SlideShow is a simple program that also allows for very rudimentary viewing and manipulation of images. It was originally written so I could quickly preview, resize and rename images for a project I was working on. It was orginally written in Visual Studio 6.0 using C++ and MFC. Since then, I've migrated it to Visual Studio 2002, 2003 and 2005. (I haven't moved it to Visual Studio 2008 since I'm very dissapointed in it for C++ development.)
One of the original challenges for this program was to maintain a "frame rate." To accomplish this, while one image is being desplayed the program loads and decodes the next image. It still "lags" if the delay is too short and/or the images are large.
Version 1.x used the LeadTools graphics library. This not only created a massive download, I did not have a distribution license for the library, so I dropped it and moved to:
Version 2.x used the Intel JPEG library. This soon became became horribly bloated and ceased to be free (Intel may make great hardware, but they are idiots when it comes to software) and moved to:
Version 3.x uses Microsoft GDI-plus. This library ships with Windows XP and provides all the basic functionality needed for this utility.
Version 4.x uses the LeadTools graphics library again since I needed some basic features GDI-Plus didn't provide (curse you Microsoft!). As with before, without a license, I cannot distribute this version. As a result, only version 3.4 is available.
Download SlideShow 3.4 (127K)