Anything simialr to Quick View plus?

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Anything simialr to Quick View plus?

Formats don't have to be as comprehensive; basic graphic formats, txt, doc,
rtf, html etc
 
nightfishing said:
Anything simialr to Quick View plus?

Formats don't have to be as comprehensive; basic graphic formats, txt, doc,
rtf, html etc
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Do you want it for Windows Explorer specifically? Because another way
to go is one of the file manager programs; there are a good handful of
those who have some quick view features.

It's others who could most likely come up with recommendations better and
faster than I could. My post is because I thought it might help to first
get it down on which way you wanted to go. Windows Explorer add-on;
or, where I believe you'll have a greater pool of options -- a separate
file manager program with quick view features.

Also. Likely for this request, it's relevant which version of Windows you
use.
 
nightfishing said:
Anything simialr to Quick View plus?

Formats don't have to be as comprehensive; basic graphic formats, txt, doc,
rtf, html etc
Click to expand...

I like filesnoop from ZD's PCmag utilities.
Nice, well though out, unobtrusive, not invasive.

If you can't locate a download site let me know & I'll post it in
alt.binaries.freeware.

DAN
 
omega said:
Do you want it for Windows Explorer specifically? Because another way
to go is one of the file manager programs; there are a good handful of
those who have some quick view features.

It's others who could most likely come up with recommendations better and
faster than I could. My post is because I thought it might help to first
get it down on which way you wanted to go. Windows Explorer add-on;
or, where I believe you'll have a greater pool of options -- a separate
file manager program with quick view features.

Also. Likely for this request, it's relevant which version of Windows you
use.
Click to expand...



Customizing "Send To" is also a quick and dirty way: simply put short
cuts to your media player, mspaint, note pad (i prefer wordpad), web
browser, etc. there is also a program called "Send To Toys" or "Send
To PowerToys" that prove useful. Or you can use a hex editor as well
(so you can at least view the contents of the file).
 
Do you want it for Windows Explorer specifically? Because another way
to go is one of the file manager programs; there are a good handful of
those who have some quick view features.
Click to expand...


Specifically what I am looking for is this:

I have some folders (business related) that contain txt files, doc's,
htmls,jpegs etc. What I would like is a setup similar to ACDSee's Browser;
the ability to see the contents of the folder in thumbnail (or details)
form and then be able to have a preview window to sneak a peak at the
contents of each file. (most files?)

Irfan would be usable, if it had a built in viewer window, as opposed to
opening the files in a seperate window.

I have found explorer replacements/image viewers that get "close" to what I
want, but each has a failing (or two).

The file viewer doesn't have to be 100% complient, it just needs to be able
to be "forced" to preview files even if the view isn't perfect.
 
nightfishing wrote:

n> Irfan would be usable, if it had a built in viewer
n> window, as opposed to opening the files in a seperate
n> window.

To alleviate this problem, do the following:

1) Position the viewer window and the thumbnail window
side by side.

2) In the viewer window, set "View -> Display Options" to
"Do not fit anything" or better, "fit images to window".
This will keep the viewer window stationary.

As you can see here, double clicking on recognised types
(images, txt etc.) cause them to be previewed just as though
the preview pane was built in (almost).

Good luck with this. The only decent preview library I've
ever seen is not freeware.
 
["(e-mail address removed)"; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:58:25 GMT]
Customizing "Send To" is also a quick and dirty way: simply put short
cuts to your media player, mspaint, note pad (i prefer wordpad), web
browser, etc.
Click to expand...

My one annoyance with the Send To menu is that you can't press the first
letter of entries to jump right to them. Is there a workaround for this?
 
nightfishing said:
Specifically what I am looking for is this:

I have some folders (business related) that contain txt files, doc's,
htmls,jpegs etc. What I would like is a setup similar to ACDSee's Browser;
the ability to see the contents of the folder in thumbnail (or details)
form and then be able to have a preview window to sneak a peak at the
contents of each file. (most files?)

Irfan would be usable, if it had a built in viewer window, as opposed to
opening the files in a seperate window.

