Instant, portable, full-screen slideshow application with the Ken Burns effect (and more)!
This idea came to me while watching a slideshow on iPad. How nice would it be if we can create instant slideshows on a Windows machine with only a single executable and a folder of images.
此程序可用Ken Burns等三种效果播放文件夹中的图像，Ken Burns效果可参照iPad照片图库。
Always get the latest development build from here.
最新开发版传送门。
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- WPF application written in VB.net
- .Net framework 4.5 or above.
Config.xml file at application root.- 此程序基于WPF，使用VB.net编写。需要.Net framework 4.5或以上。
- Create instant full-screen slideshow with an imitation of the Ken Burns effect (and more!) for a set of folders that contains images. Images will be looped.
- Support displaying date for the images. Date value is parsed from the file name with format yyyy-MM-dd. If you want a date to be displayed, please rename the image files to the format for this to work. A valid example: 2015-12-02.jpg
- Support audio files to be played in loop at background.
- Options to load large images at lower resolution to improve performance.
- Options for each slide (Edit Mode) is now available by pressing F11.
- Support launching slideshow directly from a folder containing images and audio files.
- Support EXIF rotation.
- Simplified Chinese language support.
- 首次使用需要设置图片文件夹和音乐文件夹（可选）。
- 支持在每张图片上面显示日期。如果图片文件名是2015-12-02.jpg这种格式，屏幕显示的日期即为2015.12。
- 支持背景循环播放音频文件。
- 提供降低分辨率载入图像的选项以改善性能。
- 提供单张幻灯片设置（编辑模式），可添加自定义文本。
- 可关联Windows资源管理器右键菜单，右键点击文件夹直接播放。
- 支持EXIF旋转。
- 支持简体中文语言。
- Press ESC to fade out and quit.
- Press F1 to re-open control panel after it is closed.
- Press F12 at runtime for options.
- Press F11 at runtime for Edit Mode dialog.
- Press Ctrl+P at runtime to hold off transition to the next image (i.e. pause).
- Press Shift+P at runtime to fade out and pause music.
- Press Ctrl+R at runtime to restart slideshow.
- Press Ctrl+Q to quit immediately without animations.
- Press Ctrl+N to jump to the next music item.
The config.xml file serves as a configuration that is loaded at program start. Paths and other settings can be changed to local / relative path according to the location of the folders on your system.Please enclose the folder path with<![CDATA[ ]]>when the path contains markup chars in XML like &.Example:<![CDATA[F:\Folder with & in name\images]]>
- Animation might not be as smooth when not using Windows Aero themes on Windows 7.
- Preferably a Windows 7 or above PC with a modern discrete GPU gives better / smoother performance. Any configuration that affect Aero performance will also affect animation playback. If you have multiple monitors, set to duplicate or single monitor mode for better performance.
- Framedrops may occur when certain programs are opened such as Potplayer and Foobar 2000.
- Choose "All at Once" under Load Mode to load all images at program start. It uses more memory but eliminates frame-drops in transition animation.
- Audio files with URI escape marks in the file name (e.g. This%20is%20a%20song%28I%20am%20kidding%29.mp3) will not be recognized due to .Net won't take strings in Media.MediaPlayer.Open and the only URI it takes just keeps unescaping the file name whenever it can.
- 按 ESC 键淡出并退出。
- 按 F1 键打开/关闭控制窗口。
- 按 F12 键打开选项窗口。
- 按 F11 键打开编辑模式窗口。
- 按 Ctrl+P 可暂停/播放动画。
- 按 Shift+P 可淡出并暂停音乐，再按即恢复播放。
- 按 Ctrl+R 重新开始幻灯片。
- 按 Ctrl+Q 直接跳过动画退出。
- 按 Ctrl+N 下一首音乐。
- 在Windows 7系统里，如果Aero特效未开启，动画效果可能受影响。
- 使用独立显卡和Windows 7（或以上）动画效果会更流畅。任何降低Aero性能的配置都会影响动画效果。如果你连接了多个显示器，设置为双显示复制或者只使用一个显示器会改善动画效果。
- 部分应用程序同样会影响帧率。比如Potplayer和Foobar 2000。
- 载入模式选项中，选择“一次性载入”会在程序启动时载入所有图片。此选项会占用大量内存，但会改善换页动画的帧率。
- 文件名中包含URI转义符的音频文件（如：This%20is%20a%20song%28I%20am%20kidding%29.mp3）不会被识别。
- 2017-04-23
- Add bulk details edit in Edit Mode by (selecting multiple images first).
