yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fgianni:
Yes that did the trick for the first run but after that if I exit and restart I get a different error:

COmicReader.exe

IOException

An error message cannot be displayed because an optional resource assembly containing it cannot be found.

at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError()

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor()

at System.IO.FileStream..ctor()

at System.IO.StreamWriter.CreateFile()

at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor()

at System.IO.StreamWriter..ctor()

at mobi.ComicReader.control.SeriesManager.saveSeriesDTO()

at mobi.ComicReader.control.SeriesManager.SetCurrentPage()

at mobi.ComicReader.control.ComicController.LoadPage()

at mobi.ComicReader.control.ComicController.load()

at mobi.ComicReaderPlatform.Main.firstLoad()

at mobi.ComicReaderPlatform.Main.Main_Activated()

at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnActivated()

at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WnProc()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc()

at Microsoft.AGL.Forms.WL.SetVis()

at System.Windows.Forms.Control.set_Visible()

at System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run()

at mobi.ComicReader.Program.Main()

If I delete the .mobi file again, I get the error on the previous message again.

If I delete the .mobi file and soft reset the phone then I can read the comic. But it's quite annoying to have to delete a file and reset the phone every time.

Please also remember that any attempt to deinstall ComicReader fails on my machine.

I'm on 2.0.1 now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] fgianni:
Any further ideas on what is going on?

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
I PM'd you a new exe, did you get it?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SrTapir:
It worked for me, now I don´t have any problems whith the .mobi file on my HD2.. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] igniparra:
Isn't this section suposed to have only NON commercial software?

I can't download it..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
I talked to a Mod way back, and they decided I could keep it, since I started off as non commercial.

The condition was that I don't use the thread to heavily advertise the new product.

Its possible the one year recap may have pushed me over that line. I'll PM him and report back.

Hopefully not, I really enjoyed writing it :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
OK, I asked the Mod, and he said I was ok. So it looks like I won't have to get rid of the "a look back" stuff after all :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mrekim:
Thank you for this great program, I loaded a few manga on my touch pro and it looks great, even for really detailed art in manga like Berserk I can see details and read the text very clearly! Also, I like the simple, no frills presentation, just like CDisplay.

That said, I'd like to float a few suggestions, if you don't mind:

- Support for orientation sensor (or a quick rotate button) so I can reorient to landscape for greater width in 2 page spreads. I actually used flip-it to do this, but it crashes comic reader when I reorient and try to pull out of fullsceeen.

- Resize on orientation change.

- Configuration setting to open comics in fullscreen by default.

- Flick left or right to go to previous and next pages.

Thanks again for this program!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dwergsnot:
It's a great program!

Not all the options seem to work (most notably orientation and file association) but it's nice and fast.

Perfect for reading comics on my X7500's VGA screen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BenDick:
Again I am really liking this software. One small thing that I'd like to see is the option for each page to load at the top left as opposed to the right. Most comics I read start at the top left.

Also I am not all that fond of the up and down button to take you to another comic. I had accidentally pushed the up and totally lost my spot in the comic. Perhaps you can use the up and down key to zoom in and out. I would be fond of that.

Kudos again tho and keep up the good work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lbhocky19:
agree with all of that
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mh262:
How do you open this once installed?

Ok so I figured that out...Just needed to DL the new compact framework

This thing is the most amazing program EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
New version is out!

Ok, the new version fixes the manga bug. Now you can unselect "Start at Top Right" to start at the left

I also took your suggestion and add an option to bind the up/down keys to zoom instead

I think theres already a tool out there to rotate using the sensor (gsensor2?)

but I think I fixed the bug that was crashing it when you tried.

I was able to open the keyboard on my Fuze, and it rotated nicely.

I added the option to open in comics in fullscreen. I really like this idea by the way! Sometimes I'm to lazy to manually go to fullscreen and just read in windowed mode, but no longer!

I added a "High Quality" option. Uncheck it, and it should speed up your page time a lot. Honestly, in some pages, I can't even tell the difference between the two. Also, try to use zips instead of rars when you can. Those load faster.

Thanks for all the great feedback guys!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
Oh yeah, you'll need to install Compact Framework 3.5 in order for this to work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] techred:
hm, any links to good comics, please?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Andreal:
Great app, many thanks.

CDisplay finally on my PDA :)

Works grat on HTC Wizard (WM 6.1), page reloading time is quite short: 2-3 sec.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lbhocky19:
awesome even better now
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BenDick:
Wow! I am super happy with the updates coming so fast. This is a really nice project for you. I wish I knew how to make WM programs. All I know is basic actionscript.

I am thinking about scanning and archiving my magazines now. Thank you. This will keep me quite busy.

