Hey guys, I couldn't find any similar requests, hope someone likes the idea and is up for it 
A little background:
Screens:
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Summary of features:
- For WinXP (and Vista?)
- Should be instant/fast loading
- Support jpg, gif, png
- Small footprint (implement as a .dll/control panel icon or something simple, not a big app with tray icons etc)
Ideas for optional features (that probably requires a lot more work)
- A setting to enable/disable the addon for each Explorer viewtype (thumbnails/icons/list/details etc)
- Display on hover or on mark/single click file
- User definable max thumbnail size
- Support more images like tif, tga, and possibly also pdf
- Cache
Thanks for your time.
- Chris
A little background:
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I recently found the excellent freewaregenius website, and a review of Xentient thumbnails, which I found to be a very useful tool for Windows.
It helps seeing miniature thumbs of your images instead of generic icons for each filetype, however in a lot of cases those thumbnails will still be too small to be helpful (especially with list or detailed view), and hence I would like to see:
A little addon for Explorer which will extend the standard tooltip functionality to include a proper thumbnail of the image hovered. A key to the success of such an addon is of course speed, if it is not fast people might as well open a 3rd party image browser... my thing is that although I know a bunch of those tools exist, I like to use Explorer, and would really prefer to see such a function added to Explorer rather than having to turn to another 3rd party application.
I also tried to come up with a name, but got nothing other than "PicPop"![:-\](/forum/Smileys/fun/sleepy.gif ":-\")
It helps seeing miniature thumbs of your images instead of generic icons for each filetype, however in a lot of cases those thumbnails will still be too small to be helpful (especially with list or detailed view), and hence I would like to see:
A little addon for Explorer which will extend the standard tooltip functionality to include a proper thumbnail of the image hovered. A key to the success of such an addon is of course speed, if it is not fast people might as well open a 3rd party image browser... my thing is that although I know a bunch of those tools exist, I like to use Explorer, and would really prefer to see such a function added to Explorer rather than having to turn to another 3rd party application.
I also tried to come up with a name, but got nothing other than "PicPop"
Screens:
I made some screens (using Screenshotcaptor, of course
) to help explain what I am picturingturn this
into this
Summary of features:
- For WinXP (and Vista?)
- Should be instant/fast loading
- Support jpg, gif, png
- Small footprint (implement as a .dll/control panel icon or something simple, not a big app with tray icons etc)
Ideas for optional features (that probably requires a lot more work)
- A setting to enable/disable the addon for each Explorer viewtype (thumbnails/icons/list/details etc)
- Display on hover or on mark/single click file
- User definable max thumbnail size
- Support more images like tif, tga, and possibly also pdf
- Cache
Thanks for your time.
- Chris
