Fiery Posted May 30 Posted May 30 Hi Guys, We're thinking of showing a preview image when you try to import an SPZIP format SensorPanel layout. So below the question "Are you sure you want to overwrite your existing SensorPanel settings?" in the same dialog it would show you the layout thumbnail. If you like the idea, let us know if the filenames preview.jpg and preview.png for the preview image would be suitable for you. So in case AIDA64 finds an image placed in your SPZIP archive named preview.jpg or preview.png it will not use it for the layout but just as a preview image shown at import. Quote
BHSY Posted May 30 Posted May 30 25 minutes ago, Fiery said: Hi Guys, We're thinking of showing a preview image when you try to import an SPZIP format SensorPanel layout. So below the question "Are you sure you want to overwrite your existing SensorPanel settings?" in the same dialog it would show you the layout thumbnail. If you like the idea, let us know if the filenames preview.jpg and preview.png for the preview image would be suitable for you. So in case AIDA64 finds an image placed in your SPZIP archive named preview.jpg or preview.png it will not use it for the layout but just as a preview image shown at import. That is a great idea, I like it. I don't mind if it is a preview.jpg or preview.png, as long as the image is clear and doesn't slow down the loading time of the thumbnail. What about overwriting the old file? Is it possible for the dialog box to preview the old file image before we click Yes to overwrite it? There were a few times I accidently overwrite the wrong file. Luckily, I have a back up file and a zip file. Quote
Fiery Posted May 30 Author Posted May 30 1 hour ago, BHSY said: That is a great idea, I like it. I don't mind if it is a preview.jpg or preview.png, as long as the image is clear and doesn't slow down the loading time of the thumbnail. What about overwriting the old file? Is it possible for the dialog box to preview the old file image before we click Yes to overwrite it? There were a few times I accidently overwrite the wrong file. Luckily, I have a back up file and a zip file. The OP idea was about import, and I assume your idea is about exporting, isn't it? Quote
BHSY Posted May 30 Posted May 30 4 minutes ago, Fiery said: The OP idea was about import, and I assume your idea is about exporting, isn't it? Yes, both. import and export to show the thumbnail preview. Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. Quote
Sensor Moderators COSTAJUNIOR Posted May 30 Sensor Moderators Posted May 30 5 hours ago, Fiery said: Hi Guys, We're thinking of showing a preview image when you try to import an SPZIP format SensorPanel layout. So below the question "Are you sure you want to overwrite your existing SensorPanel settings?" in the same dialog it would show you the layout thumbnail. If you like the idea, let us know if the filenames preview.jpg and preview.png for the preview image would be suitable for you. So in case AIDA64 finds an image placed in your SPZIP archive named preview.jpg or preview.png it will not use it for the layout but just as a preview image shown at import. I fully support the idea of showing a preview image when importing an SPZIP layout into SensorPanel — this would definitely make the process more intuitive and help avoid mistakes when selecting a layout. The filenames preview.jpg and preview.png are appropriate, and I personally prefer PNG for its transparency support and better definition. I’m also not opposed to the file extension — whether it's JPG or PNG, either one works fine for me as long as the preview image is displayed correctly. Looking forward to seeing this improvement implemented. Quote
Surjeet Posted May 30 Posted May 30 8 hours ago, Fiery said: Hi Guys, We're thinking of showing a preview image when you try to import an SPZIP format SensorPanel layout. So below the question "Are you sure you want to overwrite your existing SensorPanel settings?" in the same dialog it would show you the layout thumbnail. If you like the idea, let us know if the filenames preview.jpg and preview.png for the preview image would be suitable for you. So in case AIDA64 finds an image placed in your SPZIP archive named preview.jpg or preview.png it will not use it for the layout but just as a preview image shown at import. I also support this idea of showing a preview image. This will be a great feature! I just want to ask a question: Do we need to save the Preview image or will Sensor Panel Manager save the preview image inside SPZIP when saving/exporting? Quote
