Z-Viewer

Z-Viewer is a zoomable image viewer. Z-Viewer was greatly inspired by ACDSee for Win9x, with emphasis on ease of use - easy slide show based image navigation and an easily accessable zoom feature. To use Z-Viewer, simply access a directory with images, and navigate with the following keys:

+ Zoom in

- Zoom out

* Resize to window

PgUp Previous Image in Directory

PgDn Next Image in Directory

Home First Image in List

End Last Image in List

Cursor Scroll enlarged image

Enter Center image.

Z-Viewer works best when using the numpad (disable num-lock).

Z-Viewer is currently at version 0.94 (Dec 2000). I'm sure that the BeOS community will enjoy using Z-Viewer in its current form, and provide feedback to the developer (thats me!!) so that I may make Z-Viewer the best application it can be.

Whats new?

- Scrollable list view

- Dynamic resizable window (its ultra cool)

- Image labelling.

- No screen flashes when changing images - yeah!!!!!

- No screen flashes when zooming in/out - double yeah!!!!

What needs to be fixed (or added)?

- Limit scrolling of zoomed image to avoid temporary corruption of display.

- Allow resizing of scrollable list view.

- Allow user to set zoom factor, number of frames, image zoom limits etc.

- Image rotation (90,180,270). Anyone care to lend an algorithm?

- Image smoothing (its coming)

- Drag/drop support.

- Region clipping - save to clipboard etc like a real BeOS app should do.

- Anythink else worth while inserting.

Z-Viewer is FREEWARE. The source is included, feel free to use, adapt, modify, strip, etc (dont forget to give credit where credit is due).

Zenja Solaja, Dec 04 2000

Melbourne, Australia

delija@optusnet.com.au