Skip to content

Browser Usage

Warlord edited this page Dec 6, 2016 · 4 revisions

Use the browser like a regular file system browser. Navigate the tree of your folders by clicking on the expansion marker on the left of a folder name. This should expand the folder if you have access to it and then list the folder beneath it.

Clicking on a folder to select it will switch the main browser pane to display all of the comic books contained within (if there are any). Each comic book will show as a cover page.

Double click on a cover image and the comic book archive will be opened in the reader.

You can customise the browser display by placing a file named folder.jpg or folder.png into the folder holding your comic book archives and it will be used like wallpaper for that folder.

Technical Details

The cover pages are cached upon first use. So if you've already visited that folder the covers will load pretty quickly from the cache. The covers are extracted from the comic book archive and resized before being cached in the ./coverscache folder. The cache files are stored as the MD5 hash of the file name and then into a sub-folder matching the first two characters of that hash. This is so the cache folders don't get too large in terms of number of files stored in each folder.

Future Plans

Possible future features will allow for file manipulation such as renaming, moving, creating folders etc.

Clone this wiki locally