What's new in Comic Collector? 2016

New:

• Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.
• Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
• Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
• The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

New: “Search-As-You-Type” suggestions when adding comics by title

If you are adding most of your comics “By Title”, then this will be a huge time-saver.

Here’s how the new “Search-As-You-Type” feature works:

1. In the Add Comics Automatically screen, just start typing the first letters of the series title you want to add issues for.
2. While typing, a drop-down list will appear, instantly showing the five most popular series that match,
   including the date range, the number of issues contained and a small thumbnail image.
3. For popular series, it usually takes only 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.
   For older or less popular series, type a few more letters.
4. Once you see your series appear, use the arrow keys to select it, then hit Enter.
5. Then under Search Results, that exact series will be listed, with its’ issue list.

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New: “Search-As-You-Type” suggestions when adding comics by title

If you are adding most of your comics “By Title”, then this will be a huge time-saver.

Here’s how the new “Search-As-You-Type” feature works:

1. In the Add Comics Automatically screen, just start typing the first letters of the series title you want to add issues for.
2. While typing, a drop-down list will appear, instantly showing the five most popular series that match,
   including the date range, the number of issues contained and a small thumbnail image.
3. For popular series, it usually takes only 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.
   For older or less popular series, type a few more letters.
4. Once you see your series appear, use the arrow keys to select it, then hit Enter.
5. Then under Search Results, that exact series will be listed, with its’ issue list.

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NEW: Choose between Light, Dark or System skins

Yes, We’re getting rid of the gray!

Comic Collector now comes with a skin system, which affects the look of all screens in the program,
main screen, edit screens, add auto-screen, sync screen etc.. even the settings screens.

We have designed two different skins for you to choose from: Light and Dark.
The third option “System” is basically the old pre-v16.3 look.

• Light: A clean look, white backgrounds, dark fonts. Very readable, easy on the eye.
• Dark: A cool looking, modern design, with dark backgrounds, light fonts.
• System: Keep things as it was, with the program following your Windows theme.

Please note:
The program now defaults to the Dark Skin. You can change to a different Skin using the Skin option in the View menu.
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New view for the main screen: Card View

Next to List View, Images View and Cover Flow, we have added a Card View, a multi-column view with little info cards for each comic, showing the main issue details and a small cover thumbnail.

Fixed:

• Add Comics Automatically:
  • expanding series on Pull List tab would sometimes retrieve too many issues
  • issue dates weren’t always showing on Pull List tab
  • right click menu didn’t popup when there were no results showing
• Carbon + Quicksilver templates: series image didn’t scale down to correct size
• Quicksilver template didn’t show the issue numbers for trade paper backs
• Linking comics: updating an unlinked comic would not update it from Core after linking it

New view for the main screen: Card View

Next to List View, Images View and Cover Flow, we have added a Card View, a multi-column view with little info cards for each comic, showing the main issue details and a small cover thumbnail.

Read more