can we display the full filename and path in windows title ?

[Michael REMY]

As you can see PSP2018 does in fact show file types.

2018_ext.JPG

You can prove to yourself what LeviFiction and others have stated by making the change to Windows Explorer and then launching PSP and loading some images.

in your exemple, we can see the icon remain the same whereas the format is different.
At least, PSP should adapt the icon to the format !
If the icon in the window bar of each image is the same, what is its utility ?

[hartpaul]

because the extension is already displayed in the icon ! so, i don't need to extend the column by adding duplicate information !

Lets be sure we are talking about the same icons.

Windows calls these Icons whereas I call them thumbnails

Is this what you are talking about when you say the extension .JPG is a duplication and extends the column?

Or this when you ask windows to show details:

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Here all my normal graphics files are associated with Irfanview so png, gif, tif, bmp, and jpg will all show the same icon.
Now is this what you are referring to in your other quote - about icons remaining the same whereas the file type is different and you are requesting that PSP adapt itself to show the extension type.

in your exemple, we can see the icon remain the same whereas the format is different.
At least, PSP should adapt the icon to the format !
If the icon in the window bar of each image is the same, what is its utility ?

The utility of having the icon the same is that it shows what program can or will open that file - it does not identify the file type - jpg, gif, png etc. That is what the extension is for and needed,

Now as for showing the extension in PSP that really shows the source file that produced the PSP image that you see.

When in memory all images are bit mapped files with red, green and blue and possibly an alpha transparency channel if not a Background image

So an image that you load from a jpg source > Bitmapped image in memory and when you save it it can become > .pspimage, .jpg, .bmp, .tif on disk.
So you decide what any bitmapped image can become by changing the image - reducing the number of colors when you save it as a gif, converting to a greyscale image etc.
So if you loaded a bmp image and then saved it as a jpg, you could also load that pg and save it as a tif. It is all very malleable and possibly makes your original complaint totally redundant.

[Michael REMY]

in windows explorer, i choose to associate an icon to each extension (windows feature since...almost windows 95 i think and still available in win10), so i don't need to display the .ext .
, so i got this :

windows explorer with icon by format

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in PSP, the icon in the title bar still the same (a camera) whereas the format change :

in PSP, the icon in the title bar still the same (a camera) whereas th format change.

[hartpaul]

That icon I suspect is associated with a particular program.
With just that explorer folder open what happens when you double click a jpg image and what happens when you double click the png image. What program do those images open in (Are associated with?)
I have seen that form of icon, but have forgotten where I have seen it before. I want to try and duplicate what you have first.

[Ken Berry]

I have seen that form of icon, but have forgotten where I have seen it before.

If you are talking about that blue icon the green arrow is pointing at in Michael's second image, is it not the PSP icon??

[hartpaul]

No I mean the green jpg icon and the red PNG icon that he has alluded to as being enough that he does not need the extension to show.
They are associated with some program that opens when he double ckicks the image and it is not PSP

Ahhh worked it out - they are associated with ACDSee and open in ACDSee Quickview.

Not every program adds the file format type there . ASCSee does so that is why he has removed the file extension which I see as a possible security risk as you could double click on a file that runs some program which changes your computer.
If he wants the jpg to show the extension in PSP then he must make them bisible in Windows explorer.