Magic Lantern is an image viewer I wrote because I was just a little frustrated with the available image viewing programs for OS X. All the ones I could find were (pick and choose here) horribly out of date, slow, and/or commercial/shareware. It's very simple; all I wanted was a quickish program that lets you browse through directories.
I had originally intended to make Magic Lantern available via strangecargo, but I haven't put together a web page for it yet, and all attempts at convincing Larry to do it have failed. For now, I'm posting it here so I can start to get feedback and bug reports/feature requests. Magic Lantern is distributed under the terms of the GPL.
Executable: MagicLantern-1.0.dmg
Source Code: MagicLantern-1.0_source.dmg
The controls are as follows:
down arrow/right arrow: next image in directory
up arrow/left arrow: previous image in directory
page down: skip forward 5 images
page up: skip back 5 images
home: go to first image in directory
end: go to last image in directory
command-F: toggles in and out of full-screen mode
I and command I: toggles filename display in full-screen mode
I'm currently working on more customizable preferences and some bugs, but it's usable/stable enough that I use it as my default program for opening jpg/png/gif/etc files. Features in the pipeline include: resize behaviour preferences, a more appropriate icon, and perhaps XML-RPC integration with a web-based image management library that I'm working on (hopefully, more on that later).
If you're wondering, the name is derived from the name of a device not unlike a slide projector from the early days of photography.
The Magic Lantern icon, "100,000 Fireflies," is distributed with the gracious permission of Matthew Bice of IheartNY.com.
Please ask for features and bugfixes in the comments.
Send patches to me at <allan at counterpop dot net>
