This thread is for questions and discussion about Xee. Before posting, check that the question has not already been answered in this thread, or in the previous thread: http://wakaba.c3.cx/sup/kareha.pl/1122405906/

There is also a bug tracker for Xee here: http://code.google.com/p/xee/issues/list

If you have a bug to report, it is better to post it on the bug tracker if you can, so it will not be forgotten.

Might wanna change the "Discussion thread" link on Xee's page to this new thread.

http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee.html

Took me a while to see there was a "Xee, part 2" thread.
 
 

So what's planned for the next release of Xee? (I won't ask when, since I know, I know, "it'll be done when it's done." ;p )

Can't wait.

[insert here annoying repeated request for Xee to remember window size and position]

Keep up the great work!

>>2

Stuff that's already implemented in the development version is more formats, JPEG forensics, and loading bitmaps out of swf and pdf files.

Is the dev. version available for download as an executable?

Also, you said, "If you have a bug to report, it is better to post it on the bug tracker if you can, so it will not be forgotten."

So I assume this includes bugs that were reported in the first support thread, even those that you've responded to and acknowledged? (I indeed reported a few there.)

Hi,

Excellent prgram! Preview is very annoying...

Just one request - is there any way of being able to right click on the picture itself so that you can set it as desktop background, move to trash etc? At the moment, I can't see a way of having anything but that little gloved hand icon moving over the picture....

Apart from that, it's really all you need for a picture viewing program - I especially love the way you can easily scroll through pictures using the mouse wheel!

S

>>4

No. You might be able to download the source from SVN and build it, but then again you might not, it's a bit temperamental. Also, yes, it does help to file bugs even if they were mentioned here. I do try to check the thread for things to fix when I work on it but it's very easy to miss things here.

>>5

There's no way to set things as background, but there are options for moving and deleting in the File menu.

Please change the ugly icon. Sorry dude but they suck! You can get better looking ones at http://www.artofadambetts.com/weblog/?p=119

Can u add a feature like thumbnail-viewing (similat to that one to ViewIt)?

Otherwise it's a really cool app.:)
Could be faster IMHO especially while browsing through hundreds of images. On my PB G4 it runs a little bit slow - ViewIt seems to be a lot faster. But your app is free so why am I complaining?;)

I forgot to mention one thing: Could u add a feature in order to browse a folder with images via keyboard (i.e. up/down or left/right for browsing the image-folder)?
TIA!:) Keep up the great work!

I can't get it to remember my settings. I have to resize the window each time, and then constantly tell it to show the image at ctual size. It keeps making the first one I see 68% for some reason. And I have the Preferences set for display in name order, but it constantly wants to show them by date. Am I doing something wrong?

Could you add support for WBMP (wireless bitmap) files?

Nightly builds?

Is there a way to download a copy of the latest SVN of Xee?

Snow Leopard support? News on next version approx release date?

>>11

Download the source from SVN and build it if you want that.

>>12
It works fine on Snow Leopard.

"It works fine on Snow Leopard." No it doens't. Drag and Drop from Safari to Xee does not work.

"Drag and Drop from Safari to Xee does not work"
Hum... on snow leopard, it seems that Drag and Drop from Safari to ANY APP does not work ;-)

>>8

Xee has always supported this (AFAIK); use the period and comma keys to page backward and forward, respectively, through your pr0n collection. You can also use the spacebar to go forward, or shift-spacebar to go backward. Or you can use Command-Left arrow and Command-Right arrow, though it's harder to hit those with one hand.

Anyway, glad to see my image viewer of choice is still under active development. Thanks for the hard work, WAHa.

"um... on snow leopard, it seems that Drag and Drop from Safari to ANY APP does not work ;-)"

Nope, drag and drop to preview DOES work. But I admit that it could be Apple's problem, not Xee's.

As your archiver app is simply the best one on Mac, Xee could be easily the best image viewing application. Just needs a bit improvements and some missing features.

I appreciate your effort!

Is there any possibility that color problem will be fixed soon? This application is really great, but without "right" colors it is mostly useless...

>>19

> LTwHjGOD

Kamisama!

Good App, certainly better than Preview in Mac - one small issue noted is the Browsing Sort Order is set on "By Filename" every time we open the app, i tried use the Preference to set it on "By Date" without success. Thanks for great app again, looking forward to future updates (perhaps automatic updater?)

Very nice app but with a big problem which makes it unusable for me: upscaled images quality is horrible.

Many other image viewers do a much better job with upscaling, this viewer is very good but not on par with them with this particular task. There is a technical reason for this? Will this be improved in the future?