Fiery Posted May 30 Author Posted May 30 1 hour ago, Surjeet said: I also support this idea of showing a preview image. This will be a great feature! I just want to ask a question: Do we need to save the Preview image or will Sensor Panel Manager save the preview image inside SPZIP when saving/exporting? You need to make sure a file named preview.png or preview.jpg gets into the SPZIP package. It can be a hidden image on your layout with the required filename, or after creating the SPZIP file using the Export feature on the SensorPanel Manager you can open the created SPZIP file (with a tool that can alter ZIP archives) and place the file manually there. Quote
Surjeet Posted May 30 Posted May 30 1 hour ago, Fiery said: You need to make sure a file named preview.png or preview.jpg gets into the SPZIP package. It can be a hidden image on your layout with the required filename, or after creating the SPZIP file using the Export feature on the SensorPanel Manager you can open the created SPZIP file (with a tool that can alter ZIP archives) and place the file manually there. Thank you. Got the answer. Waiting for this feature to be implemented at the earliest !! Quote
Fiery Posted Monday at 10:47 AM Author Posted Monday at 10:47 AM On 5/30/2025 at 11:37 PM, Surjeet said: Thank you. Got the answer. Waiting for this feature to be implemented at the earliest !! @BHSY @COSTAJUNIOR Here it is: https://www.aida64.com/downloads/latesta64xebeta Please note that we've already implemented this new feature in the next-generation AIDA64 development build. Learn more at: 2 Quote
BHSY Posted Monday at 11:58 AM Posted Monday at 11:58 AM On 5/31/2025 at 4:17 AM, Fiery said: You need to make sure a file named preview.png or preview.jpg gets into the SPZIP package. It can be a hidden image on your layout with the required filename, or after creating the SPZIP file using the Export feature on the SensorPanel Manager you can open the created SPZIP file (with a tool that can alter ZIP archives) and place the file manually there. I got it after reading the above post. I set my preview.jpg as a hidden image in SensorPanel Manager. Thank you🙏. Is it possible to show a thumbnail preview when I want to export the file? What I mean is, after creating or saving a new SPZIP file with the preview.jpg or preview.png placed in the SensorPanel Manager, show a thumbnail preview under the "*.spzip already exist. Do you want to replace it?" when we want to overwrite the same file again, to make sure we overwrite the correct file. Below image is an example: Quote
Fiery Posted Monday at 12:57 PM Author Posted Monday at 12:57 PM 57 minutes ago, BHSY said: Is it possible to show a thumbnail preview when I want to export the file? What I mean is, after creating or saving a new SPZIP file with the preview.jpg or preview.png placed in the SensorPanel Manager, show a thumbnail preview under the "*.spzip already exist. Do you want to replace it?" when we want to overwrite the same file again, to make sure we overwrite the correct file. Below image is an example: Yes, it's coming too, soon. Showing that at export is a bit more complicated than at import, so it will take a bit of time to make it happen in a proper way. 2 Quote
BHSY Posted Monday at 01:09 PM Posted Monday at 01:09 PM 11 hours ago, Fiery said: Yes, it's coming too, soon. Showing that at export is a bit more complicated than at import, so it will take a bit of time to make it happen in a proper way. Oh WOW! That is so great.☺️ Look forward to your next beta update. I forgot to mention that now I can finally stress test my ASUS TUF GAMING RTX 5070 TI GPU Card using the System Stability Test. Thank you🙏. Quote
Fiery Posted Monday at 01:25 PM Author Posted Monday at 01:25 PM 14 minutes ago, BHSY said: Oh WOW! That is so great.☺️ Look forward to your next beta update. I forgot to mention that now I can finally stress test my ASUS TUF GAMING GPU Card using the System Stability Test. Thank you🙏. Thank you, and I'm glad we're making progress Please post your experience on the next-generation AIDA64 in its own topic, to make sure others can see what it delivers too: Quote
Sensor Moderators COSTAJUNIOR Posted Monday at 06:08 PM Sensor Moderators Posted Monday at 06:08 PM I would like to congratulate the entire team. I have tested the new image preview feature during sensor import, and I can confirm that it is working flawlessly." Quote
Fiery Posted Monday at 06:43 PM Author Posted Monday at 06:43 PM 34 minutes ago, COSTAJUNIOR said: I would like to congratulate the entire team. I have tested the new image preview feature during sensor import, and I can confirm that it is working flawlessly." Thank you for your feedback! @BHSY @Surjeet Meanwhile, another user proposed the idea of automatically placing a snapshot of the SensorPanel (in other words, a screenshot of the SensorPanel window) into the SPZIP package at export, named preview.png That way the whole preview generation and management would be completely automatic. The drawback of such an automatic preview generation is that it would increase the SPZIP output file size. What do you guys think? Quote
