Silverlight based Comic Reader

[Yoc]

Gee, you were right John!  Thanks.
CRM's app isn't bad at all so far.  Images look nice though I don't see any colour controls like CDisplay offers which has always been a feature I liked about CDisplay.

A couple of early bugs he sorted fast and now I only get those errors messages if I try to use the mouse click for zooming off of the actual pages.  His page turning animation looks fantastic, one only needs a sound fx to make the illusion complete.  That and some fingers on the edges as they turn!  

[jfglade]

 This may as well be the Wyoming State motto: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."

[comicreadermobi]

I went ahead and added a screenshot showing what it would look like

[Geo (RIP)]

This is the problem I get with a Mac, see screen shot below, as I change pages:

http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/9317/screen2ju.jpg

It sound like it's looking for "Silverlight" on the Mac and it's not there.
It shows this error message, then the page does show after a short delay.

Just thought you'd like to know what it does on a Mac, I'm running OSX version 10.6.8.
Haven't taken the leap to OSX 10.7 because I have some software that will not work with it, and won't update till it's been updated for OSX 10.7 so I can still scan. So maybe someone else is running OSX 10.7 can tell how this works for them.

Geo

[comicreadermobi]

thanks, I think I know what the problem is. I'll see if I can get it fixed

[comicreadermobi]

should be better now

[Yoc]

I'm getting this set of messages when I click the mouse anywhere off of a comic page.  That's the only big bug I've seen so far with the PC/laptop.

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Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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   at CRM.Core.UI.Paging.PageManager.OnTouchesDown(TouchEvent e)

   at CRM.Core.UI.Manager.TouchManager.handler_TouchesBegan(Touch[] touches)

   at CRM.BaseForm.OnMouseDown(MouseEventArgs e)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseDown(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

[Yoc]

Hi CRM,
I tried CRM3.1 on a file that contained a .txt file.  The app showed the scans but didn't read the .txt.
There are many files on DCM that contain such files to convey information about the scanner and the book.

Would it be possible to show the txt files from within your app?  It's a feature that CDisplay does that I've always appreciated.  I add .txt files for each issue to almost all of my own scan collection.

Take care,
-Yoc

[comicreadermobi]

I'm still trying to track down the click bug. Did you get any of my email replies?

As far as the txt thing, eventually I would like to, but its not something I can do in the immediate future.The downside of multiplatform code is you lose nice things like word wrapping

[comicreadermobi]

I managed to fix the click bug. Check your email

[Yoc]

Got your email and replying.  Mouse click bug is now gone, thanks!

[Yoc]

I've been using this app for a while now and enjoying it for the most part.
The only disappointment I've had is that the LENS feature for magnifying a page section does not move with your mouse as you read a page.  I love that you can set the size of your box but having to turn it off and on as you move down a page is tricky and unpleasant when you don't have to with CDisplay.

I hope CRM can someday offer the option of having the len follow your mouse.  Otherwise I'm enjoying the app a lot.

-Yoc