February 11th, 2011· Added: Language definition attribute. Default is English.
· Fixed: Exception due to BiQubic.Update and/or BiQubic.Pique at startup.
· Fixed: Minor interface colour issue with the Welcome screen when in full-screen mode.
· Fixed: Suggest Comic was truncating comments if they contained an apostrophe.
· Other: If PublisherUrl is not present, LastestComicUrl will be used instead.
· Other: Updated Pique.
February 2nd, 2011· Other: Comical has now been renamed to Comica.
· Added: Suggest Comic item to the Comics menu.
· Added: "Downloaded, Unread" + "New Available" icon states.
· Added: ViewNextNewComic now takes downloaded but unread comics into account.
· Added: Zoom controls to the nav bar. Set ShowZoomControls in Settings to True to enable.
· Other: Genre definition attribute is now an enumeration value.
· Other: Minor changes and additions.
October 26th, 2010· Added: Preliminary support for comic image zooming.
· Added: "Downloaded, Unread" comic item state.
· Fixed: UpdateCheckType in Settings - Network.
· Fixed: Archive Browser was still appearing if Comical is set to start hidden.
· Other: It is now possible to download a comic while viewing another.
· Other: A large amount of fixes and improvements.
· Other: Updated Pique.
October 11th, 2010· Added: Browsing a comic's archived strips direct from its website.
· Added: An entirely new Archive Browser.
· Added: Customised sorting.
· Added: Bookmarking, accessible via the new Archive Browser.
· Added: Catch-Up to the Comics menu.
· Added: Download All Unread to the Comics menu.
· Added: Rotate to the Edit menu.
· Added: ScheduledDownloading to the Network section in the Settings window.
· Added: UpdateCheckType to the Network section in the Settings window.
· Added: Keyboard accelerators to the main window's menu.
· Fixed: Exception when marking many comics as read.
· Fixed: Rare exception to do with drawing the categories drop-down menu.
· Other: Moved the download indicator to its own compact frame.
· Other: Improvements to the Html parsing core.
· Other: Optimisations to the archive viewing process.
· Other: Numerous minor changes.
· Other: Now requires Microsoft .NET 4.
July 24th, 2010· Added: Report As item to the comics list context menu.
· Other: Read Next New Comic now starts from the current comic and wraps around.
· Other: Downloading an existing comic will now mark it as read if it's marked as unread.
· Other: Improved all comic list favourite icons.
· Other: Alt-Text entries within the developer's log are now properly URL decoded.
July 12th, 2010· Added: Support for animated comic images.
· Added: Context menu to the alt-text banner underneath any alt-text enabled comics.
· Fixed: Crash in the Developer's Log when using ComicImageIndex with an invalid return image.
May 7th, 2010· Fixed: Comical wasn't archiving any comics even if ArchiveComics wasn't set to None.
· Fixed: Crash when importing images and no comic archives existed.
May 7th, 2010· Added: Comics menu.
· Added: Developer's section for definition authors to the Log window.
· Added: Comics Changes window that appears when the comics database is upgraded.
· Added: Dark version of the Welcome screen when in Fullscreen mode.
· Added: Mark As Read to the Advanced section of the comic list context menu.
· Added: Open Comical's Settings Directory link to the About window.
· Added: ComicImagePosition to the Settings window. MiddleCentre is the default.
· Added: ShowAltTextOnImageHover to the Settings window.
· Added: ComicImageIndex and VersionMode attributes.
· Fixed: Automated update checking not always working.
· Fixed: Start With Windows within the Settings now works in Windows again.
· Fixed: Restoring while previously fullscreen now restores in fullscreen mode.
· Fixed: Flickering in the comics list.
· Fixed: Exception when importing images and no comic being selected.
· Fixed: Exception when pressing F12 (ViewComicWebsite) with a virtual comic selected.
· Fixed: Exception during startup pertaining to the log.
· Other: Improved comic checking and downloading mechanism.
· Other: Improved Url encoding and decoding.
· Other: Removed MatchFromRegexStart attribute.
· Other: Faster start-up.
· Other: History information moved out of Comical.txt and into Changelog.txt.
· Other: Updated BiQubic.Update and BiQubic.Pique.
March 23rd, 2010· Other: The selection of large comic archives is more visually responsive. - Fixed: Comic database updating failed to work due to a missing file. - Fixed: Occasional exception with the downloading of some comics.
March 19th, 2010· Added: Support for CBZ comic file integration (drag and drop .cbz into comics list).
· Added: Minimise to Systray button next to the navigation buttons.
· Added: New Comic Category selection style and categories.
· Added: Display Log to the Tools menu. Used mainly for definition authors.
· Added: Context menu to the currently-viewed comic image.
· Added: Remove Archive to the comic list context menu.
· Added: Comic image now supports an alt-text tooltip if it has alt-text.
· Added: AutoInstallNewComicsDatabase and ShowActiveComicImage to the Settings window.
· Added: RedirectUrl, RedirectUrlIndex, and StripStrings attributes to comic definitions.
· Added: CrLfs are stripped out of badly-formed comic image URLs.
· Fixed: "Index out of range" exception during comic update checking and navigating.
· Fixed: Favourite marking is finally fixed.
· Other: Virtual Comics now have their first image selected, not the last latest image like standard comics.
· Other: Comical now uses the System renderer style for its menus in Windows XP.
· Other: Previously downloaded comics can now be browsed without comic archiving having to be enabled.
· Other: Replaced ArchiveDownloadedComics with ArchiveComics in the Settings window.
· Other: Comic database downloads are now compressed.
· Other: Changed the version checking method.
