Option to always open window maximized. (feature request)

[koscheim]

Hello,
I am on Win7 and have my images associated with ImageGlass, but always when I 2click any image the IG window opens as default, which is quite small if you have to go through many big images in many folders. I would really love an option to always open maximized, or for the program to remember the last size/position.

If there is such option in windows, I'd be thankful, but I found nothing that would work except the "Ctrl+Shift+Left click close" fix which works only one time, and the "Set your shortcut to do that" fix which is useless for me, as I open files through association, and I wasn't able to associate an extension with a shortcut.

Thanks for creating this great program, hope my is useful.

Edit: (I thought I fixed it but it was just momentary.)
Seems like Maximizing the window and clicking Ctrl+Left clicking the close button does not set it as default either... It works if I close it as such and open the same image, but as soon as I open any other image it's small again.

[fire-eggs]

It is annoying that magic like Ctrl+Left+Close only seems to work reliably on Windows 10.

Can you confirm the issue with ImageGlass 5.0-Moon? (see downloads).

For me, on Windows 7, ImageGlass 5.0-Moon does remember the last size and position. This even when double-clicking on a file through association.

[koscheim]

So. I downloaded it and on its own, it tended to open maximized. Yet, I couldn't set the program as default for images to open in. I experimented (did a stupid thing, perhaps, new to these things, and just rewrote older files in the install folder of 4.5.11.27 with the ones from 5.0.4.27)
For more info, I have only one instance of IG at a time allowed. While every new picture I open gets me a maximized screen maybe.. 8/10 times, as soon as I open another pic while the program is already open, I get small window again, and it keeps so even if I close it and reopen some other pic.

I probably messed up with trying to "install" the 5.0... Only weird thing is I can't set the association if it's just extracted from the zip file, even if I put it in prog. files folder. Windows what's your problem. I get the option, find the file, select it and.. nothing, that is with the extracted file.

A thing I noticed: While a gif is playing, I can't use the right-left keys to navigate, have to stop it with Ctrl+Space to be able to move.

Hope this isn't terribly confusing, apologies for my english and well, the stupid.

[koscheim]

So. Gathered the few brain cells still alive. I uninstalled all versions and got IG 5.0 extracted.

Opened program
Settings
File Associations
selected said extensions
Set as default
Got the "IG was set as default... successfully!"
But nothing was selected, so I selected again
Save
Nothing seems to have happened, if I navigate back to Settings > File assoc., there's nothing selected.
Trying to open anything I got "Error executing program (5)"
Next I tried setting the file associations directly in windows, that finally worked as expected.

In the end:
Did the Ctrl+Right click trick again which helped. Whenever I open new screen it opens maximized. As with previous version, once I try to open another pic while the program is open, screen gets small again. Everything I open next is also in small screen.
For now, I got to avoid trying to open something else while it's running.

Good news: While viewing gifs, I am able to use < and > keys with no problem, god fix!

[d2phap]

Hi @koscheim
Are you able to resolve the issue? You can try https://imageglass.org/moon which supports Full screen mode.

[koscheim]

Will try, at the time I am using stable IG 5.5.7.26

So far, the issue only appears if I open new instance of the program while another windows i already open, and it opens as not maximized. I just either close it before opening ne one, or drop pictures in thereto load a new set. I guess it's a Win7 issue, hmm...

Will test the Moon when I get time, thanks!

[d2phap]

Hi @koscheim

You now can lock any settings in the latest ImageGlass Moon (https://imageglass.org/moon) by creating a igconfig.admin.xml file in the startup folder of IG.

Example:

Always start IG in Maximized window mode

<ImageGlass>
  <Configuration>
    <Info description="ImageGlass Configuration file" version="7.5" />
    <Content>
      <Item key="FrmMainWindowState" value="Maximized" />
    </Content>
  </Configuration>
</ImageGlass>

[koscheim]

Thanks, this works great!