Peek is an image browser for BeOS and supports all the images in your translator library. The aim of Peek is to be a small, fast, efficient, very functional and intuitive image browser.
Alt + C | Copy |
Alt + V | Paste |
Alt + F | Toggle fullscreen |
Alt + S | Start/Stop slideshow |
Alt + H | Hide or show the file list. |
Alt + M | Captures the screen while Peek hides for a second. |
Alt + O | Options window |
Alt + A | Save current image as... |
Alt + T | Move the current file to Trash |
Alt + Q | Quit |
Ctrl while dragging | Changes the state of the Drag&Drop between simple drag&drop and negotiated drag&drop, depending on which is your default. See the Options window to set your default. |
Simple drag & drop is quite simple really. For this mode, when you drag the image out of Peek, you are actually dragging the file and so other applications will think you've dropped a file onto them and not a picture.
Negotiated drag & drop is a lot more tricky. When you drop an image you dragged out of Peek onto a destination (folder, desktop, application, etc), Peek will send the destination a message telling it all the different formats, options, actions, etc, that Peek will allow the destination to do with the image. The destination looks through all of them, picks one it likes (or, perhaps, one you choose) and then replies. Peek then carries out it's bidding. This is the default.
Hey! If you've set one drag & drop as your default and you just quickly want to use the other for a second, hold down CTRL while you drag the image.
Peek uses multi-threading in the file list as well as the slideshow routines. The slideshow routine uses only one thread. The amount of threads used by the file list is unbounded. The number varies according to how fast you scroll down or up the file list. However, the number of threads usually reaches a limit depending really on the speed of your keyboard-repeat value. This shouldn't be a problem. I'm just telling you all in case you wonder why Peek sometimes has 20 threads and then only has 3 a second later.
Peek, An Image Viewing Program for BeOS Copyright (C) 2000 Durand Miller This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.