Monthly Archives: October 2007

Ubuntu and the Gutsy Gibbon

During the Apple dark years , OS 8 till OS X, I was a Linux and Windows user.  Mainly Linux.  Upon the arrival of  OS 10.2 I gratefully came back into the fold.  So it has been about five or so years since I have messed about with Linux.  On the whole the experience was [...]

Simple Comic 1.5.3 out

Okay 1.5.3 is out now.Full disclosure I screwed up the localizations and have been doing so for some time by the looks of things. The strings where properly localized by the fine folks who volunteered their time but I neglected to give them enough room in their respective text fields, resulting in clipping. [...]

Repository and issue tracker for Simple Comic

I just created a Google code project for Simple Comic. I realize that better solutions exist, namely trac, but I don’t want to have to hassle with configuring all that jive.
From my few minutes of using it the interface appears quite adequate. The configurable tag auto-completetion seems especially handy.
In any case the advent [...]

Comic Icon 0.2.4 and Source

Here is the most current version of Comic Icon. My little comic archive skinning app. Also it appears that I never released the source for it previously.
Comic Icon 0.2.4

Source

Simple Comic 1.5.2 source

I forgot to post this.
Source Dump

Thumbnail building

Scott Stevenson showed off one way to go about creating a proportionately scaled image. I decided to clean up Simple Comic’s thumbnail creation code and post it. It is a little more in line with what some of the comments suggested, in that it breaks the method up into several chunks.

NSSize scaleSize(NSSize [...]