JetBrowser (UWP)

A desktop app for browsing parish book scans distributed in ZIP files.

Building

1. Install Visual Studio 2019
2. Open the jet-browser-uwp project
3. In the configuration toolbar set the Release mode with x64 architecture
4. Click Local Machine to build the solution locally
5. Verify the output stored in jetbrowser\bin\x64\Release\jetbrowser.exe

Running

1. Download sample parish registers: 150-02792.zip (110 MB)
2. Locate downloaded file in the File Explorer, right click the zip file and in the Open with... submenu select the jetbrowser menu item

Usage

• Use <-/-> arrows keys to move to the previous/next image
• Use Shift/Ctrl modifiers together with arrow keys to increase the step to 5/20
• Use Home/End keys to move to the first/last image
• Use H/W keys to scale the image to fit the height/width of the window
• Use R key to reset the size to the original image size
• Use C key to copy the current image filename to the clipboard