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On 2019-03-20 22:05:48 +0000, astrawebfan said:
> On 2019-03-20 21:46:15 +0000, astrawebfan said:
>
>> On 2019-03-20 14:36:49 +0000, symm said:
>>
>>> On 2019-03-20 13:07:16 +0000, astrawebfan said:
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> 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
Yep, those forks I'm aware of (or was tracking up until a couple of
years ago). arauchfuss, the orginal developer even came back and
posted new commits a couple of years ago after a 6+ year hiatus, but it
was short lived and didn't not add up to a new release.
It stinks that it was people taking his code and posting to the App
store for profit that was a major contirbutor to his dropping out IIRC.
Nice find on the 2017 release, I haven't tested yet but do you know if
it has a fixed xadmaster (archive library used to dearchive the
images)? That was another major issue in SC both the last offical
release (the xadmaster so was so out of date it didn't support newer
RAR formats and had bugs) and some of the forks (newer xadmaster was
super buggy, completely broke RAR I think). That coupled with the
silent_fail_on_open = joy (not!).
As much as I loved SC, there were several factors that finally drove me away.
Still, thanks for the find. Options are always good. Maybe someone will
continue to update it.
P.S. Another thing about the new forks was the persistent fully opaque
"status bar" (progress meter) at the the bottom of the screen. In full
screen mode it was distracting and a waste of vertical space (which was
already at a premium). You can turn it off via menu or key binding but
it doesn't reappear as needed like the old progress panel or virtually
all of the more modern viewers. Not a fan. :-)
P.P.S. A quick test opened both a cbz and a cbr file (really ZIP & RAR
per CAT), so maybe fixed? The macPaw guys bought The Archive Browser
and The Unarchiver from the developer did xadmaster (which was used in
both apps), I don't think they've released any updated code since. So
all new code is free as in beer, not source. Weakens a lot of apps that
rely on xadmaster. I saw a good deal of effort on ZipKit and a
correspondig rar library (RarKit?) back around that time.
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