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 [...]
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.
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:
I did a quick edit to my QuickLook plug-in to make it work with cbz files exclusively.
For those that don’t know, cbz is an extension used to identify comic zip files. This change allows users to install other zip QuickLook plugins without worrying about conflicts.
The new version can be downloaded here: Link
Users of Simple Comic should probably [...]
Well I neglected to post a blog entry for the release of 1.6. So this one will have to suffice for 1.6 and 1.6.1.
In any case here it is.Download 1.6.1
The localizers really knocked themselves out getting all the changes I made in 1.6 translated for 1.6.1. A round of applause for all of them.
If you [...]
To get used to the QuickLook plug-in architecture I did what everyone seems to be doing. Namely write a zip inspection module. The mysterious and prolific Hetima has already created one which is available here.
So anyway my plugin uses Hetima’s unzip framework to inspect the contents of any given zip/cbz, ignoring everything but [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]