Q. Why my screen saver is
not started while the Zoomer shows slides?
A. This is
designed so, for your convenience.
Q. Why there are no main
menu in the Zoomer?
A. It requires some additional place on
screen, which is very necessary for image view. All commands are still easy
accessible with popup menus, toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts.
Q. Why it is not
multi-language and only English language is provided?
A. Multi-language option is planned for
future.
Q. Why the help system is
not provided in some standard form like WinHelp or HtmlHelp and your own help
system is used?
A. Standard help system requires more size
for the distributive, especially because all the images used in the
documentation should be stored separately from the application. In the Zoomer's
custom help system, most of images are extracted from the executable itself or
generated on fly. Another reason is that HtmlHelp is not working in some Windows
versions (like Windows 95 or NT4 w/o Explorer4).
Q. Why system standard
directory selection dialog is not used? I can not select network folder from
yours dialog. If the Zoomer can not handle image files located in the network
shared folders? If I created new subdirectory it is not listed there, how to
select it?
A. Standard system directory selection
dialog is very slow and especially because of network folders requiring a long
time to open and scan it. Also, it re-scans directories each time it is called
and have some bugs which sometimes prevent it from selecting newly created
folders.
Zoomer's custom directory selection dialog is fast but can not list network
folders. To open files or folders from the network, explore it with your file
manager (e.g. Microsoft Explorer) and drag desired file or folder to the Zoomer
main window. This dialog caches scanned directories, so it does not rescan each
time when called. But closing parent node in the tree and opening it again you
can force it to rescan its child subfolders and make newly created directories
available for selecting it.
Q. Why XP themes are not
used and only your own (single) skin provided?
A. This is the most effective way to provide
identical application looking in different Windows versions, independent from
themes turned on or off or unavailable.
Q. Why the background of
thumbnails is not changed immediately when another background color is selected?
A. This is designed so for efficiency. If
you really want to change background of thumbnails, refresh file list (F5).
Q. My XXXXXXXX Anti-virus
software found that your app is infected with the virus / trojan YYYYYYYYYY. Can
you fix it?
A. I can not fix your XXXXXXXX Anti-virus
software, sorry. The Zoomer is not infected anyway.
Q. When I press [Register]
button, it says that there are no e-mail system installed. My computer is not
connected to the Internet. What I have to do to get a registration?
A. Send me a file keyfile.dat found
in the directory where the Zoomer is installed (attach it to the e-mail, either
as is, or better, first archiving it to the ZIP). You may send me the e-mail
from any computer connected to the Internet, using any e-mail agent (but please
provide correct sender e-mail address, used while making a payment, or type it
in the mail body). Note: this file is created when Options and About dialog is
opened. You should not remove this file from the disk.
Q. I want to use the
Zoomer in the Internet cafe running it from my flash drive. Can I register it (I
am working on different workstations each time)?
A. No. In such case you have to use it as
not registered and wait for nag-screen each time it appear.
Q. Which files are
necessary to be copied to provide the Zoomer working from the removable device?
A. Only Zoomer.exe is actually necessary as
minimal configuration. Take a note that correct icons for file associations will
appear only if your removable disk is not write-protected and the Zoomer could
create a subfolder AssocIcons\ in its home directory. Either, you can copy there
existing such subfolder
Q. When I use
Move-to-folders feature, why it never asks me to overwrite existing files with
the same name?
A. If a file named exactly as moving or
copying is found in the target directory, the Zoomer either saves it
automatically renaming it (adding or changing digits at the end of the file
name) or skips saving if the storing file is identical to the matching one.
Q. How to select several
images in a file list?
A. There are no way to do it in this
version, still the Zoomer was designed just (and mainly) as an image viewer and
all other functions are miscellaneous.
Q. When I use Save As...
popup menu item, an image is saved distorted (flattened vertically). Why and
what to do?
A.
This occur because your display was in a
distorted resolution and an option to fix aspect ratio was turned on. When you
were saving the image, you saw it in a normal aspect ratio, because it was fixed
by the Zoomer. But while fixing the image, the Zoomer internally was distorting
it flattening it vertically, and while saving this flattened version of the
image was used. To avoid such problems, you can turn off "Square pixels" option
in the View area popup menu temporarily.
Q. When "Square pixels"
option is on, image scrolling (Fit window is off) seems to be slow and not so
smooth. Why?
A. If the aspect ratio actually is fixed to
correct display resolution distortion,
it is not possible by technical reason to use native window scrolling operation,
which uses hardware capabilities improving video operations. This is because in
each window position part of the image it must be created from the original
image from its initial picture, so instead of scrolling most of the window area
and updating only scrolled in rectangles, the Zoomer have to repaint entire
window each time, which is certainly slower.