I found other old complains about upscaling in the other thread with a reply of around 1 year ago but I'd like to know the current status of this issue.

Thanks for your work!

is posible to add expose and coverflow for browsing images? plz!!

Would be handy if Xee could allow forward →and back ← keys on one's keyboard to be used for going forward and backward.

Well, after a whole lot of time, 2.1 is finally out.

http://xee.googlecode.com/files/Xee2.1.zip

• Support for viewing the unix PNM, XBM, and XPM formats, and also Dreamcast PVR.
• Support for reading bitmap images from inside SWF and PDF files. These can also be saved as normal image files. (Note that this does not mean you can view normal PDF files! Only bitmap images will be shown.)
• Support for more metadata formats: Photoshop, XMP and IPTC. Also support for simple image forensics: Xee can analyze the quantization tables in a JPEG image and look up what programs or cameras might have created it from a database.
• Translations into Czech by Czech X Team and Simplified Chinese by Tianhao He.
• Uncompression engine from The Unarchiver included in the app, so The Unarchiver no longer needs to be installed to read files from archives.
• Support for reading files from archive and PDFs that require passwords.
• Better support for Photoshop files.
• Many interface bugfixes and tweaks. The image list should now also update properly when reading files on network shares and FAT drives.
• Some crashes related to broken EXIF data fixed.
• Faster directory scanning.

awesome!
I really got an massive performance improvement on folders with many files.
Thank you for Xee.

>>28
here

so while xee opens the first picture fast it is quite sluggish for some seconds - still faster than preview.
This isn't so bad but this lagginess also comes everytime i use the random picture shortcut. (maybe its rescanning the whole directory every time?)

What is interesting is that ive found an older svn build of xee (svn28, http://www.2alien.info/2009/01/xee_mod_with_remote_controller.html) that opens as fast if not faster than the final 2.1 but doesn't have this bug (if it is a bug)

I only notice this on folders with many pics (1600+) especially when i skim/browse from the start picture back to the last one with the "loop images while browsing" option. Macbook pro with intel 2.33GHz, 3GB RAM, Ati x1600 if you need this info.

>>25
this works just fine - you have to set it in the preferences

>>29

That's probably just because the image you're browsing to isn't preloaded.

Oh come on man, why is there no subdirectory scanning? Do you still believe there are people stupid enought to drag hard drive icon to Xee?

Sigh…

Hi!

I'm trying to run a simple little script from the command line which basically does a slideshow. It goes like

$ for file in *; do open -a Xee $file; sleep 3; done

it works quite well, but I want Xee to always open full screen. There is such an option in Xee, but checking it and running the command above results in every other image is displayed fullscreen. That is I get alternate fullscreen and non-fullscreen images.

Is there a way to work around this? Do you suggest any other way of scripting Xee? Maybe using that applescript nonsense? thanks! by the way great tool!

By the way, the slideshow function is almost what I'm looking for but I need to define a series of delays, not a constant delay. Like 60 images for 10 seconds, 30 for 20 seconds, 10 for 60, and so on. Well maybe I'll hack the code, can't be too hard... or can it :-)

Hello!

I've used Xee since 2006 and it's one of my favorite softwares by far.

There still seems to be a bug with "Default sort order". The option "Same As In The Finder" doesn't work: it still arranges files by filename. I was thrilled when I noticed the 2.1 patch but it didn't fix the problem.

This is actually the only flaw for me in Xee.

I'm using Snow Leopard 10.6.2.

Perhaps the .DS_Store format changed in Snow Leopard. I will have to look into it.

>>36

That should be fixed in the development version already, I think.

This is a great app, but if you add the ability to zoom in and out using the scroll wheel, I will donate 10 euros. Thank you.

I don't find how to switch to russian locale. Perhaps it's not possible unless MacOS X itself is all in russian first, but it would be better if it could be chosen in Preferences. Would be great if I could also resize the images without switching to another application - I know Xee it a viewer but resizing is all I need, it would be so handful!

>>39

Mac OS X itself handles localizations, the app never gets to choose.

Hi,

Congratulations for this excellent and convenient piece of software !

I have found a bug that apparently has not been described yet, but may be linked to message number 32 in this thread : when the "Always Open in Full Screen" option is selected, Xee alternates full screen mode and window mode (instead of using full screen mode only) each time a picture is opened from the Finder or any other external browser.