I have issues with my phone using the zoom keys. When I select that option and then press the up key or down key, nothing happens. Currently I am using an origianl HTC Touch on the Rogers Network. Let me know if you need any other information. I am glad to help.

I am a user of the SmartWatch program. I really like how you can check for new updates and change that within the program. Its really helpful as you can update while you are away from a computer. Just a suggestion. I know this is your first program, but I really like it.

Two thumbs way up!!!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] BenDick:
Actually never mind the comment regarding the zooming buttons not working. I did a soft reset they are working now.

I did however play around with the zooming. Perhaps you can make an if statement not to zoom out of the image too far. When I was zooming out of the image and had some of the white background showing, onceI pressed the zoom in key and the program crashed.

Hope I'm not a bother...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rizaldi:
All I can say is that this is an excellent program! Great job Deisama!!! I've been looking for this for a while. Thank you very much!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hotrod101:
Very nice. Comics come though nice and clear. Having some problems with zooming - up down do not work to zoom right now - Am soft resetting now to see if this will get it to work as suggested in another post. I am experiencing some crashing though when I zoom too much or unzoom too much. Only been testing for 10 minutes now so not sure whether it is a problem when I zoom to a certain point or if I am just trying to zoom too much too fast. Will post again once I determined which it is.

Edit: Zooming does work now with up and down - Had to change it in options - Did not see it at first.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hotrod101:
I don't know what this means so I thought I would post the error message here for you, maybe you can make sense of it.

Still not sure whether it is zooming too much or just problem with zooming in general

Error

Comicreader.exe

COMException

Unspecified error

at

ComicReader.ImageDisplay.generateSizedImage(Boolean refresh)

at

ComicReader.ImageDisplay.set_Pageimage(ComicImage value)

at ComicReader.Form1.loadPae()

at ComicReader.Form1.nextPage()

at

ComicReader.Form1.Form1_Keydown(Object sender, KeyEventArgs e)

at

System.Windows.Forms.Control.Onkeydown(KeyEventArgs e)

at

System.Windows.Forms.Control._InternalWnProc(WM wm, Int32 wParam, Int 32 lParam)

at

Microsoft.AGL.Forms.EVL.EnterMainLoop(IntPtr hwnMain)

at

System.Windows.Forms.Application.Run(Form fm)

at ComicReader.Program.Main(String[]args)

Running it on HTC Elfin original WM 6.0 rom - Comics are stored on storage card - Error seems to occur when zooming and when changing pages when zoomed and does not occure regularly (been only testing for 15 - 20 minutes now. Have tried opening comic from App and clicking on comic directly from file explorer to open - Same thing happens either way.

edit: Now I have tried it without any zoom at all and just flipping though pages - through around 4th page - program crashed unexpectedly - Error message only said unexpected error - tried several times unzoomed and got same error / crash

Would love to see this become more stable - it is a wonderful program. I aslo like the suggestion of a zoom box feature so we could select an area to zoom in on. this program is sweet though already (except for the crashes)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
You kids and your crazy zooming! You know, back in my day, ComicReader didn't even have the option to bind zoom to buttons, and no one felt the need to try to zoom in or as out as much as possible.

There was no crashing, and good times were had by all :p
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
hmm, is it always crashing on the same page? I wonder if one of the images is currupt. Try extracting it, and see if you can read it with a different image viewer.

Can you tell me some info about the comic? like file resolution and file type?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rareness4:
nice app, a suggestion, can you have an option to let the touch wheel scroll through pages like it does w/ our contacts and stuff?

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hotrod101:
back in my day there were no digital comic book readers - Just the real thing :D

I never thought that it may be a currupt image or images. I will try your suggestions and report back. Thanks for replying.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hotrod101:
OK - I tried several other .cbr type comics and have had no problems. The problem only occurred in the one comic so far and as you thought, always on page 6 of the comic. I have viewed this comic on my desktop computer before with no problems even on page 6 - Maybe the transfer to my phone was not very successful and created errors. I will try sending it back to my phone new and see if it works this time.

Edit : tested and same thing - Page six causes program to crash. but other files work flawlessly so far. Have many more to test and enjoy :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tencheenian:
I am checking on some of your old version work (1.61) from others site. It seems like it doesnt have split screen feature in that. I wonder if it is supported in the latest 2.0.1 version? I really going to buy this for my HD2 due to the support of multi-touch and split screen. Please let me know if the splitting double pages to single pages is supported in Windows Mobile version or not.... I tried the WIndows XP version, love the split screen a lot!:D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
Yep :) Split screen is supported :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] eskasi:
After seeing the improvements to this app and the support... and even though I had a working V1.6 which was working great... I went ahead and bought this app...