- Fix initialization logic error.
- Update author info to compiled executable.
- Add minimum configuration file version verification.
- 2017-01-14
- Added fading to desktop animation.
- Added option to jump to the next music item.
- Other minor code changes.
- 2017-01-10
- Added option to avoid showing control window each time the slideshow starts.
- Added fade-in to the exit prompt.
- 2017-01-07
- Added option to exclude sub-folders.
- Minor changes to Options window to fit localizations.
- 2016-10-07
- Added more text customizations.
- 2016-08-17
- Added support for reading orientation information from EXIF and rotate image accordingly. Only rotation support is added. EXIF-flipped images (orientation value 2, 4, 5, 7) are less common.
- Hold returning to desktop during exit by requiring pressing ESC again. (Like in PowerPoint.)
- 2016-08-13
- Added option to randomly show images.
- Added option to randomly play audio.
- Changed some tip texts.
- Fixed displayed text / date may disappear in the second loop.
- 2016-03-11
- Added custom text display.
- Added version verification.
- Added output preview in Edit Slide window.
- Improved text / date display loop.
- Option to add a shortcut menu entry for folders, from where the show can be launched directly.
- Added fade out while application is closing.
- 2016-03-09
- Fixed Random transition not working properly.
- Minor changes on how date animation is handled.
- 2016-03-04
- Added control window from where pause, restart and other functions can be accessed.
- Added simplified Chinese language.
- Minor changes.
- 2016-03-01
- Added Load Mode option for better performance. Improved transition framerate under All-at-Once mode.
- 2016-02-26
- New transition animation "Throw" added!
- Changed how certain animations are handled.
- Added a "Random" transition which randomly use other existing transitions.
- Changes in UI and functionality.
- 2016-02-19
- Added pause and restart control.
- Added Edit Mode where options for each individual slide can be edited.
- Added title slide option in Edit Mode.
- 2016-01-20
- Added more custom options.
- 2016-01-18
- Fixed breathing not being animated correctly when Vertical Lock is off.
- 2016-01-16
- Brand-new transition animation "Breath" added!
- Fixed fadeout setting not getting saved.
- 2016-01-15
- Fixed crash when loading the first image fails.
- Added icon which doubled the footprint of the executable.
- 2016-01-13
- Added complete UI for modification of config.xml file. Removed config.xml from release as it is no longer required for program to start correctly.
- Added some customizable parameters.
- Other non-performance related tweaks.
- 2016-01-08
- Fixed animation not being displayed correctly when last few dates share the same month value.
- Fixed animation not being displayed correctly when vertical lock is on.
- 2016-01-06
- Now mouse cursor will be hidden while slideshow is playing.
- 2015-12-08
- Changed bitmap scaling option to high quality.
- 2015-12-07
- Fixed images not being displayed fully.
- Added customizable option to fadeout for each image. Disabling fadeout might slightly improve performance.
- Added runtime options dialog what supports changing several settings in config.xml at runtime. The dialog is called by pressing F12.
- Other minor fixes.
- 2015-12-06
- Added customizable option to show lower resolution for large images to improve performance.
- Added customizable option to lock movement direction to "down only" for images with height larger than screen height * 1.5. This setting suits better for portraits that usually have faces at the upper part of the image.
- Added customizable option to only show the upper / lower part (depending on movement direction) for images with height larger than screen height * 1.5. This is to avoid image moving too fast thus less elegant.
- Added customizable option to only show the left / right part (depending on movement direction) for images with width larger than screen width * 1.5. This is to avoid image moving too fast thus less elegant.
- Improved error handling when dealing with corruptions. Instead of showing error prompt and exit, program will now replace the problematic image with a black screen as a placeholder in case dates are being displayed.