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.

>>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)

info
(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.

I'ld like to be able to browse inside of .sitx archives. Any possibility of this happening?

>>76

Is that not working with the newest version?

Xee's been an AMAZING program, but I've been having a lot of trouble lately. I installed a program that would let me open up Zip and RAR files, but after I did that, even though I told it not to be the default program for .cbr and .cbz files, it looks like the two programs started to clash, and now I have to approve every .cbz or .cbr file I try to open. I removed Zipeg and removed and reinstalled Xee, but it still won't work. Instead of the familiar orange icon for these files, I'm greeted with a blank sheet of paper icon. I don't know what to do. Help?

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PKK3HS64

Xee's been an AMAZING program, but I've been having a lot of trouble lately. I installed a program that would let me open up Zip and RAR files, but after I did that, even though I told it not to be the default program for .cbr and .cbz files, it looks like the two programs started to clash, and now I have to approve every .cbz or .cbr file I try to open. I removed Zipeg and removed and reinstalled Xee, but it still won't work. Instead of the familiar orange icon for these files, I'm greeted with a blank sheet of paper icon. I don't know what to do. Help?

Feature request: click/double click for next pic, when browsing a zip/rar full of pictures.

The ONLY feature I miss in this amazing application, is some kind of "Fit to width", that would zoom the display in order to match image width with window width.
Thanks in advance in considering this, hopefully, very small modification in your code.

This program keeps making itself the default for opening rar and zip files and I don't want it too as it can't unpack them - is driving me a bit nuts. Please help,
Cheers

Go into the preferences, click the Formats tab, and uncheck the formats you don't want to use Xee for.

When i open Xee i want to set my editor as photoshop elements 8 but when i go to do that nothing comes up under file/Open in Editor/set default editior?
Please help

I would like to have Xee open cbr files, but have The Unarchiver (or Stuffit) open rar files. On my previous computer I was able to do this, but now (with (or because of) Snow Leopard?) I can't change one without the other. Can anyone help me? These programs are wonderful, but this is becoming a big problem for me. Thanks for any help or ideas!

>>88

Try using the Finder's Get Info... to change which programs to use for which formats.

Thank you, but I've tried that again and again with each possibility I can think of. I can't seem to change RAR separately from CBR. If I change one, the other changes too.

Has anyone else had this problem or found a solution?

>>90

Perhaps you have some other program installed that defined the same UTI for them both, confusing Launch Services?

i'm not sure this is something you would want in xee but since there is already simple rename perhaps you could implement multi file (batch) rename that could use exif information so that i could rename my pics to e.g. 2010-08-09_22-30-40.jpg

anyway, thank you very much for this great app!

one more thing:
xee closes window if i hit escape key. it would be great if it closed itself if there is no more open window. perhaps a preference? thus i could more easily use it to preview images from other apps. (return / double-click to open and see an image, escape to close it and return back to app)
cheers.

>>91
I've heard of stuffit causing >90's issue. Perhaps he can check and see if he's got that in his Applications folder.

Is there a manual or online instructions for using Xee? I didn't see either at the main site: http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee and after searching this support page...I assume I'm being stupid but would appreciate help on using this viewer. Thanks.

It would be great if Xee kept file time attributes unchanged when saving losslessly.
Use case: I always go through my photos and rotate some of them but then those have different file date than others. E.g. XnView keeps original file times.
Thanks!

Thanks for a decent program. I am a recent Mac convert. Irfanview is the Windows standard for this type of program. Feature request: a simple x/y window showing the current picture number out of the number of pictures in the folder ie. 18/527. An option in preferences to turn off the delete verification message. Ability to use arrows to move pictures forward and back through list.

Xee already shows you which picture and the total number in the folder. Look in the status bar, bottom left, it is the number next to the folder icon.

Thanks Ben!

I agree with mato : 2010-08-17 23:29. It'd be great if the lossless save would preserve the original file mod date. I believe Xee 1.21 di preserve that, but it seems to have changed. Excellent program - thanks a lot!

Xee is great! I switched to it from JustLooking today. But I haven't found Russian localization in the last (2.1.1) version of Xee. Is this a feature or you've just forgotten to put ru.lproj into resources? Anyway, I took this folder from Version 2.0 resources and Xee began to speak russian. Is there any differences in menu or other translated strings between 2.0 and 2.1.1 versions?

