What's new in Comic Collector? 2016

Fixed:

• Main Screen: after resizing the first column too much, the text was no longer readable
• Edit Comic: Closing the edit screen could cause a crash on El Capitan

Fixed:

• Main screen: switching from details to statistics would crash the program

Fixed:

• Program would crash on startup or load incorrectly for OS older than Sierra

New:

• 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.

Fixed:

• Fixed Fullscreen Popups on macOS Sierra

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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Fixed:

• Check for Update was broken for macOS Sierra.
• Templates were broken when User Defined Field headers contained special characters.
• CLZ Cloud: Down sync: Fixed an issue causing possible duplication of series.

Fixed:

• Export to XML is now capable of exporting large databases without “Out of Memory” errors, as it now writes the XML directly to hard disk. This is a bit slower though.
• Edit Comic:
  • Creators and Character grid column widths not restored properly sometimes
  • Contents tab: when trying to move a story up or down it would throw an “Abstract Error”
• Sync with Cloud: Wrap Around and TPB fields were cleared when syncing down from the cloud
• Add/Modify Filter: “Contains” filters were always case insensitive even when “case sensitive” was checked
• Edit Multiple Comics:
  • cancelling without making changes would still ask for confirmation
  • F8 didn’t clear price values

Fixed:

• Program could throw an “Handle is invalid” error after multiple edits
• Add Comics Automatically: checked results would stay checked after adding them

Fixed:

• Main Screen:
  • The folder tree was wrapping the values in the list
  • A double hint was showing for the thumbnail slider to resize thumbnails in Images View
• When working offline, closing the program could cause Access Violations
• Edit Comic:
  • It was possible to sort the stories list where it shouldn’t which caused drawing issues
  • Moving story up or down could make selected story look empty
• User Defined Fields: values of check box lists were not loaded correctly in some cases

Improvements:

• Cloud Syncing: Now does up to 5 retries when a sync action fails because of a temporary connection problem.
• Edit Comic: Improved “search as you type” behaviour of search boxes for adding creators and characters.
• Dark Skin: active window now has a light grey border, making it stand out more when windows overlap.

Fixed:

• Screen started to “flicker” after leaving the program inactive for a few minutes.
• Add Automatically: selecting/checking issues could be *very* slow in some cases.
• Add Automatically: adding a checked result would sometimes uncheck a result from another search in the queue.
• Main Screen / Two Panel Mode: selection status text would sometimes show an invalid text when no comics were showing in the list.
• Edit Multiple: F8 to clear didn’t work for memo fields like Plot and Notes.
• Edit Multiple: “Quantity” field was always cleared.
• Link Comics: multiple problems since the introduction of the Dark Skin.

Fixed:

• Edit Comic:
  • Changing collection status sometimes would uncheck a radiobutton but not check the selected one
  • It wasn’t possible to enter an empty Issue Number, it would always show ‘0’
  • Previous/Next/Ok could mess up data when the edit screen was still loading

Fixed:

• Export to HTML: access violation could occur in some cases when using a custom index template
• Edit Screen: Checkbox List hints would sometimes not disappear
• Main Screen: changing font size could make some screen elements disappear
• Quick Filter Panel: filters weren’t applied directly at startup when panel was closed but “Keep Active” was checked

Changes

• Date Fields: Year field’s position now also depends on system’s shortdate setting

Fixed:

• Edit Comic:
  • Date fields didn’t clear their Month and Day values using next/previous when they weren’t filled in for the next/previous item
  • Delete key didn’t work in Month and Day fields to clear their values. Backspace did work normally.
  • Clicking stars to add rating didn’t set “read it” field according to setting

Changes

• Date fields now have dropdowns for Month and Day. Order of Month and Day dropdown depends on system’s shortdate setting now

Fixed:

• Edit Multiple: F8 in date fields didn’t clear them
• Main Screen:
  • horizontal scrollbar was sometimes showing in folder tree when it shouldn’t
  • Cards View: scrolling using the mouse wheel wasn’t working properly
  • layout wasn’t always restored properly when quick filter panel was showing
• Quick Filter Panel: collection status filter wasn’t showing in filter description at bottom of the screen

Fixed:

• Edit Multiple Comics would clear “Quantity” field

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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Fixed:

• CLZ Cloud Sync: Fixed a crash when down-syncing a new comic.
• CLZ Cloud Sync: Series: Sort Names were not always synced.
• Add Auto: When adding a new Comic, customised Series Names were overwritten.
• 2 Panel Mode: Folders were always sorted by article.
• Folders: Preference “Ignore SortName of Person Item” was not working.

Fixed:

• Edit In List: some checkboxes didn’t trigger a sync change
• Cards View: Find Cover: select new cover. New Cover was not displayed.
• Add Auto: Queue mode > Add Selected: sometimes all (not selected) queue items were added
• Main Screen: 2 Horizontal Panels: Layout Sizes were not restored
• Add Automatically: By Barcode: Sometimes a new comic was added without barcode
• Manage Pick Lists: Didn’t always show any warning for duplicate items

Fixed:

• Add Auto screen: “automatically close after queue is emptied” was not working
• Table Sorting: Empty values were not sorted correctly
• Edit In List: Edit Read It & Changing Date didn’t trigger a “sync change”
• Template: Barcode icon was missing

Fixed:

• Edit Multiple Comics would always uncheck the “Trade Paperback” checkbox
• Main Screen: Scrolling the Details View with the mouse wheel would scroll the list when the scroll bar reached the top
• Sync with Cloud: cancelling sync didn’t always work

New:

• New Maintenance tool: Tools > Maintenance > Open database location
• Add Auto/Update Settings: Include links from Collectorz Core

Fixed:

• Add Auto: QuickFill: Collection Status wasn’t set correctly
• Stories UDF were not saved
• Sort by Series Column: now it sorts the Series Issues too
• Template: Links section fixed

Fixed:

• Add auto screen: “Collection Status” setting was not working properly
• Images View: Newly added items with “Add Automatically” were not selected

Fixed:

• Edit Comic: Edit/Add Story would throw an “Ancestor for ‘cxTreeStyleRepository’ not found” error

Fixed:

• Starting program in Cover Flow or switching to it was very slow
• Main Screen: Cards View: selection wasn’t always restored properly
• Update File Links: Story front cover paths were not updated properly
• Quick search:
  • Pasting text into quick search box didn’t show the clear button
  • Escape button will now clear quick search when quick search is selected.

Fixed:

• Templates: changing Read It/Rating didn’t trigger a change for syncing
• Templates: 2 panels mode with selected folder: selection was lost after changing “Read It”
• Edit in List: Edit Rating was not working
• Templates: Online Links: “https” URLs didn’t open
• Cover Flow panel now has a black background
• Performance: Statistics are no longer updated if not necessary
• Sort Sets selection was sometimes lost after restarting the app
• Main Screen: “Collection status” filter selection was not remembered after restarting the app

Fixed:

• Update from Core: Preview Art was not downloaded even when update option was set to “replace current data”.
• Add Automatically: fixed a few bugs regarding fetching and showing Pull List issues.
• Update File Links: Story front cover paths were not validated.

Fixed:

• Menu: “View > Cards” item was missing
• Cards View was not working on Mavericks
• Add automatically: edit screen wasn’t opening after adding a comic
• Delete Orphan Images: TPB Covers were always deleted

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

Fixed:

• List View could crash after opening the program, making it seem like no database was open.

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.

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