Solved Bug(?): Instances opened from 'load all subfolders' views lack some functions

[hellmouth]

If you load a folder and its subfolders into a Thumbnails view and double click on any image, the IV instance that is spawned doesn't respond to the `start slideshow` or `view random file in folder/list` hotkeys/menu items. Most other features seem to function as normal in such a case so I hope this is a bug, but if it should be a feature request instead, please advise accordingly.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Cannot reproduce. The Shift+A shortcut is a toggle that turns on/off the automatic viewing mode.

[hellmouth]

Video example: https://gfycat.com/DemandingSandyHapuka

In the above case, the first time I open IV proper, I'm changing the current file with ctrl+m. The second time I am also pressing ctrl+m, it's just not doing anything.

Also, that drive it's calling a floppy (B: ) definitely is a hard drive that I assigned that letter to manually, so there's something assuming something it shouldn't somewhere, but that's a separate bug.

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Also, that drive it's calling a floppy (B: ) definitely is a hard drive that I assigned that letter to manually, so there's something assuming something it shouldn't somewhere, but that's a separate bug.

That is probably the bug, since I cannot reproduce the reported behaviour with Ctrl+M or Shift+A. Can you reproduce the behaviour on Drive C: ?

[hellmouth]

Sorry, that was just an aside. As you can see in the video if you pause on my folder structure, the folder I'm dealing with is on C:, I just had never noticed the mislabeled drive until I was watching it back myself to make sure I wasn't posting anything sensitive. I have tried this with folders on every drive I have; all of them display this behaviour.

I did just realize I was a couple minor versions behind (4.58 x64), but I also just updated to current (4.60 x64) for both the main program and plugins, and I'm still experiencing the same thing. ctrl+m, w, and ctrl+w are all dead keys when the instance is opened from a thumbnail view that has had subfolders loaded into it. I was worried this was just a limitation of opening a 'synthetic' list like that, not a real folder, but if you can't reproduce it that's very odd. If you need any other diagnostic info/testing steps on my end, please ask.

ETA: Also I'm not really sure where this shift-A stuff is coming into play? is that a hotkey for the thumbnail viewer or the main IV window? I don't see it listed as a hotkey next to any menu items, and it doesn't appear to do anything in either program?

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Did you wait for all of the thumbnails in the subfolders to load?

[hellmouth]

I hadn't, and that was what was blocking me, apparently. If I wait for the entire thumblist to load, the random/slideshow keys start working again. This is somewhat unfortunate, as the folders I'm looking at using this for can take several minutes to generate the thumbs, and I don't actually *care* about the thumbs, I'm basically only using it as a glorified file browser. Is there some way I can tell it to cache the thumbs somewhere? Or really any other advice to cut down that initial load time?

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

See the thumbnail options to disable resampling, and use smaller thumbnails. There is no way to cache thumbnails. Irfan Skiljan does not want to do it.