>>101

I think my Russian translator disappeared. Somebody else submitted another translation but I haven't had time to look at that yet.

Also, if you use the 2.0 resources, there are some things that will break, so I can't recommend that.

Does my request (#83 above) has a chance to be considered ?
Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Xee has been my favourite image viewer for a very long time now and though I do check the competition once in a while there is no other to match it with regard to my specific workflow.

I am a photographer and use Xee mainly for sorting quickly through my first import batch. The main task is viewing the RAW files fullscreen and instantly deleting the no-gos.

My sesssion are 400-600 images each, so sorting speed is the most important factor. Unfortunately, Xee only preloads one image at a time, and each load takes 3-4 seconds for my 20+ MB RAW images. That is half an hour or more of unproductive waiting time.

This is why I'd like to ask whether it is possible to preload more than one image at a time (or preload continously in the background). For me it would be sufficient if be able to have 3 images preloaded and the past three images in memory to cut this down to almost zero waiting time.

Any chance for this to become a feature/preference setting of Xee?

Thanks,
Kurausu

Thanks for this terrific app!
the price of success is that there is quite a few bugs to correct now...
is there an estimated date for the next release?

I download XEE und now I see only japanese oder chinese letters?!

How I can change it into Englisch oder German?

I wish theres option to let Xee automatic quit when las image are closed

Thanks for this terrific app!
So powerful while keeping it so simple and immediate to use. Great work. Xee is definitely my preferred image viewer.
Let me know if you'd like me to translate it to Italian!

I don't know if this is possible, but I'd like to be able to undo Move File.

I use Xee a lot for organizing images and sometimes due to my own fault, I'll move an image to a wrong directory. And it'd save time if I could just cmd+z to undo that move.

>>115

That sounds like a pretty useful feature. Not sure how much of a pain it would be to implement, but please file a bug for it on the bugtracker, or else I'll probably forget about it.

This is a fantastic program, and thanks for your effort bringing it to us. I have been looking for a fast and light image viewer for the Mac, and so far this is the best.

I guess you get a lot of suggestions for additional features, so I hope I am not offending you for some myself.

I love the keyboard shortcuts in full screen viewing mode, and was wondering if you could add another couple:

• A key for fill screen to Horizontal borders: (Horizontal max) i.e. the current enlarge/shrink is excellent, but mnany photos on the wide screen Mac displays have two black borders on each side. This is great to see everything in the photo. But sometimes I would like to use the whole screen. This would cut of course a bit from the top/bottom, but in some instances this would be fine.
• Likewise, a key for fill screen to vertical max.

An alternative option would be in preferences to be able to adjust the zoom steps. They are quite large now, but it would be nice to also have smaller steps for each + or - key.

Once again, brilliant work!

I guess I may have been asking too much for a new user ;O) But are there already any hidden settings that may offer the features suggested above? Post 117: ID:klJvg7j4

It is such a great app for viewing, but these features would make it perfect. :O)

I've been using Xee now for a while... one thing I notice is a constant crash on one out of about ever 200 images I open. This doesn't happen with preview or other graphics programs - just xee. I actually get an extensive error report starting with the following:

Process: Xee [1018]
Path: /Applications/Xee.app/Contents/MacOS/Xee
Identifier: cx.c3.xee
Version: ??? (2.1.1)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [197]

Date/Time: 2010-11-15 19:47:48.984 -0600
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574)
Report Version: 6

Interval Since Last Report: 441278 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 35
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 120916 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 22
Anonymous UUID: 6FF7E964-A2D6-4B18-BCA4-199D12AA96C1

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 3

Thread 0: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96f850fa mach_msg_trap + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96f85867 mach_msg + 68
2 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x98c1a37f __CFRunLoopRun + 2079
3 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x98c19464 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 452
4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x98c19291 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 97
5 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x90096f9c RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 392
6 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x90096d51 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 354
7 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x90096bd6 BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInMode + 81
8 com.apple.AppKit 0x9275878d _DPSNextEvent + 847
9 com.apple.AppKit 0x92757fce -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 156
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x9271a247 -[NSApplication run] + 821
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x927122d9 NSApplicationMain + 574
12 cx.c3.xee 0x00002972 _start + 216
13 cx.c3.xee 0x00002899 start + 41

Thread 1: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96fab982 kevent + 10
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96fac09c _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 215
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96fab559 _dispatch_queue_invoke + 163
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96fab2fe _dispatch_worker_thread2 + 240
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96faad81 _pthread_wqthread + 390
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96faabc6 start_wqthread + 30

