The picture thumbnailing extension for the RISC OS Filer

Introduction

PhotoFiler is a utility which extends the abilities of the RISC OS Filer, turning it into an image thumbnailing tool.

When PhotoFiler is loaded, Sprites, JPEGs and DrawFiles can be shown in miniature in place of their usual filetype icon. This is very useful for organising collections of bitmap and clip-art images, as it allows rapid identification of images.

In addition to thumbnailing, also allows you to define your own directory sprites and remove the pling ('!') character from the display of application names.

PhotoFiler requires RISC OS 3.6 or later ¹.

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¹ RISC OS 3.5 is supported, if the SpriteExtend 0.99 and DrawFile 1.46 modules are available.

Features

• Supports Sprites, JPEG images and DrawFiles.
• Fast, compact module written in 100% assembler.
• Works in all screen modes and on filing systems.
• Always generates the most detailed thumbnails it can.
• Full control over dithering.
• Control panel allows all features to be controlled.
• Thumbnailing can be suppressed by holding down Ctrl as you open the directory.
• Custom sprites can be defined for directories.
• Plings ('!') can be removed from the display of application names.

In Use

PhotoFiler is shown here displaying the contents of the
JPEG images directory, as supplied with Risc PCs.

Here the 'Hide plings' feature is used to remove
the '!' character from the start of application
names, giving a neater-looking display.

An example of a typical directory enhanced
with custom directory sprites.

Download

PhotoFiler is Shareware with a £10 registration fee, payable after two weeks of use.

Click here to download the PhotoFiler archive (26KB Zip).

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