Comics!
  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    rebraist
    Posts: 96 from 2011/4/6
    From: Naples, Italy
    Comics! is the first (and for now) unique CBR/CBZ-jpg/png comic book reader on Amigoid Platforms. It's already avilable for Aros, and I've started a port to morphos; soon I'll start os4 port.
    It's totally MUI/ZUNE based, totally amiga, originally written with a notepad and a gcc compiler on aros, now I'm using scribble and gcc. There's no nix/windows/osx libraries, it uses datatypes to open and handle images.
    You can navigate through pages with mouse and keyboard and rotate, resize the pages to better view on netbooks.
    I put comics! on wikipedia:
    http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_archive
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_archive
    Morphos version is not available for the download, but as mos version gets more bugless i'll make it available.
    Thx!

    http://www.amigan.net/index.php/blog/comics/

    Some images from morphos (3.5) version!
    Comic Images are copyright of DC Comics.


    qea4.jpg

    7g0f.jpg
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  • Jim
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    Jim
    Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
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    I like this!
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    xyphoid
    Posts: 870 from 2008/7/11
    From: Delaware, USA
    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=9&topic_id=6383&post_id=64444&viewmode=flat&sortorder=0&showonepost=1

    Had this link a whiles back. Good to see a dedicated program, in addition to ambient and showgirls
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    klesterjr
    Posts: 196 from 2005/4/1
    Cool idea!
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    tolkien
    Posts: 502 from 2013/5/29
    Looks good. Thanks!
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  • Butterfly
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    Tomo
    Posts: 92 from 2003/7/29
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    I'm looking forward. Until now I've to unrar the .cbr-files to read the comics but that won't then be nessacery anymore.

    Regards, Tom
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    rebraist
    Posts: 96 from 2011/4/6
    From: Naples, Italy
    Hi! This day I can say comics! Is usable, but I'd like to Know if there's a better func than BitmapScale to obtain a better quality of the scaled image. I use data type to open my image. Thx
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    XDelusion
    Posts: 602 from 2010/10/27
    Glad to see this coming to MorphOS, no OS is complete without a Comic viewer.
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  • vox
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    vox
    Posts: 524 from 2003/11/25
    From: Belgrade
    Quote:

    rebraist wrote:
    Comics! is the first (and for now) unique CBR/CBZ-jpg/png comic book reader on Amigoid Platforms. It's already avilable for Aros, and I've started a port to morphos; soon I'll start os4 port.
    It's totally MUI/ZUNE based, totally amiga, originally written with a notepad and a gcc compiler on aros, now I'm using scribble and gcc. There's no nix/windows/osx libraries, it uses datatypes to open and handle images.
    You can navigate through pages with mouse and keyboard and rotate, resize the pages to better view on netbooks.
    I put comics! on wikipedia:
    http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_archive
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_archive
    Morphos version is not available for the download, but as mos version gets more bugless i'll make it available.
    Thx!

    http://www.amigan.net/index.php/blog/comics/

    Some images from morphos (3.5) version!
    Comic Images are copyright of DC Comics.


    qea4.jpg

    7g0f.jpg


    Oh yes, finally da CBR! Thanks. Where to donate?
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    Yasu
    Posts: 1724 from 2012/3/22
    From: Stockholm, Sweden
    Will there be a button to rotate pictures?
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    rebraist
    Posts: 96 from 2011/4/6
    From: Naples, Italy
    @vox: thx! but let's wait at least i release an exe! there's always time to donate, enjoy it first! thk you!

    @yasu:
    Actually rotate works by menu, but a button it's not a problem.
    I have to rewrite some parts in morphos: in aros i controlled nearly everything with some hotspots directly on the canvas: i.e. to go to next page i clicked on the right side of the page (near the border). In morphos this doesn't work, so I think i have to take a little care on this.
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  • »03.03.14 - 11:47
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    jollyjoker
    Posts: 6 from 2011/5/11
    This looks realy great. I'm looking forward to it.

    I have a suggestion for the Zoom Options. It would be great if there would be the option for "Fit width". I use that option on Linux a lot.

