PrivateEye 3.14 ready for testing

Hi all,

Here’s PrivateEye 3.14 which has a number of bug fixes and improvements to its handling of app-to-app transfers. It seems okay to me but it’ll need some wider testing before I properly announce it and release its package.

If you’re feeling adventurous there’s a full summary and zip download at <https://github.com/dpt/PrivateEye/releases/tag/privateeye-3.14-3>. Known issues are at <https://github.com/dpt/PrivateEye/issues>

Regards,
Dave

Had a quick look at the open issues page.

Please make the toolbar optional. Some of us don’t much like toolbars. ;)

I find the furniture-less idea interesting. By expanding the window to fill the screen and scaling the image to fit, you could have an instant photo carousel, a bit like how XP’s image preview does it when you do the slideshow thing.

EXIF rotation would be great. Sometimes I grab my phone and take a photo, and only realise some time later that I was holding the phone the wrong way up (when either RISC OS or XP, neither of which understand the rotation metadata so I get an upside down picture).

Thank you for the continued development. Private Eye is a really useful image viewer. Fast, too!

Just want to say a big Thankyou, Dave, for the new scaling mode. Just the ticket :)

No issues to report so far, although I’ve only done a few mins testing.

My only other requests are:

1) Make fit-to-screen scaling percentage the default. I know I can change it, but when sending it to users, I’d like to send it in a pristine state.

2) Give the image input-focus when displayed. There may be some cons to this, but it would allow keyboard shortcuts.

3) Left and right arrow keys (or other) to step through the other displayable image types in a folder.

4) A full-screen “no desktop” mode for viewing photos.

Scaling much better now – thanks.

PNG display on Titanium has the colours wrong: Red and Blue are swapped. Probably because the Mode includes LTRGB.

3) Left and right arrow keys (or other) to step through the other displayable image types in a folder.

+lots for that suggestion!

Edit: Just found stepping already exists! By default Space or PgDown moves to next, PgUp moves to previous. See Choices.Keys to modify or add alternatives (I have just added Left & Right).

Cool! Perhaps those options could also be on the main menu – I simply didn’t know that functionality was present.

I know, I know, RTFM!

Thanks for looking folks. I’ll collect your comments and turn them into issues on the Hub of Git.

Stepping’s been in there in its current state for about 16 years or so. For the next version I’ll probably turn the PDF manual into StrongHelp format and include it inside the app. That should make these features easier to find out.

If anything has wrong colours it’s worth turning Tinct off (in the Sprite choices window). It predates LTRGB screen modes so gets them wrong. It’s also got alignment assumptions which go wrong on Raspberry Pis. A further job for PE is to remove Tinct where the OS has support for alpha blending and tiled sprite fills.

D.

I’ll probably turn the PDF manual into StrongHelp format and include it inside the app. That should make these features easier to find out.

That would be good … with a Help entry on the menu please.

If anything has wrong colours it’s worth turning Tinct off (in the Sprite choices window).

Thanks for that hint – that fixed my PNG colours! I had looked in PNG choices, but I see Sprites are used as well.