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Silverlight based Comic Reader
comicreadermobi:
Hi there! I originally made a post at GoldenAgeComics, and they mentioned your site, so I thought I'd talk to you guys too.
I made a silverlight version of my app to let people try it out before buying it, but I realised that with a little bit of extra effort, I could modify it to allow any website to use it to display their own comics! You know, get a little more awareness for my program, and make the world of online comic reading a whole lot better in one fell swoop :p
To give you an idea of how it works,
Instead of looking like this:
http://digitalcomicmuseum.com/preview/index.php?did=16078
It would look like this:
http://comicreader.mobi/CRM3/Baffling.html
Its completely free for you to use, and you don't even have to sign up to put it on your site. You can just go here:
http://comicreader.mobi/OnlineReader.aspx
and fill out the info to get an embed tag on the fly.
I'm really excited about the possibilities, and I want to make it happen. So if theres something I can do to make the process a little easier, or a little better, let me know, and I'll be glad to help :)
Yoc:
GAC could use a working preview feature.
CRM didn't mention one has to install Microsoft's Silverlight for this to work.
I'm quite happy with our current Preview feature so I wont be trying it but thanks for sharing CRM.
Anyone else that tries it please let us know what you think.
comicreadermobi:
were you not able to try it because you didn't have silverlight installed? Because it is worth giving it a shot.
The program lets you do true full screen, caches the next page, and even lets you zoom in on specific sections. Plus you can use the arrow keys, spacebar, and even the mousewheel to change pages.
In short, it makes the experience just as good, if not better than if you had downloaded the comic and loaded it up in your own reader :)
Plus its not hard to format the embed tag in a way that falls back on the web version if silverlight is not available.
Eager to hear your thoughts :)
Yoc:
I'm a FireFox person CRM, I stay away from MS as much as I can.
Your features do sounds pretty nice. GL with the app.
:)
Yoc:
CRM was nice enough to give me a copy of his reader that wouldn't need Silverlight to run it.
I downloaded it, checked I had the required .Net 2.0 or higher and tried it.
I got several error messages which I figured was easier to take a screen shot of than type them all out.
So CBR - here's what I saw if you had any advice-
http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/9856/comicreadermobi300winxp.jpg
Oh where it says "Finish other layer first!" it actually said "Unable to find entry point 'glGenFramebuffersEXT' in DLL 'opengl32.dll'.
I'm running WinXP Pro sp3 on a very old Dell Latitude D800 if that helps.
Thanks for your efforts CRM.
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