VisLib: A Visual Library Browser / News: Recent posts

At last, the first release! VisLib 1.0.2 is ready,
just test it...

Features:
_ fast display of visual libraries structures
_ scalable image display
_ direct option-controlled background setting
_ easy to use keyboard shortcuts
_ full edition of .vlb files
_ new .vlb generator from images directories
(even handles video files, generating thumbnails)

Drag-n'-Drop, more input and output plugins, more flexible editors are scheduled for the few next releases.

VisLib is a project I started one year ago, to handle my huge collection of desktop backgrounds. The idea was to be able to search for a particular image, with a short textual description, show it and set it as a background, or print it. Now to organize, say, more than 600 images, one needs some sort of hierarchy, or virtual directory system. The early versions were able to do just that.

Some development time later, the handling of several type of textual categorization, easy-to-use editing tools, plugins to generate or export the libraries, and much more, has been integrated into vislib. As it is now a functionnal tool, and more development will need efforts and feedback from developpers and users to make it into a well-supported, muli-functionnal visual library browser and editor, I have released it on Sourceforge. ... read more