2rgdot
IV forum seems to be down.

AFAIR such feature was "no no" for a long time on Irfan's board with explanations that IV is not filemanager but viewer and there is no reason for supporting it. There were also some voices that it is stupid to keep images in archives (nvm trolls . It looked like no one knew about comics (CBZ, CBR) after all.

For now Google shows some archived posts from February that this is planned and author is working on implementation. Few months passed and nothing more has been posted since then

I changed to Xnview because of the Directory Tree - which I prefer! 

2tomos
EOT - End of Topic or End Off-Topic.

I have too strong Usenet roots I can't get rid off

Second thing: it does not solve sorting order problems but having it as Lister plugin I can, at least, limit images sets to marked entries only.

2tomos
The only thing you can do is to ask file manager author to add support for it. Plugins authors can do nothing because plugins know nothing about sorting. In most of the cases they get single file name only. Some plugins (Imagine) might have their own next/previous file features but they are not relying on filemanager at all in such case. The only improvement we can get is to have next/previous support in their "parent" (in TC: it is lister which calls plugs). And we're back to the beginning and bothering an author of our favourite file manager (TC, DO, XY and so on).

What many don't know is that while Imagine is a an exceptional plugin for Total Commander for image viewing the author has programmed it such that it can be used as a stand-alone image viewer. While in some ways it cannot yet beat some of IrfanView's and XnView's features in some ways some may prefer the Imagine way of doing things. It's still a young program, but the author is working very hard on its development.

The Imagine web site is http://www.nyam.pe.kr/ in case anyone's interested and again, it can be used stand-alone and does not require Total Commander in order to enjoy it.

EDIT: Imagine does have Unicode support for those who need it.

Quote from: Steven Avery on April 23, 2008, 02:29 PM

... (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 7+ years).

One thing XnView did not steal is the full Unicode support. XnView is wonderful in many ways, but I find it embarrassing how many file name characters it cannot handle. Characters that Microsoft and IrfanView will handle without any problems. Just one example: "ما ذكرفرحتن حتى من by _ ♥ ~ β@ЯβŸÄĦ ~ ♥ _.jpg" will not open in XnView. If I try to remove the problem-causing characters, one by one, I'll have to shorten the name to "by_@_.jpg"!!! >Western Only< may not be a problem to Americans etcetera, but to me it has been a problem a little too often.



Edit: 'Latin' replaced with 'Western'.

By now, version MP of XnWiev has unicode support.