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Comment on Here is where to get CDisplay by ^O^

^O^ — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:36:50 +0000

Well, the point is ComicRack is NOT a CDisplay clone. Can’t really blame it for not imitating CDisplay of of the box.

Yet, with little configuration, and that’s only one-time effort, it let’s you behave a lot like CDisplay. Assign same hotkeys, same fullscreen behavior, etc.

You can drag&drop file or open from explorer, whatever you like. CR supports tab browsing so you can view many files at the same time and it remembers position at which you stopped reading next time you open file.

Database is just great. You can scrap info about comics from ComicVine and then filter, sort and search with whatever criteria you can think of. And you can share your library or part of it over Internet with someone else or to read on second computer for example.

There is batch export & convert tool.

Yes, startup is longer but that’s understandable, considering number of features. It’s meant to reside in tray, rather than run each time you open file.

As for RSS – it’s there just for checking news of new version and you can disable it.

But the most important advantage of ComicRack over any other comic software – large and active user base (forum) and systematic updates (developer actually supports and listens to the community).

I liked CDisplay back in mid 2000’s, but hey – half of decade passed… Gotta move on. ;)

Comment on Here is where to get CDisplay by GrymRpr

GrymRpr — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:14:42 +0000

Psssssssssssssst…..
Try Comical: http://comical.sourceforge.net/

Comment on Hidden resources in Microsoft Game Room by Bill

Bill — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:42:53 +0000

Maybe the clone-trooper image accidentally found it’s way in from the Republic Heroes team?

Hot coffee time…

Comment on Hidden resources in Microsoft Game Room by No

No — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:30:14 +0000

This is a stray image.

Comment on Hidden resources in Microsoft Game Room by Resource File Might Hint At Future Plans For Xbox Game Room | Kotaku Australia

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:45:04 +0000

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Comment on Here is where to get CDisplay by Blind

Blind — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:56:09 +0000

So my choices consist of:
1) CDisplay, which just works and does exactly what i want (view comics/sequential images) and does it without real issue (don’t need to configure it really)

2) ComicRack, which doesn’t play nice when I open comics outside of it (sometimes I open from explorer, sometimes I open from other programs. Rarely do i open from the viewer) and requires elaborate customizing from the get go to just get to work like CDisplay? Not to mention the other “features” which I wouldn’t want either? (Why the fuck do i want a RSS reader in my image viewer?)

Comment on Star Wars toast by Greymarch

Greymarch — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:52:42 +0000

I know this is old, but…. DAMN..

Comment on Digital Comic Downloader discontinued by techknight

techknight — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:57:29 +0000

I’ve hardly worked on the online viewer at all, unfortunately. I was busy with work for a while and then the authentication scheme changed on Marvel’s side and I sort of lost interest.

If you’d like to paste some code for people to look at though, you could use http://pastebin.com/

Comment on Digital Comic Downloader discontinued by Zuncl

Zuncl — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:34:37 +0000

sorry, I can not paste html code

Comment on Digital Comic Downloader discontinued by Zuncl

Zuncl — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:31:45 +0000

Good day. I beg your pardon for the bad English. text was translated into an automatic translator of Google. I want to talk to you about viewing comics from marvel.com On the ability to view comics in full and save them to disk, I learned much earlier than read your blog. I will not describe in detail how I kept the files on the hard drive of your computer, but I'll see them. perhaps it will be useful. Me was to write simple HTML code to read: ---- просмотр комиксов jpg+swf ----etsetera--- ============= Now let dam you one question: How is the work of writing online comic viewer?

Comment on Here is where to get CDisplay by solano

solano — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:27:21 +0000

ComicRack is a little bigger yes :)

The idea is not to start ComicRack for each comic from explorer but to browse the comics from within ComicRack.

About the remarks:
RSS feed is only checked once a day or so
One click into the viewer and the file browser is gone
Double click into the viewer and you have full screen mode.
Of course this is and everything else is highly customizable (even the default window placings, startup fullscreen mode etc.)

Comment on Here is where to get CDisplay by techknight

techknight — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:03:40 +0000

I gave ComicRack a try just now.. The library feature is interesting but the whole thing seems slow and overdesigned to me.

I’ll give an example – if I start CDisplay, it is ready to read a book in under a second and in a full-screen mode by default. (No UI visible unless you right-click or switch to windowed mode.)

If I start ComicRack, it takes several seconds to load and then checks an RSS feed for news and displays it to me. Then, when all that is said and done the default reading mode doesn’t give a lot of screen real estate to the actual comic. And there doesn’t seem to be a true full-screen mode.

That’s my take on it, anyway… Some people might consider the indexing and metadata stuff to be must-have features.

Comment on Here is where to get CDisplay by solano

solano — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:32:27 +0000

CDisplay has been not developed for years. People should move on. There are now much better alternatives available like ComicRack ( http://comicrack.cyolito.com )

Comment on Taiko no Tatsujin Portable menu guide by Carmina

Carmina — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:30:18 +0000

thanks for the translation!

Comment on Cannon III by Games, Life, and Stuff » Game Release: Cannon Zero

Games, Life, and Stuff » Game Release: Cannon Zero — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 03:34:22 +0000

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