Better Image Browser

Milky · Post by **Milky** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:28 pm

Firstly, I think it's the Image Browser that should pop up instead of the file browser when you press "Load Image", or try to "Open" an image in the uv-editor. Secondly, I think the thumbnails really should have more than 256 colours... It feels like the Image Browser has been forgotten or something.

z3r0_d · Post by **z3r0_d** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:45 pm

the image browser is crash prone... which is why it was de-emphasized

joeri · Post by **joeri** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:53 pm

The image browser is done by me using code from frank, updated by zr.
Nobody understands how it works.

It's almost 10 years old code and was in need of a redo long time ago.
But redoing a crossplatform a-sync (image) file version tracker is not an easy task.

Caronte · Post by **Caronte** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:59 pm

joeri wrote:Nobody understands how it works.

LoL

It's true.
I made a patch some time ago to show the thumbnails at 2X size, and that simple task really was like a hell, because everything is hard coded and very cryptic

I don't continue updating it because someone (I don't remember who but whould be in the patch tracker) tell me that a new image loader was planed in near future

apart I'm not a "C" coder.

Sorry by my poor english

Milky · Post by **Milky** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:12 pm

joeri wrote:The image browser is done by me using code from frank, updated by zr.
Nobody understands how it works.

It's almost 10 years old code and was in need of a redo long time ago.
But redoing a crossplatform a-sync (image) file version tracker is not an easy task.

Ah well. Perhaps someone will take up the task.

LetterRip · Post by **LetterRip** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:14 am

I coulda sworn that elubie was working on a new image browser?

LetterRip

aligorith · Post by **aligorith** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 6:08 am

LetterRip: I believe that I saw some screenshots from that too...

Aligorith

an-toni · Post by **an-toni** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 6:18 pm

hee, any news on that?

LetterRip · Post by **LetterRip** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:58 pm

talked to elubie last night, she is really busy with work for the next three weeks but might have time to finish after that. She is basically done, just some performance tweaking and policy choices for where to store preview images etc.

LetterRip

Milky · Post by **Milky** » Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:28 am

LetterRip wrote:talked to elubie last night, she is really busy with work for the next three weeks but might have time to finish after that. She is basically done, just some performance tweaking and policy choices for where to store preview images etc.

LetterRip

OK great, sounds like something for 2.5 then.