Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Along with today’s release of 1.7, the site has been given a refresh.
Look forward to continued activity on my part.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
So long as no really annoying bugs are found in the next few days, today’s release will become 1.7 final.
I posted release candidate 2 an hour or so ago. Along with the various bug fixes, the window auto-resize logic was changed. With window auto-resize enabled SC makes the window conform to the displayed pages’ dimensions. Previously on every page turn the window would maximize itself constrained by screen and page size.
This was a bit problematic for a couple of reasons.
- User interface elements shifted position on every page turn unless the pages all had identical dimensions.
- If a user resized the window and then made a page turn the window changed back to its previous size.
Now SC only maximizes once, upon opening a comic. Afterwards the height and position of the window is completely under the user’s control. The right side of the window however will still fluctuate depending on the page size.
I am going to be re-designing the Simple Comic page with the release of 1.7. Part of the page content will be some tutorial screen casts. Here are three I just made.
Quicklook
Layout
Loupe
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
The Simple Comic 1.7 release candidate will be released tomorrow morning with final following in the next week or so.
2.0 should be interesting as I would like to try and cut SC to the bone and rethink some of the its basic interface elements.
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I am currently working on back porting quite a bit of 1.7 into the 1.6 branch. Solid archive support and some full screen interface elements are all that really need work now.
1.6.2 will be released once a few localizations are completed with 1.6.3+ being released as more hit my inbox.
Until recently Simple Comic has relied on hard paths to find files for its session restore system. With the advent of a more comprehensive bookmark manager I felt the need to look into a less fragile way of locating files. Simple Comic now uses BDAlias, which is a wrapper class for OS-X’s alias manager.
So what does this mean for the end user?
Archives can now be freely moved around in the filesystem and Simple Comic will still find them. Archives can even be renamed.
There is a slight architectural problem with loose images, so they still rely on hard paths. Though that too should be fixed in the near future.
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
I have begun active development of Simple Comic again.
Aside from some tweaking the only features I really want to add are a decent persistent bookmarking system and some nice Core Animation page transitions.
If anyone wants additional features post em’ here before SC reaches release candidate status.
EDIT: Just finished a basic implementation of the bookmarking system.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
Just to let folks know, the most recent beta of Simple Comic contains a Quick Look module that can now view cbr files. Make sure you delete the old cbz only QuickComic plugin from your library directory.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
I can see two glaring problems with QuickLook now that I have messed with it for a bit.
Firstly it is too easy to install conflicting generators and secondly keeping existing generators up to date is a PITA. I might throw together a plug-in manager to mitigate those omissions.
Here is a bit of Interface Builder Porn: