Exit IrfanView with Escape in Fullscreen mode

[LonelyPixel]

Hi,

from reading the settings page or change log or somewhere else, I think I can remember an option to exit the application with pressing the Escape key once when in fullscreen mode. Right now, it goes back to window mode then. But I just can't find that option anymore... Is it really there, and if so where? I have found the option to start IrfanView in fullscreen mode (which will close on Esc), but that's not what I want.

Running IrfanView 4.10 on Windows XP.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Yes, it is there in Properties, Misc1. Start in fullscreen if image loaded and exit on ESC.

If you start in Window mode, load an image and go into fullscreen, ESC will close. If you load a file from explorer, it will open in fullscreen mode, and ESC will close.

If the thumbnail window is also open, that won't close. There's another option for that.

[LonelyPixel]

This opens files in fullscreen mode, which is not what I wanted (as I tried to explain). Okay, so if this is the only option of this kind, there is none for me.

I only start IrfanView with a file to show through my file manager, which has the same role as Explorer in your posting.

[Sjef]

If you're not shure about which option you set in IrfanView, just delete the i_view32.ini file in the installation folder of IrfanView (your associations will be kept in the Registry). The next time you start (and close) IrfanView you get the standard options in a new ini file. Now it must be the way you want it:

With an Enter on an associated file IrfanView starts in Windowed-modus (default 100%). Another Enter starts Fullscreen-modes (default Fit to screen). Hit the Escape key to return to Windowed-modus. Another Esc and IrfanView leaves the screen.

That's the way it is and allways has been, beginning from version 1. The only way to accelerate the viewing is the way Bhikkhu Pesala has explained allready.

from reading the settings page or change log or somewhere else, I think I can remember an option to exit the application with pressing the Escape key once when in fullscreen mode.

I don't know any viewer that starts from Explorer in windowed-modus and disappears at Fullscreen modus. I would gladly know where you read such a way of view-escape. Maybe you yet do remember it and inform us about it, because it's an interesting behaviour.

[LonelyPixel]

With an Enter on an associated file IrfanView starts in Windowed-modus (default 100%). Another Enter starts Fullscreen-modes (default Fit to screen). Hit the Escape key to return to Windowed-modus. Another Esc and IrfanView leaves the screen.

I know.

I don't know any viewer that starts from Explorer in windowed-modus and disappears at Fullscreen modus. I would gladly know where you read such a way of view-escape. Maybe you yet do remember it and inform us about it, because it's an interesting behaviour.

Me too. I don't know, I just recall I did. Obviously it wasn't so. But the idea behind it is that <Enter> turns fullscreen on and off and <Esc> quits the application, in whatever mode it is. Can we handle this as a feature wish now?

[Sjef]

Yes, I would like this kind of forced disappearance on «Esc». I think I would uncheck my option Misc1»?Start in full screen?. But it would also depend on which kind of images one is browsing at. Why would anyone browses trough very large ones with this option off?

[LonelyPixel]

In fact I usually browse digital photos in fullscreen mode, but not so other images ond icons that I use for e.g. websites. So always starting in fullscreen mode is as useful for me as always not starting in fullscreen mode, either way I have to hit <Enter> first in some cases.

[Sjef]

...I only start IrfanView with a file to show through my file manager...

I don't know which file manager you use, but I use Total Commander where you can have a preview of your files too. Works very surveyable and no need to start IV's browser. See the attachment.