Sensor Moderators COSTAJUNIOR Posted Monday at 06:55 PM Sensor Moderators Posted Monday at 06:55 PM I didn't quite understand, but the idea was to implement everything directly within AIDA64, including a button to load the 'preview.png' image. When exporting the skin, this file would be automatically included in the .SPzip package generated by AIDA. Quote
Fiery Posted Monday at 07:03 PM Author Posted Monday at 07:03 PM 9 minutes ago, COSTAJUNIOR said: I didn't quite understand, but the idea was to implement everything directly within AIDA64, including a button to load the 'preview.png' image. When exporting the skin, this file would be automatically included in the .SPzip package generated by AIDA. Right now you gotta either: a) Place the preview.png on your SensorPanel layout as a hidden image ...or... b) After exporting the layout into a SPZIP package, you gotta manually add the preview.png file to your SPZIP package using a ZIP archive tool So either way, it's a manual process. And if you import the SPZIP back, alter it, and export it again, the layout may become incompatible with the previously bundled preview.png (which is only retained if you go option "a" anyway). The whole proposed idea is about making that process hassle-free by automatically generating the preview.png image file as a screenshot of the SensorPanel, and placing it automatically in the SPZIP package at export. 1 Quote
Surjeet Posted Monday at 08:00 PM Posted Monday at 08:00 PM 1 hour ago, Fiery said: Thank you for your feedback! @BHSY @Surjeet Meanwhile, another user proposed the idea of automatically placing a snapshot of the SensorPanel (in other words, a screenshot of the SensorPanel window) into the SPZIP package at export, named preview.png That way the whole preview generation and management would be completely automatic. The drawback of such an automatic preview generation is that it would increase the SPZIP output file size. What do you guys think? I agree that will increase the size. However, at the same time, may we have option whether to include the screenshot process or not: 1. If selected yes, Preview.jpg screenshot to be taken and placed inside SPZIP 2. If selected No, screenshot process should not run and simply SPZIP file should be saved 1 hour ago, Fiery said: Right now you gotta either: a) Place the preview.png on your SensorPanel layout as a hidden image ...or... b) After exporting the layout into a SPZIP package, you gotta manually add the preview.png file to your SPZIP package using a ZIP archive tool So either way, it's a manual process. And if you import the SPZIP back, alter it, and export it again, the layout may become incompatible with the previously bundled preview.png (which is only retained if you go option "a" anyway). The whole proposed idea is about making that process hassle-free by automatically generating the preview.png image file as a screenshot of the SensorPanel, and placing it automatically in the SPZIP package at export. I tested both a and b : BOTH worked for me! For a this is I did: I added "Preview.jpg" as the first , top-most item in the sensor panel manager and hide it. After that I exported the SPZIP file and the preview file was seen when I imported this SPZIP file. Further, I made changes to the panel and again exported the SPZIP , overwrite the previous file (I did not make any changes to the preview file added earlier) and everything worked for me as earlier! 1 Quote
Sensor Moderators COSTAJUNIOR Posted Monday at 10:24 PM Sensor Moderators Posted Monday at 10:24 PM 2 hours ago, Surjeet said: I agree that will increase the size. However, at the same time, may we have option whether to include the screenshot process or not: 1. If selected yes, Preview.jpg screenshot to be taken and placed inside SPZIP 2. If selected No, screenshot process should not run and simply SPZIP file should be saved I tested both a and b : BOTH worked for me! For a this is I did: I added "Preview.jpg" as the first , top-most item in the sensor panel manager and hide it. After that I exported the SPZIP file and the preview file was seen when I imported this SPZIP file. Further, I made changes to the panel and again exported the SPZIP , overwrite the previous file (I did not make any changes to the preview file added earlier) and everything worked for me as earlier! 👊😉 I tested it just like you explained, and it's definitely much more practical and faster! I added "Preview.jpg" as the first item in the sensor panel, hid it, exported the SPZIP, and the preview image showed up perfectly when importing. I'm going to use this method from now on — way more efficient. And an important note: there's no need to save the "Preview.jpg" at maximum resolution. Using the High option already gives great quality for the preview without making the SPZIP file too heavy. Congrats on the tip — that was pure gold! 1 Quote
