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Some suggestions for PNGOUTWin
- Multiple trials profiles
As I often change the multiple trials settings, mainly to use different settings for palette and RGB images, I came to the idea of saving settings in profiles to switch between them easily. I think WinMP3Packer’s GUI is a nice example how it could be implemented. The buttons are:- Create a new profile to save settings in
- Copy the currently selected profile into a new profile
- Delete the currently selected profile
Saving the path
I often paste screenshots from the clipboard, but after I started PNGOUTWin, the save path is always set to my desktop. I always have to change the path to my preferred directory. I’d like it saving the last used path.
Early escape
Like in PNGOUT, it would be useful to be able to break the running compression progress without throwing the already achieved compression improvement in the current job away. Re: Some suggestions for PNGOUTWin
Thank you for these suggestions. These are very good. I'll add them to the list, and your previous comments about a portable version have influenced my designs on features like these. I still don't know how to address registration, but for items like presets and history it should be fairly easy to come up with a design that works with thumb drives.
Presets are a frequent request, and I have been thinking about them quite a bit lately.- Support for APNG pictures.
APNG are Animated PNGs. That’s better than GIF, more informations here : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG and http://wiki.mozilla.org/APNG_Specification
“/ks /kacTL,fcTL,fdAT” command is able to optimize the first frame of APNG pictures but if these pictures are interlaced, that will create bad APNG pictures.Edited by Sined at - Well, there are some issues with the APNG format. From what I read, it was designed in 2004, and then it quickly died after some guys pointed out that animation inside a PNG file is against the goals of the PNG standard. In 2006, some students hacked it into LIBPNG, and as of last week, some versions of Mozilla support it. The format is still far from mainstream. Because of this, I'm reluctant to add support to PNGOUT right now, however I will certainly keep an eye on it. Thanks for the tip.
- … and instead of a setting "Minimize to tray" I would prefer a button which allows me to minimize to tray without disabling the normal minimize function and without having to change the settings. FileZilla (an FTP client) has such a feature, you can see the fourth button which minimizes to the tray at the attached screenshot (the left-most button).
Some other ideas:- It may be interesting to see the used CPU time. A few days ago I had PNGOUTWin running in the background while doing some other CPU eating stuff which made the PNGOUT times incomparable. But I think implementing it is probably not worth the work.
- What about sorting the list/table by clicking on the headers? (I think that was mentioned before, but I don’t remember the answer)
- The output size is only shown if it’s smaller than the input. IIRC that behaviour was chosen because bigger output sizes led to confusion, but I think it was useful to see the size to compare the results of the used settings and to guess which settings are worth trying and which are a complete waste of time. Maybe you could make that hiding optional?