Auto-Refresh for JPEGView Slideshow (Mac OS 7.6.1 / Color Classic on NAS)

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Hi everyone,

I'm using JPEGView on my Macintosh Color Classic (Mac OS 7.6.1) as a slideshow app for images stored on a locally mounted NAS drive (Buffalo Linkstation)

My problem is that when new pictures are added to the NAS, I have to restart JPEGView for them to appear in the slideshow.

JPEGView has a "scan subfolder recursively" option. Does this option imply automatic detection/refresh for new files, or only define the scope of a manual scan? I haven't found an effective "refresh" button.

More broadly:

1. Did Classic Mac OS (7.6.1 or 8.1) support genuine live folder monitoring for applications?
2. Are there any other image viewers/slideshow apps for Classic Mac OS known to feature automatic or easily-triggered periodic refreshes for new files on a network share?

Thanks for any help or alternative suggestions!

 

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JPEGView is probably your best bet, but I think the scan only happens when the slideshow is first built.

Your best bet is likely to use an AppleScript in the background to check for new files. The live folder monitoring hadn't been added to AppleScript at this point, but I know I cobbled together my own solution at the time -- there may be something in one of the XCMD collections (Jon's Cmds?) that does it, or I may have just created a loop that watched the number of items in a folder and triggered an action when that number changed. I think this is before the folder itself got a "contents modified" timestamp value to query, so there's no quick solution there.

 

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From version 1.6 - file addition/removal check implemented.
The folder is rescanned if contents are changed.

v1.6.1 Fixed bug –refusing to start up on pre-OS 8 machines (without Appearance Manager).

PictFaderLite v1.8 for testing in the form of a time limited demo (7 days).
This one comes without a ReadMe: Make Alias, place it into System Folder –> Startup Items –> Restart

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