note type. Additional information about the Navigator’s context menu can be found inside the related section.

Picture Display

The picture display also provides a context menu. This context menu can be used for example to directly access some of its basic functions. But this context menu does not provide that much functionality as available for Navigator’s context menu. More information about the picture display’s context menu is available within the respective section.

Notes Field

As mentioned above, the area below the picture display is used to provide the currently visible picture with notes or additional information. Such notes could be ‘this picture was taken during my last vacation’. Be aware, these additional notes strictly depend on a particular picture! In more detail, all notes assigned to a particular picture are put into a separate file. This file is stored into the same directory where the belonging picture is located. Further, those files will have the same name as the picture itself but using the file extension .RTF. The file format RTF means Rich Text Format, a well–known file format, which is able to manage formatted text. Such files can be opened and edited with Word for example, or other word processing applications.

All above mentioned files are managed by the notes box fully automated. Therefore, take a note that sometimes picture–related information cannot be saved automatically. In such a case firstly check the access rights for the picture’s parent directory. If there is no write protection set for the parent directory then the program has a bug. In such a case write an email and blame the author. ☺

Slideshow

A special feature of program Image Viewer is its integrated slideshow. With this slideshow it becomes for example possible to automatically play all pictures of a particular folder. Of course the slideshow also provides its own context menu. This context menu can be used to manage the behavior of a running slideshow. More Information about the slideshow’s context menu can be found inside the related section.

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