Requested tabbed view? DDS?

[dejawolf]

irfanview rocks! its fast, simple, and stable.
all i'm really missing, is the ability to view DDS files, and a tabbed image view, with the ability to save a session. i usually use irfanview for reference images when working in 3ds max with various models, and i'd love to have all the images i have open in a tabbed UI, instead of in a giant hurdle of images at the explorer bar. and since i work over several days usually, having a saved sessions would save me from having to browse, find and reopen the images every time i restart the computer.
i don't really care for Iviews movie-opening tendencies though.
it slows down the whole browsing process having movies and images in the same reference folder, and i suddenly stumble on a movie, where Iview will be stuck for 5-6 seconds, before showing me a blank image with sound.

[Skippybox]

irfanview rocks! its fast, simple, and stable.
all i'm really missing, is the ability to view DDS files, and a tabbed image view, with the ability to save a session.

IrfanView can open DDS files with a plugin.

i usually use irfanview for reference images when working in 3ds max with various models, and i'd love to have all the images i have open in a tabbed UI, instead of in a giant hurdle of images at the explorer bar. and since i work over several days usually, having a saved sessions would save me from having to browse, find and reopen the images every time i restart the computer.

No tabs in IV, but you can open images using Thumbnails. If you go into slideshow, you can build a list of images you work with and save it as a txt file. Then, when you want, you can load the txt file in Thumbnails and only those images will be shown. You can also setup a shortcut to load the txt file for you.

i don't really care for Iviews movie-opening tendencies though.
it slows down the whole browsing process having movies and images in the same reference folder, and i suddenly stumble on a movie, where Iview will be stuck for 5-6 seconds, before showing me a blank image with sound.

You don't have to. Viewing Only Images in IV

If your video stumbles, you may need to update your codecs.

[JackTIM]

Bumping Tabbed UI

Instead of posting a whole separate thread, I would like to bump this one to reaffirm the want/need of a tabbed browsing option for IV. It's just cleaner and easier to use it like that when you do referential work. I. E. I have a lot of Japanese text books and learning manuals in PDF/JPG and other formats, and tabbing between open instances of IV becomes a hassle.