Here is a step-by-step description :

1. In the menu "View", select the "Always Open in Full Screen" option.
2. Open a picture from the Finder or any other browser. Xee displays it in full screen mode.
3. Put the Xee screen to the background, for instance by pressing Alt+Tab or by using the "Reveal in Finder" command.
4. Open a picture again. Now instead of displaying it in full screen mode, Xee displays it in a window : this is the bug.
5. If you repeat steps 3 and 4, Xee displays the picture in full screen mode again. And if you repeat them again, Xee displays the picture in a window again, and so on.

I am using the latest 2.1 version, on Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11.

Thank you for any answer and good luck !

Sorry : in step 3 of my post above I said "Alt+Tab" instead of "Command+Tab". I was a Windows+ACDSee user too...

still wrong colors :( :( :(
is there any effort in fixing this?!
great app anyway! :D

hey waha, howzit going?
if you remember from the unarchiver discussions, i'm an amiga lover and i recently was able to connect it to my mac and transfer all my old stuff, iffs and mods.

just a wish: support iff-ilbm .anim files.
there's a java app with included source code which reads both iff and anim but xee is already a favorite of course so it would be great if it would support amiga animations.

http://www.randelshofer.ch/multishow/

There is actually an issue filed for it already:

http://code.google.com/p/xee/issues/detail?id=188

The main problem is that the format - or rather, formats, there are several of them - end up being a bit complicated, so it would be a lot of work to do. In an ideal world I'd have the time to do it, though.

ok, maybe for the future.
old people have plenty of free time.
thanks, man.

Well, I decided it was time to make a quick bugfix release.

http://xee.googlecode.com/files/Xee2.1.1.zip

• Added a Spanish localization by miliuconet.
• Fixed another slowdown in the directory scanning code. Should be even faster now.
• Fixed some bugs that caused crashes when reading JPEG metadata.
• Some other minor bugfixes.

Just found this project; Interesting it uses libxad - what next, Amiga Datatypes? :)

Tried to download Xee: "The requested URL /files/Xee2.1.1.zip was not found on this server."

>>50

Works fine here. Temporary glitch at Google?

The "open in a single window" no longer works for me in 2.1.1

I know its probably still out of scope, but printing is the only reason Xee is not my default image viewer...

printing please!

Could you please add an option to auto-close Xee as soon as its last window is closed?

>>23

The full-screen upscaling is especially frustrating when you can get a far better result by displaying the image at normal size and then ctrl-mousewheel zooming in on it.

>>55

Did you try the option for smoothing in 2.1?

>>57

The filetype ownerships are entirely up to OS X, and it seems to get it wrong a lot. It's hard to see how to fix this.

Anyway, the bit about PICT and PNG files is definitely a regression that should be fixed. I'll have to look at it when I get back to working on Xee. If you want to avoid me forgetting about it, post an issue on the bug tracker.

Hi,

thanks for outstanding soft! The only thing (and I might be not the only one) that keeps me on ver. 1 is automatic saving after rotating a picture... Can you possibly make "Auto save after rotating" checking box in preferences? Then Xee would be perfect!

Stan

>>59

I've been meaning to, but for some reason I haven't gotten around to it.

how do i stop xee from attempting to display the ._XXX files that osx creates? since they still have a valid extension (.jpg in this case) xee attempts to show them

>>61

Where are you encountering them?

Also, I suggest filing a bug on the bug tracker about that, because it should definitely be fixed and there's less chance that I forget about it if there's bug filed.

>>61
I encountered this issue when viewing pictures on a network volume with NFS. Not with Samba/AFP tho...

>>61

I submitted a bug report (issue 217)

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(client) Xee 2.1.1; OS X 10.6.2
(share) Ubuntu Server 8.10, Kernel 2.6.27-7-server; Samba 3.2.3

Xee is the perfect program for just viewing images. But doesn't work when i drag a folder with many folders inside. Could you correct this ?

great app. but does not recognize images in a folder containing many other folders with images. can you correct this ?

Just installed this app, it sure looks great.
One thing that I find is missing : the possibility to create a marquee which would automatically zoom in the picture (very much like the image preview in acdsee on win environments).

Cheers, very good app !

Please add the ability to read embedded colour profiles!!!

this program is great, it just saved me so much time searching for a proper .iff converter. I just rendered a huge image in Maya and saved to .iff, i wanted a .tiff of it, but the stupid fcheck program autodesk provides for .iff viewing can't re-save the image at full resolution unless you view the image at actual size, which the mac version of fcheck seems to have no option for.

anyway...just showing some love, thanks!

I want to use Xee for sorting images into several folders. How do I set up the destinations for the Copy and Move File commands?

>>74

Folders will be automatically added when you select them. You can also drag them there.