Just updated Picsie to support variable-delay animated GIFs rather than applying the delay on the first frame to the whole animation. Not the most common use case I’ll admit, but it was annoying me and everyone knows that dictates what gets fixed first.
Picsie lives!
After all these years I still use Picsie as my go-to image browser – and now after four years of stability it has a new feature. Go see!
In other news, I’m using Git via BitBucket for source control now, and I’m contemplating open-sourcing the project.
Detecting if another instance of an application is already running
Back in Alpha 1.3 of Picsie, one of the features I added was to have the windows position differently depending on if there were already Picise instances loading. This isn’t as simple as it sounds, and I ended up prostrating myself at the feet of Stack Overflow, begging for wisdom.
Here’s what I learned.
Inevitable Picsie
Alpha 1.9: Since it’s been a while, have a quick Picsie update – images now show tooltips when you hover over them.
Available, as always, from the main Picsie page
Picsie bug fix
I just noticed that animated GIFs aren’t being released when you move on to another image. Fixed now.
Alpha 1.8 (30 November 2010)
- Installer (~75KB). This will set up your file associations for you.
- Standalone .exe (~200KB). Use this if you already have Picsie installed and you just want the latest version. Just drop it over the existing one.
Changelog
- Now properly releases animated GIFs when you switch to a different image.
For a full changelog, see the main Picsie page.
Quick Picsie update
Picsie how has a taskbar icon in Windows 7, to take advantage of the shiny new taskbar system.
Alpha 1.7 (18 November 2010)
- Installer (~75KB). This will set up your file associations for you.
- Standalone .exe (~200KB). Use this if you already have Picsie installed and you just want the latest version. Just drop it over the existing one.
Changelog
- Has a taskbar icon in Windows 7
For a full changelog, see the main Picsie page.
Picsie: Now with less broken zooming
Well, that was a bit embarrassing… All that effort to pre-compute a decent zoom level for images when you load them, and then completely ignoring it. Oops, fixed now.
Alpha 1.6 (13 October 2010)
- Installer (~75KB). This will set up your file associations for you.
- Standalone .exe (~200KB). Use this if you already have Picsie installed and you just want the latest version. Just drop it over the existing one.
Changelog
- Fix: Sets the zoom level properly when you load an image
- Fix: Now consistently applies the minimum zoom level
For a full changelog, see the main Picsie page.
Picsie Update
Nice little update to Picsie for you.
Alpha 1.5 (26 September 2010)
- Installer (~75KB). This will set up your file associations for you.
- Standalone .exe (~200KB). Use this if you already have Picsie installed and you just want the latest version. Just drop it over the existing one.
Minor Picsie update
Just made a quick update to Picsie – larger images wouldn’t zoom to fill the screen properly, this has been fixed. At some point I’ll stop being lazy and deal with the “forms can’t be much bigger than the screen” limitation…
Alpha 1.4 (4 September 2010)
- Installer (~75KB). This will set up your file associations for you.
- Standalone .exe (~200KB). Use this if you already have Picsie installed and you just want the latest version. Just drop it over the existing one.
Picsie updated to Alpha 1.3
Picsie has a minor new feature – a little UI improvement to make it easier to load more than one window at once.
When you load an image or video with Picsie, it checks to see if any other Picsie windows are open. If not, it opens in the middle of the screen. If Picsie is already running, it opens wherever Windows puts it, so it doesn’t cover the previous window.
Alpha 1.3 (7 July 2010)
- Installer (~75KB). This will set up your file associations for you.
- Standalone .exe (~200KB). Use this if you already have Picsie installed and you just want the latest version. Just drop it over the existing one.