Author: Thomas THERY dragfly_kj@rocketmail.com

Butterfly is a picture browser based on the translators for displaying bitmap images. It was inspired by Sea, a DOS picture browser. Its aim is to allow easy and fast browsing of a large number of pictures.

This program is provided as is. I take no responsibility for any damage or consequences directly or indirectly, intentionally or unintentionally, which may arise from using this program - YOU USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!

• File system browsing.
• Drag-and-drop support (resolving symbolic links).
• Dynamically resize bitmaps to fit in the window.
• Zoom-In and Zoom-Out.
• Convert and Save to others formats.
• Pan using the mouse.
• Mouse wheel support to browse images.
• Backgrounds support.
• Multi-lingual support: English, French, Russian, Brazilian-Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Euskera, German.

You can either use the mouse or the keyboard to browse.

To enter a directory, double click it or press Enter. The current path is displayed in the status bar.

To display an image file, click on its name, use the keyboard arrows or the mouse wheel to highlight it.

Drag'n'Drop is supported in different manners. You can drag an image file's icon on Butterfly's icon to launch it. You can drag an image file's icon or a directory to Butterfly window.

Right-clicking in the picture view opens a popup menu with different options (see below).

+/- : Zoom in/out

* : Reset zoom factor to 100%

[Space] or .: Toggle real fullscreen mode (nothing but the picture)

Up Arrow: Move up within the file list

Down Arrow: Move down within the file list

Backspace: Go to the parent folder

Del: Delete the selected file

Shift + Arrow: Move the picture in the given direction

Left Mouse Button: Pan the picture around

Right Mouse Button: Display the popup menu

Convert: Translate and save the current image to another format

Set as Desktop: Modify the current background image

Set All Desktops: Set all desktop background images

Zoom-in/out: Guess...

Preferences: Open the preferences panel

Edmund Vermeulen for his translator routines used in the convert feature. Oleg V. Kourapov for the russian translation. Leonardo Rota-Rossi from the BeOS User Group Rio de Janeiro for the brasilian-portuguese translation. Mario Lupi for the italian translation. Xabier Urrutia for the Euskera/Basque and spanish translations. Finn Bastiansen for the german translation.

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email: bthery_AT_chez.com (for bug reports) or dragfly_kj_AT_rocketmail.com

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