
Imagine - Image/Animation Lister Plugin for Total Commander


*** Features ***

- Faster than external IrfanView and supports clipboard copy.
- Views Image/Animation files. (NO depends on their extensions)
- Shows informations of image/animation files.
- Shows EXIF(JPEG) informations.
- Shows transparency.
- Extracts a frame(or whole frame) from Animation file.
- Exports Animation file to Animated GIF file/AVI/Flic/Pro Motion Animation.
- Manipulates image
  (Flip,Grayscale,Negative,Change color depth,Swap colors,Rotate,
   Effect filter,Edit palette)
- Tiny & Fast & Pure & Neat executable.
- Plugin add-on available.
- NO depends on any OLE method or any other external viewer.
- NO creates or uses any registry value.
  (except for only when setting desktop wallpaper)


Supported File Type:

|-------------------------------------|-----|-----|----------------------------|
| Extension (Type)                    |Read |Write| Note                       |
|-------------------------------------|-----|-----|----------------------------|
| JPG;JPEG (JFIF Compliant)           |  O  |  O  |                            |
| GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)   |  O  |  O  | Also supports Animated-GIF |
| PNG (Portable Network Graphics)     |  O  |  O  |                            |
| BMP (Windows or OS/2 Bitmap)        |  O  |  O  |                            |
| PCX (Zsoft Paintbrush)              |  O  |  O  |                            |
| TGA (Truevision Targa)              |  O  |  O  |                            |
| PSD (Adobe Photoshop)               |  O  |  X  |                            |
| TIF;TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) |  O  |  O  |                            |
| LBM;IFF (IFF Interleaved Bitmap)    |  O  |  O  |                            |
| FLI;FLC (Autodesk Flic Animation)   |  O  |  O  |                            |
| SPR (Pro Motion Animation)          |  O  |  O  |                            |
| PCD (Kodak PhotoCD)                 |  O  |  X  |                            |
| JPC;JP2;J2K (JPEG2000 Wavelet)      |  O  |  O  | Requires plugin            |
| PBM;PGM;PPM (Portable Bitmap)       |  O  |  O  |                            |
| RAS (Sun Raster Image)              |  O  |  O  |                            |
| SGI;RGB;BW (Silicon Graphics Image) |  O  |  O  |                            |
| JBG;JBIG (JBIG Bi-level Image)      |  O  |  X  | Requires plugin            |
| ICO (Windows Icon)                  |  O  |  O  |                            |
| CUR (Windows Cursor)                |  O  |  O  |                            |
| ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)       |  O  |  O  |                            |
| CLP (Windows Clipboard)             |  O  |  O  |                            |
| RLE (Utah RLE)                      |  O  |  O  |                            |
| DCX (Zsoft Multi-Page Paintbrush)   |  O  |  O  |                            |
| WBMP;WAP;WBM (Wireless Bitmap)      |  O  |  O  |                            |
|-------------------------------------|-----|-----|----------------------------|


*** History ***

Version 0.8.0.0 'Feb 7 2004
- Effect filter supported (Requires plugin)
- 'Full screen' menu added.
- Multiple page image(TIF,ICO,DCX) supported.
  (Browse the pages with Shift+PgUp/PgDown(Home/End).)
- EXIF(JPEG) information available.
- Information dialog was reformed.
- Most common TIFF compression method added.
  (RAW,Packbits,CCITT,LZW,ZIP,JPEG,ThunderScan)
- TIFF saving added.
- 'Rotate free' menu added.
- 'Installed plugins' menu added.
- 'Ask to overwrite file' option added.
- 'Don't notify end/begin of the directory' option added.
- Zoom out smaller than original size of the image.
- Zoom in/Zoom out with mouse wheel supported. (with Shift key)
- Refresh speed enhancement when image is zoomed in.
- Horizontal scroll with mouse wheel supported. (with Ctrl key)
- Some palette file type added.
- 'Palette export' menu added.
- File format added:
    DCX (Zsoft Multi-Page Paintbrush)
    WBMP;WAP;WBM (Wireless Bitmap)
- Fixed: Some PCX error fixed.
- Fixed: Some RLE error fixed.

Version 0.7.3.0 'Jan 1 2004
- An image has alpha value (ex. PNG 32bit) now showed correctly
- Drag&Drop supported.
- Zoom in/Zoom out supported.
- 'Open' menu added.
- 'Fit only big images' menu re-added.
- Fixed: 32bit BMP that has color mask isn't loaded.
- Fixed: Properties dialog is not opened in Windows NT

Version 0.7.0.1 'Nov 24 2003
- Windows XP runtime error fixed.