Well done. I hope you guys will continue making advances here :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
Cool :)

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dario69:
I am thinking of doing the same thing. Just one question - is the registration process locked by device id or user name? I tend to switch devices often and I hate having to reach out to the developer every time I switch phones. In the past some devs just drop off from the planet leaving me with useless software that doesn't work on the newer phones.

Thanks in advance.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
Its not locked by device id. I know a couple of customers use it on more than one of their devices. But still, if I drop off from the planet, I sure hope someone looks for me!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dario69:
Awesome. I know you have to make a living and keep the pirates at bay but device id authentication is the worst. Especially with the smaller electronics where turnover is faster.

The support for progressive scan is the clincher. I know you provided a utility to convert files over but I just like the idea of dropping my comics and read. I wish I could do the same with my video files. So less re-encoding files the better.

And thanks for the quick reply too.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dario69:
Now I wish I bought this sooner. This is so much better than the freeware version you released a year or so ago. It has progressed so much I would advertise more on the enhancements since the initial releases when it was free. I am sure there are others sitting on the fence - much like myself - that would buy this in a heartbeat if they knew how much it has advanced. Well worth the price tag.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
Thanks man! I'm glad you liked it :)

Any suggestions on what new features to list?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] michou974:
merci pour ce logiciel plus qu'intéressant!!!

Une autre vie de plus pour mes appareils sous wm (p3700 htc et hx4700 hp):)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pgunning1:
Hi would love to use this app but just keeps crashing, using an HTC7500 vga win mob 6, pdf in zip file.

Just returns to programs menu when trying to load the zip file, the program opens ok, and settings can be adjusted but when opening zip files just crashes out. Ive tried to files so far is there a test file I could try to remove the thought of corrupt pdfs.

ATB

Paul
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dario69:
First, the UI is much cleaner and after I got the hang of it I really liked the center menu toggle. That alone makes the reading experience much better especially for heavy comic readers like myself. Also, I see you have added more more robust hardware control support.

I like how I can switch comics and it saves my settings in the mobi config file. I know we can save bookmarks in the freeware version but the retail version makes it more intuitive and automatic. Just read and not worry about saving your spots. If transferring to another device a person can just copy this file so they will not lose their spots in their comics.

Another enhancement is the ability to handle more graphic intense comics. Comics I had crash with the freeware version now work fine on the retail version. Even progressive scans which I thought required that switch in the Advanced configuration.

This leads to an observation. When the Prevent "unable to display image" checked I ran into more cases where comics would crash. Now when having this unchecked comics that do contain progressive scans return to the splash screen - I see no message about "unable to display image". I remember that message with the freeware version. So maybe it was changed with 2.0? But not all progressive scans require this switch from what I can see. So I take it the newer version can handle certain progressive scan images without this checked? If you have a manual or help file on your website I apologize for bringing this up. Maybe you already explain this in your forum.

Another potential bug - with the TP2 I noticed hardware controls and Overwrite hardware buttons my volume buttons still bring up the volume screen. It maps correctly to the action specified but that darn volume screen pops up every time. I do have a custom rom though so that could be the problem. Latest 2.5 Energyrom.

I am going to do more investigative work with the crashes and see if there is a pattern - certain comics, container file contents, image type, etc. I will keep you posted on your forum at this point forward or PM if you are okay with that. It is definitely a minor issue though - most of my files are handled without error.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] werewolfman:
hi there...it seems like a very nice program

i tried the free version first (1.3 & 1.6) on my omnia but i had a probelm viewing the comic

the comic is displayed on a part of the screen (quareter of it or more) while the rest of the screen is black. the comic is displayed fine on this part though :D

i tried full screen but no good

any ideas ??

thanx anyway
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
Sorry about the delay, I didn't notice this message until now :(

Comic Reader mobi doesn't have any kind of pdf support, so a zip file with a pdf in it wouldn't be able to load. There are converters out there for pdfs that will let you extract all the pages out as images, so I'd give that a shot.

hmm, well those version are very old, and unsupported. But I've never had anyone mention such a bug for the current version. And if you bought it and it had the bug, than I'd have to fix it since you'd be a customer :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] albertorrent:
Hi Deisama,

on your site you say that this works with WinCE 6.0

Can you tell me if it works on WinCE 5.0 ?

I wante to buy a WinCE 5.0 device but I will only Comic reader works on it

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
yeah, it should work on any winCE after 2003. The only caviet, is that if its not an ARM processor than it won't be able to open rar files. But those are easy to convert
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] albertorrent:
ok thanks.

a friend of mine did test this version : ComicReaderMobileV1.6.1.CAB

on this wince 5.0 device :

http://www.hvsco.com/ProductsView.asp?articleid=803

here is what he tried :

may be it is due to the version 1.6.1.

may be it would work better with the newest comic reader mobi ??

do you still have it for evaluation so he could test it ?

thanks !
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
Yeah, the old version required the 3.5 compact framework which seemed pretty unreliable. So the new version uses 2.0. Everyone who had trouble with the old one was able to use the new one without problems, so you should be fine.