I have found explorer replacements/image viewers that get "close" to what I
want, but each has a failing (or two).
Click to expand...

Try taking a look at Virtual Explorer? It's a nice 3-pane interface.

The directory navigation vertically on the left, explorer essentially,
and with explorer context menu entries.

Then the right side is made up of two horizontal panes. The top one is
the contents of the open folder, which defaults to big icon view. In
that files list, you again get your normal explorer context menus.

Then the bottom pane on the right is your display window. Single click
to move through viewing files. The display window has two tabs. One is
files with text content. The other tab is graphics display.

It recognizes and displays most of the common graphics types, gif jpg
bmp ico etc. Unfortunately, not png.

When the file you click is not a graphic, it assumes it is a text file.
That can be convenient for moving through bat, ini, reg, log, etc.
Yet, note....

When you click a file within it that is [A] not of the graphics types
it recognizes AND not a text file.... then it displays garbage in
the text tab. It's ugly to see, but it doesn't damage the file. What
you can do for that group of unrecognized files, is double-click them
to launch with associated program.

IOW, single-click to view text files, and common graphics files.

Double-click for all other files, to launch associated program.

Double-click...or use sendto, or whatever else on your context-menu.

Filetypes it handles is slightly more limited than you wanted. Yet
you should still take a look. It's good for moving through text and
graphics files quickly, being able to use explorer navigation...with
the view pane always right there as an inbuilt part of the interface.

http://vsdev.narod.ru/eng/index.html
http://vsdev.narod.ru/viexp.zip 320k

The program is just one exe, no dlls, ocx's. Regentries are few or none,
 
nightfishing said:
Specifically what I am looking for is this:

I have some folders (business related) that contain txt files, doc's,
htmls,jpegs etc. What I would like is a setup similar to ACDSee's Browser;
the ability to see the contents of the folder in thumbnail (or details)
form and then be able to have a preview window to sneak a peak at the
contents of each file. (most files?)

Irfan would be usable, if it had a built in viewer window, as opposed to
opening the files in a seperate window.

I have found explorer replacements/image viewers that get "close" to what I
want, but each has a failing (or two).
Click to expand...

FmEdit98, freeware, whose later incarnations became payware, it has an
inbuilt view pane. The view pane is made up of tabs for graphics, text,
html, office97, and zip. Just, I have a very foggy memory that there was
a tad of bugginess about this program. Cannot remember now....

The other thing I cannot remember is regarding PowerDesk, how satisfactory
it is as far as its view pane? I only remember that sendto was unavailable
with it, reason I uninstalled.

I am seeing on my drive a program, AC Browser, which I'd installed but
not gotten around to using. At a quick look, it shows to do previews with
images. But no other fileypes that I notice. Not browser view of htms, for
example. Its interface is terribly busy, so I'm not going to try to figure
it out as now...

All I can say at the moment is what I posted earlier. Virtual Explorer, it's
worth taking a glance at it. It's self-contained and simple, does no harm.
 
J44xm said:
["(e-mail address removed)"; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 15:58:25 GMT]
Customizing "Send To" is also a quick and dirty way: simply put short
cuts to your media player, mspaint, note pad (i prefer wordpad), web
browser, etc.
Click to expand...

My one annoyance with the Send To menu is that you can't press the
first letter of entries to jump right to them. Is there a workaround
for this?
Click to expand...

I don't think it's possible to implement hot/ accelerator keys for the
items in the Send To menu. The best I could suggest (if it's
keyboard-centric access you're after) is to use the up/ down arrow keys
to navigate the menu destinations.

HTH
 
Ravi said:
nightfishing wrote:

n> Irfan would be usable, if it had a built in viewer
n> window, as opposed to opening the files in a seperate
n> window.

To alleviate this problem, do the following:

1) Position the viewer window and the thumbnail window
side by side.

2) In the viewer window, set "View -> Display Options" to
"Do not fit anything" or better, "fit images to window".
This will keep the viewer window stationary.

As you can see here, double clicking on recognised types
(images, txt etc.) cause them to be previewed just as though
the preview pane was built in (almost).

