| Re: OK, discovered one thing I don't like about EdgeView... |
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| astrawebfan (astra@web.fan) |
2019/03/20 16:05 |
On 2019-03-20 21:46:15 +0000, astrawebfan said:
> On 2019-03-20 14:36:49 +0000, symm said:
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>> On 2019-03-20 13:07:16 +0000, astrawebfan said:
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>>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>
> Guys, I found this version of Simple Comic 1.7.1 (253) updated by a fan
> in 2017.
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> https://github.com/arauchfuss/Simple-Comic/issues/114
>
> Looks like it fixes the bug I described above but it was never
> officially compiled and released. PSiAU was nice enough to do the dirty
> work and share. I'm a happy camper
Someone is still tweaking the code too, just no more official releases.
https://github.com/arauchfuss/Simple-Comic/pull/119
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