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bgrabitmap / lazpaint

🎨 Cross-platform image editor with raster and vector layers similar to Paint.Net written in Lazarus (Free Pascal)
https://lazpaint.github.io/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Image viewer mode #161

Open lainz opened 4 years ago

lainz commented 4 years ago

Is possible passing a parameter to lazpaint.exe that instead of editing mode, it displays the image and arrows to navigate from the different images in the folder?

I mean adding another option to the file association like 'View in LazPaint' to act as an image viewer.

circular17 commented 4 years ago

Sure.

lainz commented 4 years ago

Thanks. That's because I use lazpaint as default image viewer.

circular17 commented 4 years ago

Yes not really convenient if it opens all the windows and menus. Also you cannot navigate the images.

lainz commented 4 years ago

Yes that's true. But a button will be good to exit the image viewer and go to edit mode as well. That feature is available in windows image viewer.

circular17 commented 4 years ago

Ok I understand.

c-sanchez commented 4 years ago

A image viewer mode could be cool, my default image viewer is JPEGView (Windows only), this is my favorite because support many image kinds and their interface is minimal but easy to understand with nice functions. The interface only shows the image, the controls are available but "hidden" like transparent floating buttons which are only shown if you move your mouse cursor over it.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/ Here an example of how jpegview works jpegview-example01

circular17 commented 4 years ago

Wow lot of options. I guess for LazPaint that would rather be: either you look at the image, or you edit the image.

Thomassso commented 3 years ago

I would welcome the suggested feature in LazPaint too. This feature exists in XnView, used a lot by myself, but I had to uninstall XnView, because it is free only for private use, not for commercial.

There is another great image viewer app with the discussed feature: IrfanView. It is totally free. Update: IrfanView is also free for non-commercial use only.

lainz commented 3 years ago

With an SSD Drive the default image viewer works fine on Windows, runs fast enough. So for my part the image viewer mode is not needed anymore.

Still I prefer lazpaint to zoom in and see the pixels I don't like when the image is blurred when I zoom in.

About printing sometimes I use lazpaint because it fits the image perfectly in the paper.

As well I use it as color picker. A good tool for UI design.

So if not used as default image viewer is better anyways in editing mode vs the Windows image viewer and ms paint. Lazpaint wins.

sigurd-dev commented 2 years ago

An option for using Lazpaint as an image viewer would be great!

circular17 commented 2 years ago

I put it as wanted as multiple person showed interest in this mode.