WTD: Absolute micro-tiniest .JPG viewer...

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I would like to do the ACDSee clone for those who do have the runtimes
though just to evaluate the .net approach for those who can run it.
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I don't like the idea of the Dot Net framework. It's just more bloat, more
overhead, more security risks da-da da-da. BUT! I have been trounced for
criticism my by programmers that code for the Dot Net framework, and they
say most of the criticisms are from ignorance. (ignorance here simply means
a lack of knowledge). So, I gave it a shot, and my body parts have not
rotted off... yet! :) I seriously haven't noticed any memory or performance
hit, and no monkey business on the firewall. At the first hint of trouble
it's outt'a here, but it's been 6 months without problems.

Bob

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Instead of "gray" I should have said the + and - keys on the number pad.
That's a throwback to old keyboards and Q-Edit! <LOL!>
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I gotcha now. It's clear now that you explained it. I was thinking
screen gray +/- for some reason <G>.

I think using a default setting similar to ACDSee is good, and
allowing all keys to be user configured. There aren't all that many
keys used and someone who uses another program would probably be most
comfortable setting the keys to what they are used to using.
Some programs re-save a rotated JPEG file, and re-compress the rotated data.
This causes more compression loss, and more JPEG artifacts.
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A viewer should only view. Good manipulation programs are readily
found. However rotating and not saving should be easy.

Hmmm, maybe after getting the viewer I can expand to manipulation in
another program that does both. For now, just a quick viewer is a good
goal.

Steven, if you're reading in you might consider giving this a shot
too. I think your experience might provide for a better program. I'm
just wanting to learn and hopefully create to something worthy in the
process.
INI files are great. I think most experienced computers much prefer INI
files to registry writes!
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That will work then. I just don't see any need in writing anything to
the registry.
So many people have digital cameras these days that it's really funny there
are no "pure" viewers. ACDSee Classic is the closest thing to it, but even
it has a ton of unneeded features.
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Yes, it's my favorite too and all I use it for is viewing.
Besides ACDSee, the only one I have seen that works as I envision is the
viewer that comes with Windows XP! Add 4-5 features (mostly keyboard
shortcuts) to the XP Picture and Fax Viewer, and it would be near perfect.
Go figure that! :)
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Ms does have it's good points, it's the control issues that rile me. I
refuse to pay for software that insists on making decisions that I, as
the paying customer, should alone make.

"Monopoly? That's just a game. I want to control the frigging world!"

Anyway, that's another story. VB .net looks promising on the surface.
 
REM said:
Hmmm, maybe it was 2000 Professional. I coulda sworn I saw 2000 as
viable in .net, but I'm probably mistaken. I know that I could program
in .net in Pro and I thought the apps would run in the non-Pro
version.

The purchase of 2000 Pro might be worth consideration. I've read many
positive things about 2000 and it might well be the last good MS
release that you don't have to ask permission to use. I was going to
buy it to do the .net programs in, but it's pretty pricey and they
gave me XP. I doubt it will be offered for sale for too much longer,
as it's just about passed the "MS lifecycle," which leads on to more
devious versions and the loss of user control.
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well, i've been running w2k pro for more than three years, in three
different laptops incòuding this one. i just reinstalled the system in this
one, after trying xp, and am pretty sure that the first wupdate suggested to
download the 20+ megs of the framework 1.1.

on the other side, if you had installed vb.net or vs.net (i also tried
vs.net last year), the framework came along with.

anyway, i usually consider as stated that everybody have the msvbvm60.dll.
and vb6 easily builds up 15-20k apps. but it's not fair to compare these
with c/delphi standalone exe's.

ciao, j.
 
omega said:
Whenever I see the .net thing brought up, still to this day always the
first thing that comes to my mind was that very humorous incident with
those buffoon MSFT employees getting caught out in their vote rigging.
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In December, Java was more popular than .Net for building Web services,
according to a ZDNet UK poll, but weeks later the position had dramatically
reversed; investigation revealed just what lengths Microsoft will go to to
promote its products
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i'm thankful to ms for some things, including vb, and i dont like wars for
o.s.'s and/or programming languages. anyway, a little note:

as an msdn subscriber, i may install all or most of their sw, some for work
too, some for testing purposes only.

i head do connect to ms to get the serials for xp, office 2003 and visio
2002, and when i installed vsnet 2002 to i had to write a serial.

vsnet 2003 no longer needs a serial code.

eheheh
 
REM said:
[...] but the '51k" wil be more like 1592K or so ... [...]
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'51k' - what a huge thing! I found one here only 12 KB,
the HANDY PICTURE VIEWER - shows pix only in original size

from that file:
"I wrote this small utility using Visual Basic version 4

You can inspect your graphics in one click with this handy little utility.
Simply run Handy picture viewer to instantly view all the graphics on
your system. Very small application.
Handy Picture Viewer can view all the popular graphic formats.
This is a freeware utility.
Any enquiries or donations (hmmm) would be most welcome.
John Thompson - (e-mail address removed) - www.coolgraphic.com "

But that site sis down ...
 
| But that site is down ...

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Why report it, then? Just what was that site? What was
the download name of that file? There are other ways to
look for it.
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'51k' - what a huge thing! I found one here only 12 KB,
the HANDY PICTURE VIEWER - shows pix only in original size
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A "handy picture viewer" will automatically shrink large photos to fit the
screen, yet show smaller photos in their native size.


Bob

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The Handy Picture Viewer thingie is HPICVIEW, found in an obscure Hungarian
website. Although the executable is less than 13K, it requires the
VB40032.DLL
runtime ... another 400K. Thus, no prize.
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