Mercurial > geeqie

view doc/2_6_image_pane.html @ 554:2da72a136070

Find changesets by keywords (author, files, the commit message), revision number or hash, or revset expression.
Prepare merging of some parts of view_file_list and view_file_icon and simplification of view_file* interface.
author zas_
date Sat, 03 May 2008 09:41:09 +0000
parents e0d0593d519e
children 1b01410e6860
line wrap: on
line source

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
	<META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
	<TITLE>Image Pane - GQview User Manual</TITLE>
	<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 1.1.0  (Linux)">
	<META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20040805;23590500">
	<META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20041222;16353200">
</HEAD>
<BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR">
<CENTER>
	<TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0 STYLE="page-break-before: always">
		<COL WIDTH=85*>
		<COL WIDTH=85*>
		<COL WIDTH=85*>
		<THEAD>
			<TR VALIGN=TOP>
				<TD WIDTH=33%>
					<P><A HREF="2_5_folder_pane.html">Previous</A></P>
				</TD>
				<TD WIDTH=33%>
					<P ALIGN=CENTER>Image Pane - Main Window</P>
				</TD>
				<TD WIDTH=33%>
					<P ALIGN=RIGHT><A HREF="2_7_status_bar.html">Next</A></P>
				</TD>
			</TR>
		</THEAD>
	</TABLE>
</CENTER>
<HR>
<H1>2.6 Image Pane</H1>
<P>The image pane is the region of the main window that displays the
selected image. The image pane allows adjustment of display size and
orientation; it also provides several methods to manipulate the image
with the mouse and keyboard.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><U>Image display</U></P>
<P>The image is drawn to the screen as it is decoded from disk. The
image can be panned and zoomed while it is still loading. Image
adjustment operations for rotation, mirror, and flip will delay until
the image is completed. The adjustment queue will remember one
operation and will retain the most recently requested function, which
will be performed once the image has finished loading.</P>
<P>The quality of the image, especially when using the zoom feature,
is dependent on the settings that are available on the <A HREF="10_2_image.html">Image
tab</A> of the preferences dialog.</P>
<P>To increase the speed of loading the next image when navigating
the image list in sequence, enable the <A HREF="10_2_image.html">Preload
next image</A> option.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><U>Image panning and manipulation</U></P>
<P STYLE="text-decoration: none">When the image size is larger than
the image pane, the visible region can be changed with the keyboard
or mouse. The keyboard can also be used to adjust the orientation of
the image.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><B>Keyboard</B>:
Use the arrow keys to pan the image in the desired direction, to
increase the panning speed hold down the Shift key while pressing an
arrow key.</SPAN> Press Control and an arrow key to move to the
respective edge of the image. The image can only be panned with the
keyboard when the image has the focus, indicated by a dotted line
surrounding the image pane.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">To scale the image size, use the [+]
or [=] key to zoom in and the [-] key to zoom out. The [X] or keypad
[*] key will scale the image to fit the available display area, the
[Z] or keypad [/] key will reset the zoom to original image size.
There are also keys to select a preset zoom factor: [1] = 1:1, [2] =
2:1, [3] =3:1, [4] = 4:1, [7] = 1:4, [8] = 1:3, and [9] = 1:2.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">To rotate the image clockwise 90
degrees press the &ldquo;]&rdquo; key, to rotate counterclockwise 90
degrees press the &ldquo;[&ldquo; key. To rotate the image 180
degrees use [Shift] + [R], the image can also be flipped horizontally
or vertically with the respective [Shift] + [M] (mirror) and [Shift]
+ [F] (flip) keys.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in"><I>Note: The rotation, mirror, and
flip functions will not change the image file on disk.</I></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><SPAN STYLE="text-decoration: none"><B>Mouse</B>:</SPAN>
Press the primary mouse button on the image and hold it, then move
the mouse to pan the image in the desired direction. Releasing the
mouse button will stop the panning operation. The mouse wheel can
also be used to scroll the image when holding down the [Shift] key
(*).</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">To scale the image size hold down the
[Control] key and scroll the mouse wheel up to zoom in, or down to
zoom out.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Smooth Scroll:</B> To start the
smooth scroll function hold down the [Shift] key and click the
primary mouse button. An icon will appear at the location of the
mouse pointer, the mouse can then be positioned to pan the image. The
image will pan in the direction of the mouse pointer relative to the
icon. The pan speed will increase in proportion to the distance that
the pointer is from the center of the icon. To end the smooth scroll
function click the primary mouse button within the image pane.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><U>Navigation</U></P>
<P STYLE="font-weight: medium">The displayed image can be changed to
the next or previous image using the keyboard or mouse.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Keyboard</B>: The Page Down and
Page Up keys will change the image to the next or previous image,
respectively, in the list. The Home and End keys will jump to the
first and last image, respectively. When the image has the focus, the
Space and Back Space keys can also be used to change the image.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Mouse</B>: To change to the next
image in the list click the left mouse button, click the middle mouse
button to change to the previous image. The mouse wheel can also be
used to change the current image (*).</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><U>Context menu</U></P>
<P>Right clicking the mouse or pressing the menu key while the image
has the focus will display a menu. The menu functions will perform
the same as those that match the window's <A HREF="2_2_menus.html">menu
bar</A>, however a few functions are unique to the context menu:</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>View in new window:</B> Opens a new
window containing a second copy of the current image.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Pause slide show</B>, <B>Continue
slide show</B>: Controls the pause state of an active slide show, the
text of the menu will change to reflect the action that will be
performed.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><U>Drag and Drop</U></P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">Files and folders can be dropped onto
the image pane, dropping a file will display the file and dropping a
folder will change the main window to display the contents of the
folder. When dropping multiple items on the image pane, only the
first item in the list will be used, all additional items will be
ignored.</P>
<P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">A drag and drop operation can be
initiated from the image pane with the middle mouse button, the
dragged item will contain the file path of the displayed image.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<P>(*) Note: The mouse wheel behavior for scrolling and image step
can be swapped with the <U>Mouse wheel scrolls image</U> option
located on the <A HREF="10_6_advanced.html">Advanced tab</A> of the
preferences dialog.</P>
<P><BR><BR>
</P>
<HR>
<CENTER>
	<TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0>
		<COL WIDTH=85*>
		<COL WIDTH=85*>
		<COL WIDTH=85*>
		<THEAD>
			<TR VALIGN=TOP>
				<TD WIDTH=33%>
					<P><A HREF="2_5_folder_pane.html">Previous</A></P>
				</TD>
				<TD WIDTH=33%>
					<P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="index.html">Contents</A></P>
				</TD>
				<TD WIDTH=33%>
					<P ALIGN=RIGHT><A HREF="2_7_status_bar.html">Next</A></P>
				</TD>
			</TR>
		</THEAD>
		<TBODY>
			<TR VALIGN=TOP>
				<TD WIDTH=33%>
					<P><BR>
					</P>
				</TD>
				<TD WIDTH=33%>
					<P ALIGN=CENTER><BR>
					</P>
				</TD>
				<TD WIDTH=33%>
					<P ALIGN=RIGHT>GQview User Manual</P>
				</TD>
			</TR>
		</TBODY>
	</TABLE>
</CENTER>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR>
</P>
</BODY>
</HTML>