JPEG Saver 4.11.1
Published
The main changes in version 4.11 of JPEG Saver were probably not all that exciting, so I've tried to add something genuinely useful in version 4.11.1 - a “Preview” button on the configuration dialog. Pressing this button will save the current settings as a new temporary file (along with a copy of the current database) and then start up the screen saver side of JPEG Saver using this temporary config. After you exit the screen saver, the configuration dialog will still be on the screen for you to make any further changes.
The two other quite noticeable changes in this version are a new “Shutters” transition, and a new option in the interactive options dialog for specifying the filename to use for the desktop wallpaper BMP file that is saved when you press the F10 key.
I've changed the way that the background metadata scan works too, to make it cause less lag when using interactive input. The scan normally checks a batch of ten files in each job, which would cause some delay to loading the next image. The batch size is now reduced to one image when you press an interactive key (or use a mouse button/wheel) and is returned to the normal batch size when the delay between images causes the next image to be loaded automatically.
I've added a new config file option for tuning the batch size, so you can choose whether JPEG Saver is always more responsive by using a small value, or finishes the scan a bit quicker by using a larger value. The option is “scanburst” and supports values from 1 to 50.
The new version of JPEG Saver is available from the downloads page.