BHSY Posted Tuesday at 12:37 AM Posted Tuesday at 12:37 AM 5 hours ago, Fiery said: Thank you for your feedback! @BHSY @Surjeet Meanwhile, another user proposed the idea of automatically placing a snapshot of the SensorPanel (in other words, a screenshot of the SensorPanel window) into the SPZIP package at export, named preview.png That way the whole preview generation and management would be completely automatic. The drawback of such an automatic preview generation is that it would increase the SPZIP output file size. What do you guys think? If using the snapshot is going to cause an increase in the SPZIP file size, then I prefer to do it manually by adding a preview.jpg in the SensorPanel Manager and hiding it. If not, there's no point in using SPZIP. By adding the preview.jpg ourselves, we can manually set the preview file size we want, as long as the thumbnail is viewable. 5 hours ago, Fiery said: Right now you gotta either: a) Place the preview.png on your SensorPanel layout as a hidden image ...or... b) After exporting the layout into a SPZIP package, you gotta manually add the preview.png file to your SPZIP package using a ZIP archive tool So either way, it's a manual process. And if you import the SPZIP back, alter it, and export it again, the layout may become incompatible with the previously bundled preview.png (which is only retained if you go option "a" anyway). The whole proposed idea is about making that process hassle-free by automatically generating the preview.png image file as a screenshot of the SensorPanel, and placing it automatically in the SPZIP package at export. No need for further complicated options or changes. Option A is better✅, don't change it. Option B seems like a lot of work to me so definitely a no❌. 1 Quote
Fiery Posted Tuesday at 11:28 AM Author Posted Tuesday at 11:28 AM 23 hours ago, BHSY said: I got it after reading the above post. I set my preview.jpg as a hidden image in SensorPanel Manager. Thank you🙏. Is it possible to show a thumbnail preview when I want to export the file? What I mean is, after creating or saving a new SPZIP file with the preview.jpg or preview.png placed in the SensorPanel Manager, show a thumbnail preview under the "*.spzip already exist. Do you want to replace it?" when we want to overwrite the same file again, to make sure we overwrite the correct file. Below image is an example: Showing the preview at export has been implemented in the latest AIDA64 beta update available at: https://www.aida64.com/downloads/latesta64xebeta Quote
Fiery Posted Tuesday at 11:29 AM Author Posted Tuesday at 11:29 AM 10 hours ago, BHSY said: If using the snapshot is going to cause an increase in the SPZIP file size, then I prefer to do it manually by adding a preview.jpg in the SensorPanel Manager and hiding it. If not, there's no point in using SPZIP. By adding the preview.jpg ourselves, we can manually set the preview file size we want, as long as the thumbnail is viewable. No need for further complicated options or changes. Option A is better✅, don't change it. Option B seems like a lot of work to me so definitely a no❌. Alright, we kept it as Option A. Thank you guys for your feedback on this matter. 1 Quote
BHSY Posted Tuesday at 12:23 PM Posted Tuesday at 12:23 PM 55 minutes ago, Fiery said: Showing the preview at export has been implemented in the latest AIDA64 beta update available at: https://www.aida64.com/downloads/latesta64xebeta Oh WOW!😮 I did not expect the export preview thumbnail to be released so soon. I've tested it and it shows my thumbnail. Well done💪, Fiery, and thank you so much!🙏 Quote
Fiery Posted Tuesday at 12:25 PM Author Posted Tuesday at 12:25 PM Just now, BHSY said: Oh WOW!😮 I did not expect the export preview thumbnail to be released so soon. I've tested it and it shows my thumbnail. Well done💪, Fiery, and thank you so much!🙏 Thank you for your feedback 1 Quote
Surjeet Posted Tuesday at 01:33 PM Posted Tuesday at 01:33 PM 2 hours ago, Fiery said: Showing the preview at export has been implemented in the latest AIDA64 beta update available at: https://www.aida64.com/downloads/latesta64xebeta I just noticed the new feature - what an incredibly fast turnaround! I had only just taken a small nap, and when I woke up, it's already live. Truly impressive work! 😍 That said, we do have another request for your kind consideration. It seems we're getting a bit ambitious and GREEDY with our ideas day by day! 😄 Please review and let us know if this is doable and possible? Quote
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