Yumu is a small background software that aims to solve the struggle finding an image among thousands of images in a folder. It allows locating images in a more timely manner through an interface that is similar to Discord's emote picker.
The software is developed on Visual Studio Code with
the .NET 4.8 Framework SDK.
Use the dotnet build command to build the executable release :
dotnet build -c releaseThe software configuration is accessible from its tray icon.
Yumu will reference all images from a list of directories that
the user specified, i.e. it will list all files with a .jpg, .jpeg,
.png, .gif, .tiff, .bmp extension and allow access to these files from
Yumu's search window.
If a referenced directory content gets modified (i.e adding, removing or renaming an image file), it must be reloaded in the directory window for the modifications to be taken into account.
The search window allows for a quick search through the referenced images. I's opened and focused when the configured hotkey is pressed. The search results are refreshed on each edit in the search bar.
A search result image can be dragged and dropped from the search window
as a file, or copied in the clipboard if selected with a double click or
a press on the Enter key.
When copied into the clipboard, the images are stored under the .NET bitmap format. Pictures lose their transparency, and only the first frame of a GIF is loaded. Converting the image into a DIB (Device Independant Bitmap) format that supports transparency (DIBv5 or Format17), as used by web browsers, and copying it to the clipboard would fix the transperency issue.