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  • Started 9 years ago by MikeStrock
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  1. MikeStrock
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    Really enjoy the product, was previously using Thumber. Would be nice to have the following features added, if possible:

    o Ability to have all thumbnails on a single page, no matter how long the page
    o Ability to have the thumbnail size (if modified) saved for all future sesssions
    o Ability to take advantage of second processor for processing speedups
    (if one is available)

    Thanks for a great product.

  2. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 9 years ago

    The first two I can (and probably will) do. The last one would be impossible for me to test, unfortuantely.

    Thanks for the suggestions.

  3. Zep
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    Hi Mark,

    Not being a down-and-dirty Windows programmer, am I correct in understanding that NT-based Windows (NT, 2K, XP) will move program threads across all available CPU's in the machine? So if your wizzo programs are "multithreadable" (is that a word?) they will be optimised this way at runtime?

    The part I'm not sure about is how to "multithread" your code - does it happen in the compiler? The OS? (?) And what happens with Win95/98/Me (ugh )

    cheers
    Zep

  4. Mark
    Administrator
    Posted 9 years ago

    Yes, Windows NT/2K/XP will run a mutithreaded application across multiple CPUs, if available. Unfortunately, the graphics library I use is not thread-safe. I tried to do the image processing in a separate thread early in development, but only got an unpredictable count of access violation errors.

    There may be a work-around, and I've been looking into it. But I think any multi-threading will be done to improve the responsiveness and performance of the 'processing' screen rather than try and synchronize multiple threads for a muli-processor box.

  5. pdundas
    Member
    Posted 9 years ago

    To be fair to the software, I'm not sure that generating the album is the most time-consuming part of the process (maybe mine are too small)!

    There may be improvements that would make more difference..

    Paul[/b]

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