Thread 2:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96fab982 kevent + 10
1 cx.c3.xee 0x0006b4f0 -[XeeKQueue eventLoop] + 149
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x959e5bf0 -[NSThread main] + 45
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x959e5ba0 NSThread__main + 1499
4 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96fb285d _pthread_start + 345
5 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96fb26e2 thread_start + 34

Thread 3 Crashed:
0 libSystem.B.dylib 0xffff07d7 __memcpy + 55
1 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96f96c20 __sfvwrite + 359
2 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96f9673e __vfprintf + 21700
3 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96f9a1c5 snprintf + 377
4 cx.c3.xee 0x0005aff9 nikon_prop + 415
5 cx.c3.xee 0x0005905e exifparse + 150
6 cx.c3.xee 0x0005cf2f -[XeeEXIFParser initWithBuffer:length:mutable:] + 98
7 cx.c3.xee 0x0005cecb -[XeeEXIFParser initWithBuffer:length:] + 48
8 cx.c3.xee 0x0004c0ee -[XeeJPEGImage load] + 3631
9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x98c56edd __invoking___ + 29
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x98c56e48 -[NSInvocation invoke] + 136
11 cx.c3.xee 0x0007969e CSLeopardCoroutineStart + 34
12 ??? 0000000000 0 + 0
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x98c57cd4 ___forwarding___ + 1108
14 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x98c57802 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 50
15 cx.c3.xee 0x0000fb77 -[XeeImage initWithHandle:ref:attributes:] + 558
16 cx.c3.xee 0x0001172a +[XeeImage imageForHandle:ref:attributes:] + 251
17 cx.c3.xee 0x000115ed +[XeeImage imageForRef:] + 157
18 cx.c3.xee 0x00063ffc -[XeeFileEntry produceImage] + 54
19 cx.c3.xee 0x00081b65 -[XeeListEntry image] + 83
20 cx.c3.xee 0x0008190f -[XeeListSource loader] + 232
21 com.apple.Foundation 0x959e5bf0 -[NSThread main] + 45
22 com.apple.Foundation 0x959e5ba0 NSThread__main + 1499
23 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96fb285d _pthread_start + 345
24 libSystem.B.dylib 0x96fb26e2 thread_start + 34

Thread 3 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0xffff0730 ebx: 0x00000001 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0x00000001
edi: 0x00000000 esi: 0xa095e461 ebp: 0x18eff278 esp: 0x18eff270
ss: 0x00000023 efl: 0x00010282 eip: 0xffff07d7 cs: 0x0000001b
ds: 0x00000023 es: 0x00000023 fs: 0x00000023 gs: 0x0000000f
cr2: 0x00000000

...... it goes on from here....

>>121

Looks like another exiftags crash. Please try to figure out which exact image causes it, and post it on the bug tracker.

>>82>>83

I'm in the same boat as these two, they would be greatly appreciated by a .cbr .cbz viewer. I had trouble finding the zoom memory and scroll position memory options (maybe that's just me) - could I humbly suggest a "comic book mode?"

I heart you for Xee anyhow, everything else sucks :)

>>123

Just a couple clarifications on 82 and 83: auto fit to width or height (whichever is smaller - ie width for a single page, height for two-page spreads). Left click for next image and right click for previous just makes sense to me but I can't say how you'd keep the default click behaviour

^^^Year, autofit was also something I would love to see. The autofit width option is especially something cool. The should be a setting though to stop smaller images from expanding to fit, only larger images shrinking for image quality.

Well, to put into practice my suggestion, I downloaded Xee source code and tried to apply a very small modification.
As a first test, in XeeControlerImageActions.m, I replaced this line :

[self setZoom:horiz_zoom<vert_zoom?horiz_zoom:vert_zoom];

by this one :

[self setZoom:horiz_zoom];

Now, I cannot manage to compile the project (never used Xcode before).
The compiler seems not to be able to find basic include files (stdarg.h, float.h...).

Any help in recompiling Xee would be gratly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I should perhaps give some details about my configuration if I want to receive any help with the build process.

OSX 10.6.5
Xcode 3.2.4

I've just extracted the source tarball somewhere and double-clicked Xee.xcodeproj.

I "suppose" xcode is initially well configured to find include files, but it's just a guess.

Would really love to be able to undo file deletion