Hi,
It would be nice to turn collapsing on & off and have XSI remember which viewing mode was last applied to which folder.
In fact it would be nice if the XSI browser could also borrow some bits from Explorer such as:
1. Remembering the viewing mode per folder, whether thumbnails or icons.
2. Being able to edit the sort fields in the Detail mode and adding such things as the image dimensions, date created.
3. Creating a thumbnails file so that you can see them instantly. Good for large images & HDR/OpenExr
A.
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of kim aldis
Sent: Mon 14/08/2006 10:59
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: RE: For next versions of XSI
I'm not so sure it would be that. The files have to be scanned for display
regardless of whether they're going to be collapsed and sorting I think
you'd have to try pretty hard to make that slow.
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> From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> Behalf Of Chris Marshall
> Sent: 14 August 2006 10:45
> To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> Subject: Re: For next versions of XSI
>
> presumably there's no way in XSI of switching off the auto collapsing
> of image sequences, just to test the theory?
>
> Stefan Andersson wrote:
> > That's probably because XSI Explorer is trying to collapse the
> images.
> > However, looking at the same type of explorer in Shake there is zero
> > delay... Something must be going on.
> > People who find it quick, are you working on Linux? Might this be a
> > evil MS problem? :)
> >
> > regards
> > stefan andersson
> >
> >
> > On 8/14/06, Chris Marshall <chris(at)eclipsecreative.co.uk> wrote:
> >> In windows, I can navigate to a sub-folder in the render_pictures
> >> folder of a project (on our network) in just a few seconds.
> >> In XSI, if I open a browser and try to navigate to the same folder,
> >> it takes approximately 5 minutes to open.
> >> Is there any advice for checking where the problem is?
> >> Thanks
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On 8/11/06, Halfdan Ingvarsson <hingvars(at)softimage.com> wrote:
> >> >> > The XSI browser uses exactly the same API as the windows
> browser
> >> >> (we've checked!) to access network files. Maybe they're using
> >> >> undocumented flags (nothing unusual there) to enumerate the files
> >> >> that might speed things up over the network, although I highly
> >> doubt it.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > We do read additional bits in (for thumbnails for example) and
> >> >> > some
> >> >> file info data but nothing that would cause a huge hit.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > - ½
> >> >> >
> >>
> >>
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