The Comic Book Wizard Changelog

What's new in The Comic Book Wizard 0.4.3

Mar 31, 2019
  • Removed old unsupported installer
  • The software is portable for now just unzip the exe and the dll files into a folder
  • Fixed an old bug that would cause the bottom of the main window to be cut off
  • The progress bar is now visible as it should have been
  • Added links for the libraries used
  • Updated project link in the software

New in The Comic Book Wizard 0.4.2 (Feb 20, 2019)

  • Fixed a serious bug in the archive manager which caused it to lock up immediately and not function at all
  • Fixed minor bugs when not selecting folders after clicking on the buttons
  • Added links to archive manager so people can click them and immediately go to source and save to directories
  • Added progress bar so user knows exactly when the operation is done

New in The Comic Book Wizard 0.4.2 Beta (Mar 11, 2014)

  • fixed a serious bug in the archive manager which caused it to lock up immediately and not function at all
  • fixed minor bugs when not selecting folders after clicking on the buttons
  • added links to archive manager so people can click them and immediately go to source and save to directories
  • added progress bar so user knows exactly when the operation is done

New in The Comic Book Wizard 0.4.1 Beta (Mar 6, 2014)

  • fixed and improved conversion speed of zip archives to cbz, they should now be converted almost instantly and saved to the selected directory
  • fixed minor bug with reset preview button not resizing to correct dimensions

New in The Comic Book Wizard 0.4.0 Beta (Mar 5, 2014)

  • implemented library for handling the opening to rar and cbr archives
  • added option of allowing users to choose wether they want the preview window to dock
  • implemented the arhive manager tab
  • program can now convert cbr, rar and zip archives in a directory to cbz, conversion isnt that fast
  • but i will see what i can do to speed it up
  • added the option of disabling the preview window
  • preview window now stays docked at the same viewing level as the main application

New in The Comic Book Wizard 0.3.0 Beta (Mar 5, 2014)

  • lowered netframework requirements to 4.0 client profile and up so that if a person doesnt have netframework 4.0 they can downloaded the client profile version
  • which is somewhat smaller
  • split the image preview from the the left side
  • added a reset preview button so that after the preview window is resized or moved it can be reset to its starting position and size
  • the image preview can now also play .gif images
  • fixed bug that broke the calculation of the total size of files to be compressed
  • removed the clear list button
  • the list is now filtered so that archives dont show up on the list, this is in preparation for the
  • integrated archive manager that is going to be implemented

New in The Comic Book Wizard 0.2.0 Beta (Mar 5, 2014)

  • removed netframework compression class
  • implemented SharpZipLib library
  • lowered netframework requirements to 4.0 so program can now run on Windows XP and up
  • program now uses its root directory to store files temporarily
  • program now checks the save to directory and its root directory for duplicate files before saving and deletes duplicates
  • fixed bug that caused crash when saving to location with same file name
  • fixed bug that caused save directories name to get concatenated to the saved archives
  • fixed bug that caused program to save to deskop always
  • added progress bar so user knows when the program is done
  • cleaned up source code a bit
  • moved and resized interface slightly
  • gave program an icon

New in The Comic Book Wizard 0.1.0 Pre-Alpha (Mar 5, 2014)

  • Added feature to save to multiple formats when compressing
  • Added feature to preview selected images
  • Added feature to display total size of all images that are going to get compressed
  • Added feature to prevent user from typing invalid characters for file name
  • Added feature to allow direct opening of selected files by double clicking
  • Fixed bug that caused crash when memory is low
  • Fixed bug that caused crash when hard drive space is low
  • Fixed bug that caused crash when program would try to display selected items other than images