EZView v1.10

Welcome to EZView, A freeware image viewer application which supports the bmp/dib, gif, tiff, png, jpeg, wmf, emf and ico image formats.

I have seem numerous image viewers but none of them provided exactly what I wanted. For such a simple requirement some of the viewer programs I have used were overly complicated or had special requirements.

What I wanted was a nice flexible program, small in size, unobtrusive and easy to use. So with that in mind here is a list of EZView features:

• The size of EZView.exe itself is less than 140k meaning the program loads up quickly and impacts system performance as little as possible.
• Slideshow support is provided with every image in a directory being displayed one by one.
• The most common image formats e.g. bmp, jpeg tiff, png and gif are supported. Some programs try to support every file format under the sun with support for formats which you are very unlikely to meet in day to day use.
• Full - screen mode is provided allowing you to preview the image without having other windows interfering.
• Simple zoom functionality is also included.
• Support for animated gifs and multi-page tiffs.

History

v1.10 (8 December 2019)

• Upgraded the code to use Direct2D (D2D) and Windows Imaging Component (WIC) instead of GDI+. Use of D2D means that all image rendering is now hardware accelerated.
• Added support for showing animated gif images
• Added support for multi-page tif images

v1.09 (16 November 2019)

• Updated initialization of various structs to use C++ 11 list initialization

v1.08 (1 June 2019)

• Updated copyright details.
• Updated the code to clean compile on VC 2019

 v1.07 (23 December 2018)

• Updated copyright details.
• Fixed a number of C++ core guidelines compiler warnings. These changes mean that the code will now only compile on VC 2017 or later.
• The binary included in the download is now compiled with VS 2017.

v1.06 (26 March 2017)

• Reworked the image loading code to not lock the file. This allows the File -> Rename functionality to work again.

v1.05 (21 March 2017)

• Updated the code to internally use GDI+ for loading and displaying images. This change provides better looking scaled image drawing characteristics compared to ATL::CImage::Draw which boils down to a StretchBlt call.
• Fixed a bug in the filename filter for ico files in the File Open dialog
• Verified the the code compiles cleanly on VC 2017
• Reworked the code to show the shell properties dialog for the loaded image instead of a built in dialog in EZView.
• Fixed a number of unnecessary image redraws and flickering when in full screen mode.
• Fixed redraw glitches when you resize the main window.
• The Best Fit setting is now persisted across application runs.

v1.04 (15 January 2017)

• Updated copyright details.
• Made EZView freeware instead of shareware. Now included in the zip file download is the source code for EZView
• The binary included in the download is now compiled for x86 in Unicode mode and was compiled with VS 2015.
• The source code has been updated to work with VS 2010 to VS 2015 and a VS 2010 solution has been included in the download.
• Full screen mode now uses the monitor on which the app is currently showing to go full screen rather than always using the primary monitor.
• Fixed bugs where the index of the image displayed would not get updated correctly when in fullscreen mode
• The app now uses MFC Feature pack controls for the color pickers on the Options property sheet
• The app now uses MFC Feature pack controls for selecting folders for the Open Folder and Move and Copy functionality.
• Updated the CMyRecentFileList class which is used to display the file and folder MRU list to use the latest VS 2015 MFC source code from CRecentFileList.
• The app now uses MFC feature pack classes for the menubar, toolbar & statusbar
• The slideshow timer now no longer fires if a message box is being currently displayed by EZView.
• Fixed a bug where the window would not refresh itself it the code failed to open a image when an existing image was already been shown.
• Fixed a bug where the html help would not be displayed when you selected Help -> Help Index or F1 in the app.
• When the user is prompted to show the first or last message image a task dialog is now shown which includes a don't ask again checkbox
• Added SAL annotations to all the code.
• A double click in the view now enters / exits full screen mode.
• Hitting escape when in full screen mode now exits full screen mode.
• The filename of the current image is now shown in full screen mode even when the directory listing has not been retrieved.

15 September 2004

• Updated instructions on downloading gdiplus.dll into EZView application directory.
• Version of gdiplus.dll which is available at www.naughter.com/download/gdiplus.zip is the version released in September 2004 from MS which does not contain the GDI+ buffer overflow problem.

V1.03 (27 June 2004)

• Now uses v1.29 of my DDXFolder class.
• Now uses v1.12 of my CHKLM class.
• Now uses v1.24 of my CHLinkCtrl class.
• Now includes XP manifest support.
• Slide show interval is now tweakable via a new "Options" dialog.
• Prompts to move to first or last picture in a directory can now be controlled via the new "Options" dialog.
• Now includes full support for extended keyboard buttons (e.g. Play Pause, Prev, Next etc.). This is achieved thro handling of WM_APPCOMMAND messages.
• Now includes an option to hide the cursor when view is full screen.
• Background color for full screen mode is now configurable.
• Filename can now be displayed in full screen.
• Text color for full screen mode is now configurable.
• Confirmation on Deletion of files can now be configured.
• Now supports moving to a random image in the current directory.

V1.02 (23 January 2002)

• Now uses GDI+ to perform the loading and rendering of images. See installation requirements below for changes this means. Moving to GDI+ also means that a number of new image file formats are supported.
• Fixed a crash which was occurring when do a slideshow of a directory. Now uses an updated version of the Authors sorted array class.
• Fixed an assert which was occurring when a file was refreshed.
• Application is now build with latest version of Visual C++ 6.0.
• Updated copyright messages.

 V1.01 (2 October 2000)

• New icon for the Open Directories toolbar item.
• Added a Ctrl+B accelerator for "Open Directory".

V1.0 (22 August 2000)

• First public release.

Installation Requirements

• The prebuilt Unicode release binary in the ReleaseU directory in the download is dynamically linked to the VC 2017 MFC DLL. If you do not have this installed then you can download it from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/. Use the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 (x86) download link.
• If you want to built the source code, then you must have VS 2017 or later installed.

Usage

• Just run the EZView.exe. It uses a standard windows SDI interface. The menu options should be self explanatory. Most options also have an associated hotkey sequence for them meaning that you do not need to use the mouse for most of the important functions of the program.
• You may want to associate EZView with the file extensions .bmp, .dib, .ico, .gif, .jpg and .jpeg. Use the standard Windows shell dialogs to accomplish this. That way whenever you open one of these files in the Windows shell it will be automatically displayed in EZView.
• To bring up the help file (this file), Just press F1 anywhere in EZView.

Contacting the Author

PJ Naughter
Email: pjna@naughter.com
Web: http://www.naughter.com
18 December 2019