Picture library

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I know video libraries and recording are hip, but I use the picture library functionality of gbpvr a lot, and I find it very poor.

I wanted to ask if it is continues being developed? are there improvements planned?

My picture library is large - since 2006. The list of folders is long. I know I can arrange it differently, but that's a big hassle, I'd prefer the picture library to be able to index it in various ways other than directories/file names.

Also, displaying a folder full of pictures is extremely slow. Compared to explorer, or any other picture browser, it does not make sense. All these tools prepare thumbnails, why is gbpvr doing it the slowest of them all?

Many questions, I hope to have a meaningful thread.
Thanks,
Dan

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I wanted to ask if it is continues being developed? are there improvements planned?

There is certainly a few improvements I would like to make, but I'm stretched pretty thin, and there always seems to higher priority things I need to work on. Hopefully I'll find some time in the near future.

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You can get it to save a thumbnail cache to disk by creating a "c:\program files\devnz\gbpvr\thumbnails" directory. This will mean that after images are previewed for a first time, the small thumbnail version will be stored in that directory. Subsequent visits to that directory, requiring those same thumbnails will be quicker, with the thumbnail read from the thumbnail cache instead of having to be recreated from the large image.

Unfortunately the .NET image processing libraries arent the quickest though.