Opening images in preview

In Windows computers when you double click an image to open it, you can look through all the images that are in the folder with the image viewer. However with Preview on Macs when I open an image it only shows that one.The only way for me to click on an image and be able to cycle through all of them in preview is if I highlight all images by pressing (command + A) and that way I can view them together in one preview window. Now this would be alright, excep for the fact that command + A and clicking will open all files I will often open documents and things that I don't want open.
So basically what I want to know is:
Can preview be set so when you double click one image you can view all image in the folder with the image viewe
Change the default image viewer if neccessary
Is what I am asking possible on Macs?

Well. Interesting results to report. In short, it doesn't work as I need it to, but shows promise.
1) If I drop an image file on the target folder, it usually opens in Preview. If I drop another, Preview quickly closes, re-opens, and shows the new image. But in a test, one image in six consistently would not appear in Preview...right away. As much as 4-6 minutes later, the image might suddenly appear, along with others that failed to appear right away. Note: these images are jpegs of 200+ to 700kb in size.
2) Something in the script is causing Preview to close every few minutes, then re-open, showing the same group of images. This happens without an image having just been added to the target folder.
3) Both (1) and (2) suggest that the mechanism that loads these images into Preview is not actually responding to the added file, but only checks every so often to see if anything new has shown up.
4) When I test the process using a digital camera and the EyeFi card, the results are worse: although the image file appears in the target folder within 3-5 seconds of being shot, it never opens in Preview right away, which makes the process unusable. In order to serve my purposes, it needs to appear in Preview within a couple of seconds of hitting the target folder. The image will not appear for at least 4 to 8 minutes of being added to the target folder.
This seems to be a harder goal to achieve than I had expected. Perhaps Preview is a poor application to use, but iPhoto was even less workable, last time I looked.
My instinct is that the script Pierre L. provided is awfully close to successful, but something is not allowing it to do what I need. Are there any users of EyeFi cards out there who can comment?

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