· Other: Removed BiQubic.Suite.Controls, BQS.Core, and BQS.FileSystem dependencies.
· Other: Removed Windows7 task progress support.
· Other: Removed ResolveToRoot(AndCombine) and IgnoreInvalidFilesize attributes. No longer needed.
· Other: Massive comics database update.
· Other: Optimisations to start-up time.
March 3rd, 2010· Added: Html entity decoding to alt and title text.
· Fixed: Marking a comic as a favourite wouldn't always work.
· Fixed: IsNew states could sometimes be forgotten.
· Fixed: "A new update is available" spam at startup.
· Fixed: Installing a new version of Comical didn't install its new comics database.
· Other: The floating Welcome banner is no longer shown on startup.
March 2nd, 2010· Added: Welcome screen when no comics are being viewed.
· Added: Support for comic Title and Alt text.
· Added: GoUpPath, IgnoreImages, and AltText attributes to comic definitions.
· Added: Clear Comic Image to the Edit menu (does not delete image; just clears it).
· Added: View Comic's Page to the comic list context menu (default shortcut is F12).
· Added: Copy Forum Definition to Clipboard to the comic list context menu.
· Added: Delete key shortcut to clear comic image. See Settings window to change.
· Added: Twitter and Donation links to the Help menu.
· Added: About window.
· Fixed: The comics list now gets the focus when Comical is restored from the systray.
· Other: Rewrote the image display code.
· Other: Improved handling of selecting multiple comics at once.
· Other: Significant performance improvements.
· Other: Updated comics database.
November 4th, 2009· Added: Vertical mouse-wheel scrolling. Delta amount depends on input device.
· Added: Delete this Comic to the archive navigation menu.
· Added: ShowTrayNotificationsTime to the Settings window.
· Added: Force Updates Check Stop to the Tools menu in-case update checking hangs.
· Added: Checks for comics with invalid characters in their filename when archiving.
· Fixed: Ocassional crash while minimised to the system tray when new comics are available.
· Fixed: Temporary fix for handled exception on Importing Images. Underlying cause is unreproducable.
· Other: Comic update state is saved immediately after performing an update check.
· Other: Added Shrub Monkeys to the comics database.
November 4th, 2009· Added: Check For Application Update to the Settings window.
· Added: Check For New Comics to the Settings window.
· Added: Used Space field to Comic Information display (click comic's filename in menu bar).
· Fixed: Start Minimised wasn't showing within Settings.
· Fixed: Start Minimised wasn't working correctly.
· Other: Slightly changed the visual aspect of checking for comic updates.
October 13th, 2009· Added: Virtual Comics support. See Wiki for details.
· Added: Import Images to the File menu.
· Added: Full multi-threaded comic update checking. See Settings window.
· Added: Full Screen mode (F11) to the Tools menu.
· Added: Paste Image from Clipboard to the Edit menu.
· Added: Keyboard Shortcuts section to the Settings window.
· Added: Automated comic updating checking interval to the Settings window. Added: Start with Windows to the Settings window.
· Added: Windows 7 support for taskbar progress indication during comic update checking. - Added: Tray icon animates if Comical is hidden and new comics become available.
· Added: Comics information when clicking on a comic's title on the menu bar.
· Added: ResolveToRootAndCombine attribute to Comics.xml.
· Added: Updated comics database.
· Fixed: Start Minimised wasn't working correctly.
· Fixed: Download errors with some idiotically named comics (namely C&H).
· Other: Reduced comic update checking network traffic by 50%.
· Other: Significant comic archive loading performance improvements.
· Other: Prevented certain actions being performed during updates.
· Other: Minor changes and additions.
October 13th, 2009· Added: [ and ], BrowserBack/Forward/Cursors/etc keyboard shortcuts for archive navigation.
· Added: Configurable archive navigation indication text in Settings.
· Added: Fix for downloading comics from broken web servers. (eg. Awkward Zombie)
· Fixed: Exception when navigating the archive after renaming a comic. - Fixed: Tab-order in the main window.
· Fixed: Update checker was giving an incorrect download URL for the application update.
· Other: Small changes and additions.
October 13th, 2009· Added: [ and ], BrowserBack/Forward/Cursors/etc keyboard shortcuts for archive navigation.
· Added: Configurable archive navigation indication text in Settings.
· Added: Fix for downloading comics from broken web servers. (eg. Awkward Zombie)
· Fixed: Exception when navigating the archive after renaming a comic. - Fixed: Tab-order in the main window.
· Fixed: Update checker was giving an incorrect download URL for the application update.
· Other: Small changes and additions.
October 13th, 2009· Added: Comic archiving and browsing. See Settings window.
· Please note that some comics are incompatible with this feature unless the comics drop-down menu is used to rename individual comics.
· Added: Checking for updates to comics is now multi-threaded.
· Added: Can now view comics while checking for updates.
· Added: Pique exception management support.
· Added: Installer and uninstaller.
· Fixed: Main window's maximised state is now remembered.
· Fixed: The main window jumping when settings are saved.
· Other: Lots of changes and additions.
October 13th, 2009· Added: Main window's size and location are now saved.
· Added: IgnoreInvalidFilesize attribute to Comics.xml.
· Added: ComicsUser.xml for user-added/edited comics.
· Added: Wiki entry; see Help -> On the Web -> Comical Wiki.
· Fixed: Comics database updating wasn't working correctly.
· Other: Large amount of changes and additions; too many to list.
October 13th, 2009· Added: Comics can be scrolled by dragging them with the mouse.
· Added: Automatic downloading and updating of the comic database.
· Added: Individual comic update checking.
· Other: Complete rewrite of the comic core.
· Other: Lots of minor changes.
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