Selecting Index in the Open image file dialog opens up a thumbnail index window displaying all the images in the current directory. These thumbnails will be recreated every time you do this - they will not be stored on disk (so it will not eat up any disk space) - unless you yourself indicate that they should be saved in a cache-file (for faster loading of the index).
| Clicking the right mouse button in an index window brings up a context menu with the following commands: | |
View image | Opens the selected image icon (same as left clicking on the 'button'). |
View slideshow | View the selected slideshow. |
Edit slideshow | Launch NotePad to edit the selected slideshow. |
Open | Open the file with any associated application (for non-image files). |
Spawn new... | Open the 'Open image file' dialog. [N, F4] |
File → | |
Copy file... | Copy the current image file on disk. |
Move file... | Move the current image file on disk. |
Rename file... | Rename the selected file or folder. |
Delete file... | Deletes the selected file. |
Erase file... | Overwrite & rename the file with random data several times before deleting it. |
Save index as bitmap... | Saves a .bmp file with the index icons (i.e. an image overview map image file). |
Recurse sub-directories | Find and display icons for images in all sub-directories. |
View → | |
Directories | Show directories in the index listing. |
Non-image files | Show all files types in the index listing. |
Name (1 line) | Write out file names as 1 line of text. |
Name (2 lines) | Write out file names as 2 lines of text. |
Name (3 lines) | Write out file names as 3 lines of text. |
Name (4 lines) | Write out file names as 4 lines of text. |
Comment | Write out comment or keyword meta data. |
Resolutions | Write out image sizes. |
File extensions | Write out file extensions. |
File dates | Write out file dates. |
File sizes | Write out file sizes. |
Sort icons → | Submenu that let you sort the icons by name, image size, file size or file date. |
By name | Sort icons by name. |
By full path | Sort icons by the full file path. |
By image size | Sort icons by image resoltion. |
By file size | Sort icons by by file size. |
By file data | Sort icons by file time stamp. |
Icon cache → | |
Recreate | Re-reads the directory and recreated the thumbnail icons. [F5] |
Save cache | Creates a disk cache files containing all the currently displayed icons. [C] |
Update cache | Recreates the disk cache file so that it is up-to date with all the current icons. [C] |
Remove cache | Deletes the disk cache file. [X] |
Slideshow → | |
Create slideshow script... | Creates and runs slideshow script for all images in the directory. [S] |
Run in fullscreen mode | Select whether to run slideshow scripts in full-screen or in windowed mode. |
Options | Opens a dialog with index window and other program settings. [F6] For help, press [?] and then click on the control you want help with. |
Help | Opens this help text. [F1] |
Close | Closes the index window. [Esc, a-X] |
| In addition to the indicated keyboard shortcuts, you can also use the following mouse and keyboard navigation commands: | |
Left mouse button | Click icon to open file. |
Left button double click | Double-click background to maximize / restore window. [F11, a-Enter] |
Right mouse button | Show application menu. [Menu] |
Mouse wheel | Scroll vertically. |
Mouse wheel pressed down | Toggle icon selection (use to select multiple icons). |
Mouse "Browse back" button | Go to parent directory. |
Cursor keys | Move among file icons. [Cursor keys] |
PgUp / PgDn / Space | Scroll by one page. [PgUp / PgDn, Space] |
Home / End | Go to first / last icon. [Home / End] |
Enter | Open file that has keyboard focus. [Enter] |
Ctrl + Enter | Toggle icon selection. [c-Enter] |
Ctrl-Alt-X | Closes all Image Eye windows. [c-a-X] |