I'd like to use IrfanView to create album files from pictures, clips, pdf's, etc. Typically I create two versions, a basic one for friends and a more extensive one for ourselves. This involves selecting files from a directory - possibly including subdirectories - and rearranging their order.
IrfanView's thumbnails view offers most of that, including rearranging order, saving selected items to file and reloading them. However, when reloading items from a file, the left hand directory tree view gets "out of sync" with what is shown in the right hand thumbnail view. Moreover, I do not see an easy way to move additional files from a directory into an already existing album file.
I therefore suggest to introduce a specific irfan album file extension (like .irfan) and handle such files as nodes within the directory tree view (like windows does with .zip files within the explorer or ACDSee does with its album files). This would then allow to add files from other directories using drag/drop (as is already possible in thumbnail view between directories). You could also directly select such an album within the tree view rather than "load images from file..." and would have a proper context within the directory tree view. In case of changes to an album (adding/removing/reordering items) it would be perfect if a "do you want to save changes...?" option would be provided when navigating to another directory/album or closing the thumbnail view. It would be preferable to have album files store file references in a readable form which is relative to the album file directory, so copying directories with their album files to other drives would leave the album files valid.
What do you think? Maybe there are other ways to achive this behavior, which I'm not aware of; any proposals are more than welcome!
Cheers,
Juergen
IrfanView's thumbnails view offers most of that, including rearranging order, saving selected items to file and reloading them. However, when reloading items from a file, the left hand directory tree view gets "out of sync" with what is shown in the right hand thumbnail view. Moreover, I do not see an easy way to move additional files from a directory into an already existing album file.
I therefore suggest to introduce a specific irfan album file extension (like .irfan) and handle such files as nodes within the directory tree view (like windows does with .zip files within the explorer or ACDSee does with its album files). This would then allow to add files from other directories using drag/drop (as is already possible in thumbnail view between directories). You could also directly select such an album within the tree view rather than "load images from file..." and would have a proper context within the directory tree view. In case of changes to an album (adding/removing/reordering items) it would be perfect if a "do you want to save changes...?" option would be provided when navigating to another directory/album or closing the thumbnail view. It would be preferable to have album files store file references in a readable form which is relative to the album file directory, so copying directories with their album files to other drives would leave the album files valid.
What do you think? Maybe there are other ways to achive this behavior, which I'm not aware of; any proposals are more than welcome!
Cheers,
Juergen
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