    Thanks
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    rebraist
    Posts: 96 from 2011/4/6
    From: Naples, Italy
    @jollyjoker:
    Hi! There's already an option i called "adapt" in the zoom menu and it (seems to) work. It's not fully tested (I've written it for aros just some days before porting app to morphos) but it tries to adapt to screen resolution to best fit :)
    Tonight i'll upload the exe so if there's someone brave enough to betatest we'll go faster!
    Thx!
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    rebraist
    Posts: 96 from 2011/4/6
    From: Naples, Italy
    Here it is. Download it, but: it's beta/alpha sw, so if you want to download it, it's mainly for bug reporting.
    Thx!
    http://www.sendspace.com/file/gic440
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    XDelusion
    Posts: 602 from 2010/10/27
    I might as well make good use of this P.O.S. Efika while I've still got it.

    To begin, I opened "Comics!" and then closed it to see what would happen. It produced these errors:

    No information for "ram:t/tempcbr": object not found
    list failed returncode 20
    No file to delete
    No information for "ram:t/comic.script": object not found
    list failed returncode 20
    No file to delete
    No information for "ram:t/deleteraw.script": object not found
    list failed returncode 20
    No file to delete
    No information for "ram:t/deletefiles.script": object not found
    list failed returncode 20
    No file to delete
    No information for "ram:t/extractpges.script": object not found
    list failed returncode 20
    No file to delete
    No information for "ram:t/listzip.script": object not found
    list failed returncode 20
    No file to delete



    I then tried to load up a CBR and...

    ...nothing is happening. My Video RAM went up about 2Mb and is staying there. Fast RAM (or what ever we call it these days) is holding where it was. CPU didn't move a pinch.

    I'll have to try some more files, but that's what I got thus far. Glad to see that you are working on a MorphOS port, a major relief for me personally as it's one of my favorite OS', now to just get better hardware.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    xyphoid
    Posts: 870 from 2008/7/11
    From: Delaware, USA
    works for me on my macmini1.5 only though the shrunk the display instead of expanding to fit. Nice work man. Viewed x-men vs avengers
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
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    Posts: 96 from 2011/4/6
    From: Naples, Italy
    Thk you both! I'll enable a more complete debug window to understand why it doent open anyrhing on efika: btw could you try unrar and unzip cmd from cli? Thx
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    Jambalah
    Posts: 820 from 2008/3/30
    From: Roma, Italy
    First of all, thanks for this program! Really nice to see this as I'm a comics eater. Well... when life offers me a chance to be it!
    Then I tried a CBZ file and it works nice. I only have found these (bug?):
    when I change window size and go to another page window switches to previous size.
    Fullscreen seems not to work, nothing happens.
    I tried "adapt to screen" and it makes program to hang ramping cpu to 100% (it's happened one time).
    Keep up good work, man!
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  • Just looking around
    jollyjoker
    Posts: 6 from 2011/5/11
    I downloaded and testet your program. It looks nice and I realy would like to use the final version.

    I found the following problems

    - Fullscreen doesn't work
    - When I click on "adapt to screen" the program crashes

    I also have recommendations for 2 little but helpful features.
    1. Hotkeys for "Next Page" and "Previous Page": Maybe "CMD + LEFT/RIGHT"

    2. Zoomoption for "fit width": Adapt to screen is nice but in generally it means "adapt height" because the most screens are widescreen. So the result is that the text in the comic is to small to read on some displays. Especially on Notebooks.
  • »07.03.14 - 14:49
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  • Butterfly
    Butterfly
    rebraist
    Posts: 96 from 2011/4/6
    From: Naples, Italy
    Hi! For hotkeys try Space and backspace. They should already work :) thx
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  • Just looking around
    jollyjoker
    Posts: 6 from 2011/5/11
    Hi,

    are you still working on this program? That would be realy great.

    Greetings from Germany
    Ben
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    MikeBrantley
    Posts: 4 from 2010/8/8
    How's it going? Looking forward to using your comics reader. Is there a test version for MOS still available? Any progress on an AmigaOS version? Thanks!
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
    tolkien
    Posts: 502 from 2013/5/29
    Hiz! Is there a site where I can download his? Any further development?
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    tolkien
    Posts: 502 from 2013/5/29
    Hiz! Is there a site where I can download his? Any further development?
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  • Cocoon
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    rlitt01
    Posts: 43 from 2015/7/25
    From: Washington D.C.
    Is there any update with this comic reader? I see there is a x86 port of this on the dev website. But what about ppc-morphos?
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