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|pixelComic 1.26 [14/09/2003]
|Author: Mathieu Pellerin (pixelcomic@deskmod.com)
| or (nirvn@hotmail.com)
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FEATURES:
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* Zoom control over your pages;
* Flip those upside down pages;
* Nice keyboard shortcuts to make things much more faster;
* Multiple Instance supported;
* Supports ZIP and RAR decompression;
* Supports directory viewing;
* File association of .BDz, .cbz, .cbr;
* Very powerful skinning engine;
* Fullscreen support;
* Basic color normalisation;
* Much, much more...
SHORTCUTS:
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a - Opens the File selection dialog
s - Opens the BDz information dialog
d - Opens the Preferences dialog
z - Go one page back
x - Go to the next page
c - Opens the Jump to dialog
LEFT \
UP \ Moves your visible page
RIGHT / (just like moving with your mouse)
DOWN /
INFORMATION:
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.o. ????????.BDz:
BDz files are simply .zip files renamed to .bdz for file association
purpose. It can contain PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP images that will be
alphabeticaly sorted and shown in that order. It can also contain
an info.BDi file which can hold up useful informations about the
current BDZ opened.
.o. info.BDi:
It's working just like an ini file.You simply use that classic syntax:
myinfoname=myinformation
title=houses of fools
You can add any name & value you can think of depending of what
you are releasing (e.g. you wont add the same information if you're
releasing a cd cover book, a comic book or a magasine)
.o. Creating BDz Files:
1) Put all your images scanned/drawn in a directory;
 2) Name them remembering the application will sort them alphabeticaly;
3) Add an info.BDi file and fill it with useful stuff;
4) Zip the images & info.bdi into one zip file;
5) Rename it to .BDz and your done with it.
FAQ:
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Q. Gosh, Your faq is small!
A. Yes
HISTORY:
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1.26
+ Added basic color normalisation (thanks to sources of the gimp)
+ Added contrast settings (thanks again to gimp)
+ Added Mousewheel change pages
+ You can now toggle fullscreen with a mouse action
+ Recoded the stretched view, it's now blasing fast
+ Added new buttons to the default skin, enlarged the display area
+ Added some button actions that were missing (menu, stretch)
+ Right-click on the open button will show up the open submenu
+ Double-Click in skin list will load the selected skin now
+ New compiler (vc7.1), noticable speed up
! Fixed a crash with drag'n drop (thanks PO-8)
! Some jpegs that weren't loading will show up now
(thanks to the guy doing the corona lib)
o Fixed potential memory overload with my custom lists class
o Fixed potential memory overload with my ini class
o Fixed the display area not resizing on skin reload
-> Be sure to check out the Power Default skin from Swamp, it
would have been the new default skin if we could have had more
time before my trip <-
1.25
+ Added Multiple book detection within one compressed file
* it will detect and list multiple directories, not multiple
compressed files within another, that is something we should
all try to avoid if we want to save kbs. Very good for people with
low hd resource since it will uncompress only the _desired_ files
(loading faster too)
+ Added smooth scrolling with mousewheel
* you can disable it in the general panel anytime
o 'Open a file' can now open a directory
* Selecting one image in the directory will make it load
the whole directory and show the first sorted page
o 'Open a directory' will now remember its last location
o Tweaked stuff for more intelligent memory management
1.22
+ Added 'open book from last session'
+ Tweaked main menu for opening stuff
+ Added the missing keyboard shortcut to activate/desactivate the flipped view
o updated français.dll to 1.22
1.21
+ Added drag'n drop support (directories & compressed books)
 + Added custom icons for the new mouse navigation system
o Fixed slider showing random position
o Fixed the book name that could be cut when opening in an explorer window
1.2
+ Added internationalisation support [eng,fr,port,germ]
* still no unicode though, sorry
* Added mouse & keyboard hotkeys customization
* Added 'move to end of page' and 'move to top of page' hotkey
+ Added Flipped View
+ Added slider in the 'Jump to...' dialog
+ Added more options
o Fixed billions of bugs:
* now compiled under vc6sp5 (used vc6sp0 before)
* you can now minimise using taskbar (duh)
* init class will now alloc correct mem size (re-duh)
* switched the opening routine of zip compressed files,
fixes some error msg (now using fstream)
* much more, but I can't remember
o Remodeled the general panel in options (thanks to Mushashi)
1.15
+ Added 'Stretched view' options
+ Added 'Toggle view' menu item that will switch between normal & stretched vie
w
+ Added Halftone options for zoom and stretched view (WinXP,2k,2k3 only)
+ Added ctrl+left click to main window will make it move wherever you click
+ Added a new way of moving the page (go in pref->general to move back to the o
ld one)
o The name of the book your viewing will show next to Page: X/Y
o Fixed a tiny minor display problem with folder's name in info
o Other stuff too, can't remember
1.1
+ Preferences window done
* File Association settings
* Mousewheel settings (zoom or move)
* Display settings
+ RAR decompression support done
+ Support for non-compressed directory
+ Little mouse icon to identify the resizing region
+ New open box dialog filters, much more logical now
+ Middle clicking & Double left click will now go one page up and one page down
+ Stretch page to viewing area by holding down left button then adding the righ
t button
+ Added stuff to the right click menu
+ Added stuff in the info box (file name, page number)
!! Fixed a catastrophic bug that would crash pixelComic after a little while !!
!! affecting mainly users on high screen resolutions. I hope it didn't !!
!! scare alot of people !!
!! Thanks to Ryan for reporting and testing various versions while I was !!
!! seeking for the problem. !!
o Updated corona lib to 1.0.1 (http://corona.sf.net)
o Fixed the resizing method a bit, it works better when you come close to scree
n edges
o Fixed a problem with skins listing & NTFS formatted disks
o Fixed tons of little bugs here and there
1.0
- Initital public release.