Version 0.7.0.0 'Nov 22 2003
- Sorry for the late update. (I worked hard with my image library. :( )
- Now with TC 6.0, BMP,ICO files can be viewed with Imagine plugin.
- File format added:
    JBG;JBIG (JBIG Bi-level Image)
    ICO (Windows Icon)
    CUR (Windows Cursor)
    ANI (Windows Animated Cursor)
    CLP (Windows Clipboard)
    RLE (Utah RLE)
- Flic saving added.
- Animation file saving is now 'Save as'.
  (Some export menus(except for AVI) were deleted.)
- Plugin system added.
  (If you don't need the file type, you can delete the plugin file.
   Plugin files are loaded at the first time when Imagine is loaded,
   So, don't care about the speed when you use plugins :) )
- 'Center Image' option added.
- Menu was reformed.
- Mouse left button to get pixel color information.
- Mouse right button to scroll.
- Next/Previous image (Space/Backspace).
- Ini file location was changed. (Same directory as Imagine.wlx)
- Fixed: Keyboard shortcuts doesn't work in Win9x.

Version 0.6.0.0 'Sep 06 2003
- File format added:
    RAS (Sun Raster Image)
    SGI;RGB;BW (Silicon Graphics Image)
- 'Change color depth' added.
- Auto color conversion when saving file.
  (Now you can save JPG to GIF with auto color conversion.)
- 'Set as wallpaper' added.
- Edit palette keyboard access added. (Use arrow keys and press 'E' or 'Alt+E')
- 'Preferences' added. (Background color, Transparent background color/pattern)
- Small scroll bug fixed.

Version 0.5.0.0 'Aug 10 2003
- Status bar added.
- Save option available.
- Show progress(in save file/modify image) available.
- Some shortcuts added.

Version 0.4.9.0 'Aug 06 2003
- PNG transparency added.
- Portable Bitmap/Graymap/Pixelmap file format added.

Version 0.4.8.0 'Aug 02 2003
- PNG saving added.

Version 0.4.7.0 'Aug 01 2003
- 'Show transparency' added.
- JPEG2000 Wavelet file format added.
- Kodak PhotoCD file format added.

Version 0.4.1.1 'Jul 28 2003
- Some PNGs error fixed.

Version 0.4.1.0 'Jul 28 2003
- 'Edit palette' added.

Version 0.4.0.0 'Jul 24 2003
- 'Fit only big images' option added.
- 'Vertical/Horizontal flip' added.
- 'Grayscale, Negative' added.
- 'Swap colors' added.
- 'Rotate' added.

Version 0.3.7.0 'Jul 22 2003
- Some GIFs error fixed.
- Scroll error fixed.

Version 0.3.0.0 'Jul 16 2003
- First release.


*** Installation ***

1. Unzip the Imagine.wlx to the Total Commander directory
2. Choose Configuration - Options
3. Open the 'Edit/View' page
4. Click 'Configure internal viewer'
5. Click 'LS-Plugins' button
6. Click 'Add' button and select the Imagine.wlx
7. Click 'OK'


*** Keyboard shortcuts ***

Ctrl+O - Open image
Ctrl+S - Save image
Space - Next image
Backspace - Previous image
Ctrl+C - Copy to clipboard
I - Image information
V - Vertical flip
H - Horizontal flip
Ctrl+G - Grayscale
Ctrl+T - Negative
Ctrl+D - Change color depth
L - Rotate left
R - Rotate right
Shift+R - Rotate free
Ctrl+Shift+E - Set as wallpaper (Centered)
Ctrl+Shift+T - Set as wallpaper (Tiled)
Ctrl+Shift+S - Set as wallpaper (Stretched)
Ctrl+I - Filter browse
E - Palette edit
Shift+S - Status bar
B - Fit only big images
Enter or Alt+Enter - Full screen
T - Show transparency
+ - Zoom in
- - Zoom out
* - Zoom to 100%

(Animation shortcuts)
Pause - Pause
Ctrl+Pause - Next frame
S - Show frame number
Ctrl+E - Extract all frames

(Multiple page shortcuts)
Shift+PageUp - Previous page
Shift+PageDn - Next page
Shift+Home - First page
Shift+End - Last page


*** P.S. ***

Yes, This is a extension of my previous 'wlxFlic' plugin.
I decide to make a Image/Animation lister plugin using my own graphics library.

It cannot beat the 'IrfanView' or 'XnView', but this can be handy when
you only view/convert the image file.

Most of all image routines are coded by me.
So, the update can be too late. :(

Thank you for trying! :)


Any bug reports or suggestions are welcome.

Author: Chun Sejin (Korea)
e-mail: ivory798@hotmail.com
