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    From Harriet Bazley@21:1/5 to All on Mon Sep 2 15:43:03 2024
    When I drag a large directory of images to the Thump icon, the window
    that opens is always wide enough to fill most of the screen, which means
    that the application takes forever to render and display all the
    individual JPEG thumbnails. I normally use this feature to view and
    process the most recent images in my digital camera's storage; I used
    to wipe the old images immediately after I had downloaded them, but had
    to replace the card and decided I had better not put the replacement
    through any more read/write cycles than necessary, so now I only wipe it
    when it is full. This means that I may have hundreds of photos in the directory, of which I am only interested in the last half-dozen or so.

    I have 'Only load visible thumbnails' configured, but it doesn't help
    much when there are that many thumbnails visible on screen and I am only interested in the ones *off* screen at the bottom of the window!
    I don't really want to sit and wait for a full-width screen of
    thumbnails to render, so the first thing I have to do every single time
    I open the window is resize it to be only about 3 icons wide (and then
    scroll down to the bottom, but that is unavoidable). Is there any way to configure the default size of the thumbnail viewer?

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  • From Steve Fryatt@21:1/5 to Bernard Boase on Mon Sep 2 18:13:00 2024
    On 2 Sep, Bernard Boase wrote in message
    <5fda269a5b.boase@bernard>:

    By the way, is Thump still available? I cannot find a download in my
    files, and the last known URL (only a year ago) http://www.users.on.net/~belles/software/thump/ doesn't work today.

    I'm not sure. I asked about this at the end of last year, and was told that
    he was probably transitioning ISPs, or at least hosting providers:

    https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/5/topics/19033

    Presumably that hasn't yet happened...

    The source code to a number of the applications is at

    https://www.riscos.info/websvn/

    (so long as RISC OS.info is up, of course), and the ROOL thread above notes that some stuff is in the Wayback Machine.

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  • From Bernard Boase@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Sep 2 17:16:54 2024
    On 2 Sep 2024, [email protected] wrote:

    When I drag a large directory of images to the Thump icon, ...

    By the way, is Thump still available? I cannot find a download in my
    files, and the last known URL (only a year ago) http://www.users.on.net/~belles/software/thump/ doesn't work today.

    Bernard
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  • From Doug Webb@21:1/5 to Steve Fryatt on Mon Sep 2 18:38:43 2024
    In message <[email protected]>
    Steve Fryatt <[email protected]> wrote:



    The source code to a number of the applications is at

    https://www.riscos.info/websvn/

    (so long as RISC OS.info is up, of course), and the ROOL thread above notes that some stuff is in the Wayback Machine.

    Sadly it seems PlayIt is not available via SVN nor is the source zip
    available from the wayback machine, at least from my tries.

    I think Andrew Rawnsley may have have had source at one stage according to
    some posts so perhaps not all is lost?


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  • From Richard Ashbery@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Sep 2 17:22:41 2024
    In article <[email protected]>, Harriet Bazley <[email protected]> wrote:
    When I drag a large directory of images to the Thump icon, the
    window that opens is always wide enough to fill most of the screen,
    which means that the application takes forever to render and
    display all the individual JPEG thumbnails. I normally use this
    feature to view and process the most recent images in my digital
    camera's storage; I used to wipe the old images immediately after
    I had downloaded them, but had to replace the card and decided I
    had better not put the replacement through any more read/write
    cycles than necessary, so now I only wipe it when it is full. This
    means that I may have hundreds of photos in the directory, of which
    I am only interested in the last half-dozen or so.

    I have 'Only load visible thumbnails' configured, but it doesn't
    help much when there are that many thumbnails visible on screen and
    I am only interested in the ones *off* screen at the bottom of the
    window! I don't really want to sit and wait for a full-width screen
    of thumbnails to render, so the first thing I have to do every
    single time I open the window is resize it to be only about 3 icons
    wide (and then scroll down to the bottom, but that is unavoidable).
    Is there any way to configure the default size of the thumbnail
    viewer?

    I can't see any option that allows a user to set the window size. I do
    it in the same way as you have described on the Raspberry Pi 4 rather
    than the ARMX6 which is just that much faster.

    I tried the beta version of CacheFS to see if JPEG rendering on the
    ARMX6 was faster but it makes no difference. When I tried it some while
    ago it did make PDF rendering faster - perhaps I should have read the
    ReadMe file more thoroughly as it makes no mention of helping jpeg
    rendering speed.

    Richard

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  • From Steve Fryatt@21:1/5 to Doug Webb on Mon Sep 2 21:27:34 2024
    On 2 Sep, Doug Webb wrote in message
    <[email protected]>:

    [PlayIt 1.73]

    I think Andrew Rawnsley may have have had source at one stage according to some posts so perhaps not all is lost?

    I appear to have it here if it comes to that -- I assume from context that
    it must be 1.73 Release 2.

    The licence is somewhat fuzzy, though...

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    http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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  • From Richard Torrens (News)@21:1/5 to Steve Fryatt on Sun Sep 8 15:07:13 2024
    In article <[email protected]>,
    Steve Fryatt <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2 Sep, Bernard Boase wrote in message
    <5fda269a5b.boase@bernard>:

    By the way, is Thump still available? I cannot find a download in my
    files, and the last known URL (only a year ago) http://www.users.on.net/~belles/software/thump/ doesn't work today.

    I'm not sure. I asked about this at the end of last year, and was told
    that he was probably transitioning ISPs, or at least hosting providers:

    https://www.riscosopen.org/forum/forums/5/topics/19033

    I have been in touch with Chris Martin: Yes, he has had his ISP sell up,
    so policy has changed: no free web space. But he has been very busy.

    I think it's time to prod him again...

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    Richard Torrens.

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