tview/README.md

tview

A (relatively) fast, lightweight, and useful image viewer.

Features

• Supports most common image formats
• EXIF Viewing
• Histogram Calculation
• Toggle image filtering
• Pixel level details
• Color tooltip

Gallery

Tooltip

Toggle the tooltip by pressing t !

Detail Views

Toggle detail modes by pressing d

Normal Arrow	Hex Color	RGB 255 Color	RGB Float Color

Image Filtering

Toggle Filtering by pressing

Filtering Off	Filtering On

Usage

tview PATH/TO/IMAGE

Press h to show the help dialog within the program.

Mouse

Scroll to zoom. Click and drag to pan.

Keyboard

• h - Show help
• c- Toggle Histogram
• e- Toggle EXIF data
• d- Cycle #Detail Views (default off)
• a - Toggle image filtering (default off)
• g - Toggle grid (only visible at pixel level)
• r- Rotate image 90 degrees clockwise
• q - Quit

Installing

Requirements to Run

• SDL2
• OpenGL
• Libexiv2

Requirements to build

In addition to the run requirements

• CMake
• C++ Compiler (g++/clang++)

On Ubuntu

apt install --no-install-recommends build-essential cmake libsdl2-dev libexiv2-dev mesa-utils

On Debian

apt install --no-install-recommends build-essential cmake libsdl2-dev libexiv2-dev mesa-utils

On Arch

pacman -Sy sdl2 mesa-utils exiv2 cmake base-devel

Building

Clone the repository

git clone https://git.dws.rip/dubey/tview.git

Change directory into the repository

cd tview

Generate build files and trigger build

cmake .
cmake --build .

You will now have a file called tview in the repository root, you can copy this into your path:

sudo mv ./tview /usr/local/bin/tview

tview is now installed on your system