I don't have an evaluation version, but if you buy it and it doesn't work out, its really easy to refund you through paypal :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] spyrale:
working like a charm on hd2 with miri rom, this app is awesome, thank you very much, now i can read all my comics :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] creiz:
Bought this 30secs ago. I was a fanatic of this app when it was free. it's only normal I buy it now. I don't read that much mangas, or those kinds. But sometimes they spit out good ones. Neil Gaiman ones. Like Sandman. Goddamn, there's nothing better than to read the Sandman while taking the train Montreal-Quebec on that rainy saturday morning.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] albertorrent:
I finaly bought iti and I confirm that it does work with a wince device wich is very great (7inches touchscreen ...)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] goedzo:
dank je wel
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] v23k:
hi,

beautiful prog!!!

one page before, you wrote, that it does not support pdf files.

so, i have some dagobert duck comics in pdf format, is there a special tool, to convert them or something?

greetings

maik
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
You know, I'm not exactly sure to be honest. My quick google search pulled this up:

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-ways-to-convert-a-pdf-file-to-a-jpg-image/

You could also look for tools that extract the jpegs out of the pdf.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gunsmoke2011:
Problem....

Thanks for the great program!

I just switched from g1 to hd2 and I missed my comic book reader from android until now. I have been reading some comics with it, but after I tried to play with setting bam! Program keeps crashing with error then when I goto home screen, it stays landscape mode that forces me to restart the phone to fix it.

I tried to uninstall your program but phone could not uninstall program for some reason.(tried to reinstall on top of it too)

Now I can't use your program :(

Here is what Error screen says,

Error

-----------------

An unexpected error has occurred in ComicReader.exe.

Select Quit and then restart this program, or select details for more information.

The process cannot access the file'\storage\my documents\my comics\.mobi' because it is being used by another process.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
Yeah, this is a wierd issue with the HD2. You can resolve this by deleting the .mobi file in your "My Comics" directory and than seperating your comics into folders

so

My Comics\x-men\1.rar

My Comics\Spiderman\comic1.zip

instead of keeping them all in the root
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] gunsmoke2011:
Thx for the reply however i have encountered another problem, I wanted ability to zoom in and out of the page so i was playing with over riding 'back' button.

But even after i change the settings to default, i noticed that when I click on the back button(hardware button) comic page was zooming out thus making it very hard to see. When this happened, whenever i click on the empty spot on the screen (the black area) program gives me this error,

'A native exception has occurred in ComicReader.exe.

Select Quit and then restart this program, or select Details for more information.'

when restart, page shows up as zoomed out max distance and same thing happens. pls help as reading comics on my mobile is kinda big thing to me.

Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
Oh of course! We'll get this squared away as soon as possible, so that you can go back to reading comics. I'm emailing you new exe. Try placing that in your /Program Files/Reader Mobi directory and see if that helps :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] toutatis:
I discovered ComicReader Mobi and I'll probably buy it. I was really impressed by the program !

However, I've seen on a few .cbr, containing only jpeg images, the message : "This file doesn't have any pages!"

There was no problem to open these files on a desktop reader.

Does ComicReader Mobi needs the pages numbered a certain way ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
That sounds very familier, but I can't remember what the problem was last time...

Anyway, I'd say make sure that the rar files don't contain any zip files or anything like that. Also you could try running it through the comiccleaner tool on the forums to see if that resolves the problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] toutatis:
I just know that the files have only images and no zipped files.

I'll check with files processed through the cleaner tools (found one on your forums).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] devilman:
I paid the app and i am using it.

I have 3 questions for the author :

1) I use to read comics consisting of 100 pages.

turning the pages takes really a lot, are you going to do something to improve the perfomance?

(loading of the next page is checked)

2) I noticed that the last pages of the comics takes a lot more to change than the first ones... is it possible to do something about this isuue?

3) are you going to add a gesture finger friendly movement to change panges?

it would be really nice.

Thank you in advance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] deisama:
I had another user who was experiencing the same thing. If its taking a REALLY long time than it may be the rar file your using. Sometimes they're compressed using solid compression, which means the program has to go back through every single previous file in order to extract the next one.

I'd recommend using the ComicCleaner tool here:

http://forums.comicreader.mobi/showthread.php?34-quot-Unable-to-Display-Image-quot-ComicCleaner

that'll recompresss the comic in a lossless way, so that it'll work much better on the phone :)

As for swiping, yeah, should have it ready next week :)