Eclipse File Associations: displaying images

Question

I am developing some help documentation in a Java project in Eclipse. In the resources folder there are my HTML pages and a couple of GIF and PNG images that will be displayed inside the HTML.

Now for my convenience I want to preview the images in the file structure of the project, to see what they show and which one to include in the HTML page. If I double-click an image, the default action that Eclipse does is: it opens it in Internet Explorer. Since I don't like IE, I want to change this default action. What I would prefer actually is that it opens some image viewer of some kind inside Eclipse.

I know this is a matter of file associations. However I was not able to get it working.

What I tried to do so far:

As an example I did it for *.gif.

I went to Preferences -> General -> Editors -> File Associations. There I pressed "Add..." and added *.gif.

Then I pressed "Add..." at the Associated Editors section and added an external gif viewer:

I expected this to open the default image viewing program from my Windows system, but for some reason it still opens it in Internet Explorer.

So what can I do to change this? Does Eclipse have an internal image viewer of some kind?

Answer 1

Why not just install plugin for viewing images

http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/quickimage -> http://psnet.nu/c/quickimage

Sources https://github.com/persal/quickimage