| Re: OK, discovered one thing I don't like about EdgeView... |
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On 2019-03-20 13:07:16 +0000, astrawebfan said:
> On 2019-03-20 09:04:02 +0000, Custer Beaton said:
>
>> I understood about five words of this but I appreciate your
>> thoroughness! The only thing I used to be able to do easily in Simple
>> Comic that I miss in EdgeView is see all the pages at once as
>> thumbnails with a simple keystroke (forget what it was now!) so you
>> could quickly navigate to one in particular. With Edgeview there's no
>> obvious way to do that within the program, but you can work around it
>> in the Finder. (I think that's what you were talking about!)
>>
>> Do I recall correctly that you posted a couple of CBZ/CBR droplets for
>> Mac here some time ago? I used to rely on it heavily, but Mojave broke
>> it. Thanks for making it in the first place, if it was you - it was a
>> lifesaver when I was cleaning up my collection.
>>
>> - CB
>
> Guys, I'm still using Simple Comic on Mojave and it's mainly working
> like it always did - including the cmd-T for full screen thumbnail
> views. The only bug I'm seeing is I must quit and reopen SC if I close
> any individual comic archive since I won't be able to open another
> until I do. Beside that, it appears to handle everything else just like
> it always did. What's your experience here?
>
> CB - my explanation of what symm said about EV: in Quick Look Preview
> mode, it only displays the archive as a comic if there's at least 10
> pages/images inside. Otherwise, it just shows a list of files. The
> developer offered no override to show everything as a comic, only one
> to show everything as a list of files. The developer is a very mean
> person. ;-)
The behaviour you describe is a showstopper for me as closing the last
comic doesn't quit the app. That and you then have to kill/force quit
the app as it just keeps spitting up error dialogs. (Hint: an Alfred
kill process workflow is quicker than ⌥⌘-Escape finger twister) :-)
That coupled with SC's silent fail mode for opening RARv5 or anything
else that doesn't go exactly right means I spend more time trying to
troubleshoot why a comic didn't open than I can tolerate.
There is a standard API call for quitting on last doc close and should
be a fairly trivial work-around. So I could fork SC (it's thankfully
open source), but there are too many other missing pieces for a modern
viewer to make it worthwhile. That and Apple's yearly spin on XCode
makes it a PIA to compile older projects on latter versions.
As much as I think about writing a native viewer, $5 was a no-brainer
for an almost-perfect-to-my-preferences (needs WebP support) modern
viewer.
BTW, for anyone who read my OS X firewall rant about unsigned apps and
has a similiar issue, adhoc app signing is a thing. I fixed it on my
son's iMac the day after the rant.
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