Inkview: Option to load all files from a folder

[Patrick Storz]

It would be nice if Inkview could easily be told to open all SVG files from a specific folder as a slide-show.

Two possibilities (can be implemented side-by-side):
1) Allow a folder to be specified as input and load all SVG files from that folder
2) If only a single file is specified as input also include other SVG files from that flder in the slide-show.

This would make Inkview more of a general (and convenient at that!) SVG viewer that can be used more easily.

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Current workaround:

One can use the shell to do the work by using "inkview folder/*.svg" (works on Windows, too)

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

Implemented in
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/15690.1.4

[carmen fierro (cfierrob)]

"Current workaround: One can use the shell to do the work by using "inkview folder/*.svg" (works on Windows, too)"

Well, I cannot! Iam running inkscape 0.92.2 under windows 7.
Tried it many ways, both directly AND from a batch file, and I "seem" to have located the problem:
-running this simple batch file, with full echo:

echo on
set inkview="%ProgramFiles%\Inkscape\inkview.exe"
echo %inkview%
cd /D H:\MyPath
echo %CD%
START /wait %inkview% "%CD%\*.svg"

I get an alarm with the very last line:

File "H:\MyPath\*.svg" not found,

-But changing said line to

START /wait %inkview% "%CD%\MyFile.svg"

opens MyFile.svg in INKSCAPE, INSTEAD OF INKVIEW.
I may mention, by the way, that I can and do open .svg files in inkview ... through the explorer context menu, and one by one...
Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!

[Patrick Storz (ede123)]

The problem is your command line:
The first quoted argument to the START command is the "title" to use for the started command window, so in your case
- %inkview% will be interpreted as the title
- "%CD%\MyFile.svg" will be interpreted as the command to run
  (which obviously fails and which is the error you're seeing)

Simply use
START "" /wait %inkview% "%CD%\MyFile.svg"