Good luck with this. The only decent preview library I've
ever seen is not freeware.
Click to expand...


isn't there a shell app that includes a thumbnail viewer when you
right click on an image (brings it up in the context menu) ?
 
isn't there a shell app that includes a thumbnail viewer when you
right click on an image (brings it up in the context menu) ?
Click to expand...

I have a great little free prog called "PicaView" that lets you see
image thumbnail in right-click menu. Wouldn't be without it. Denise.
 
[snip]
Try taking a look at Virtual Explorer? It's a nice 3-pane interface.

The directory navigation vertically on the left, explorer essentially,
and with explorer context menu entries.

Then the right side is made up of two horizontal panes. The top one is
the contents of the open folder, which defaults to big icon view. In
that files list, you again get your normal explorer context menus.

Then the bottom pane on the right is your display window. Single click
to move through viewing files. The display window has two tabs. One is
files with text content. The other tab is graphics display.

It recognizes and displays most of the common graphics types, gif jpg
bmp ico etc. Unfortunately, not png.

When the file you click is not a graphic, it assumes it is a text file.
That can be convenient for moving through bat, ini, reg, log, etc.
Yet, note....

When you click a file within it that is [A] not of the graphics types
it recognizes AND not a text file.... then it displays garbage in
the text tab. It's ugly to see, but it doesn't damage the file. What
you can do for that group of unrecognized files, is double-click them
to launch with associated program.
Click to expand...

[snip]

It looks like a nice app. There is one major problem with it for this
newsgroup. Shareware is not Freeware.
"This is not to say there is anything wrong with people playing 2e, 1e or
whatever else you want to play. Your money, your time, your choice of how
you have fun. Long as you do that it doesn't matter what you play."
----"Lord_Anthrax" <[email protected]>
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dome/3918/index.html
 
Glev Zarriontal said:
[snip]
Try taking a look at Virtual Explorer?
Click to expand...
http://vsdev.narod.ru/eng/index.html
http://vsdev.narod.ru/viexp.zip 320k
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
It looks like a nice app. There is one major problem with it for this
newsgroup. Shareware is not Freeware.
Click to expand...

One of the four products by the developer is shareware. It's name is
Virtual Commander, and was not discussed here.

In the future: Attempt to _read_ before you post.

It will make the right first step, if you were to want your posts to get
anywhere near the realm of facts & accuracy.
 
nightfishing said:
Specifically what I am looking for is this:

I have some folders (business related) that contain txt files, doc's,
htmls,jpegs etc. What I would like is a setup similar to ACDSee's Browser;
the ability to see the contents of the folder in thumbnail (or details)
form and then be able to have a preview window to sneak a peak at the
contents of each file. (most files?)

Irfan would be usable, if it had a built in viewer window, as opposed to
opening the files in a seperate window.

I have found explorer replacements/image viewers that get "close" to what I
want, but each has a failing (or two).

The file viewer doesn't have to be 100% complient, it just needs to be able
to be "forced" to preview files even if the view isn't perfect.
Click to expand...

Maybe:

WazTree II http://ourworld.cs.com/wazware/freeware.htm
graphic files BMP, ICO, GIF, JPG, WMF & EMF.
media files MPG, AVI, WAV etc.
Built in Zip, UnZip
Edit text files using built in text editor (has editor options to
configure).
Internet browser built in
etc.

TrackerV3 http://www.trackerv3.com/
Several audio, video, and graphics formats, text, hex, text-in-binary,
etc., but no html or rtf, much less doc or zip.

BTW, PowerDesk Free does _not_ include the viewer (at least in
WinNT/2k/XP). I use to use PD v3 on Win95 and loved the viewer.

If you find something good, please let us know. I'd like to use it,
too.

BIllR
 
(e-mail address removed) (BillR) wrote in
If you find something good, please let us know. I'd like to use it,
too.

BIllR
Click to expand...

FMedit is the closest thing I have found. The abandoned freeware version
can still be found, although I don't remember where I found it, atm.
 
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