Programming - Lean and Mean Viewer (LMViewer.exe)

Introduction

More than fifteen years ago I built my first image viewer with Visual basic 5.0. And actually it still serves his purpose . My passion for creating panorama photos (using the full width of the monitor screen) and the challenge to build an application once again brought me to revive this project. The result is an image viewer without frills.

Features

• Selecting images in a specific directory
• Narrowing the selection to certain graphic formats
• Presenting selected images (slideshow)
• Copy the presented image to the clipboard
• Moving the application menu (switch between Left side and bottom)
• Switching location of application menu from left to bottom (and back)
• Switching application skin form light grey (day) to dark grey (night)
• Navigation through images by keyboard arrow keys of by clicking on the left or right side of the image
• Ability to rotate an image (without saving)

Challenges

With building this application I tackled four issues: using the arrow buttons of the keyboard, use the mouse wheel, clicking with the mouse on the left/right part of the image and turning an image. The source code of the core functionality of the first the second and the Fourth issue can be found in the window on the right. The explanation of  thethird issue you will find elsewhere on this website.

Downloads

The installation files (Setup-lmv.zip)
The Quick help (Quick help Lean and Mean Viewer.pdf)

History

August 22, 2016: initial release (version 1.3)
September 5, 2016: implementation mouse wheel (version 1.4)
October 1, 2016: implementation to rotate image (version 1.5)