JComics / News: Recent posts

Well, after looking at where I am currently, and where I want to go, I'm going to stop coding and go back and re-design the system. I've now realized a lot of the information stored for an Issue is better stored in an IssueCover. This will require a rethinking of the database stucture and the interfaces, and probably other things I haven't thought of yet. So, I'm going to do what I should have done in the first place: get together a more complete design. So, I am doing work, but there probably won't be much activity.

Version 0.3 is released, which adds some nice improvements. If you don't have the database setup, a dialog is now shown where you can set your preferences.
JComics can now also be run directly from the jar file. If the mm.mysql-2.0.4-bin.jar file is in the same directory, just run java -jar jcomics-0.3.jar to run JComics. Read the ChangeLog to find out what else is new.

Fixed a small bux that I somehow missed where an Exception would be thrown when loading the data.

0.2 is now released. Information-wise everything I want (at least at this point) is ready I believe. Still a lot to do, but it's getting there.

Version 0.2 will be delayed as I will be changing how the data collection stores it's information to facilitate sorting. Hey, it's the first thing that's come up since I started where I wished I would have done a little more comprehensive design; not too bad.

The 0.2 release is nearing completion. The major new addition is the ability to store multiple covers per issue, but this also fixes up some GUI issues. Sorting is introduced, along with Preferences. There may be more added before release, but these are the major additions.

I've released 0.1. It works, I'll say that. Lotsa things I want to change and add, but this is a good starting point.

An initial release should be coming soon. The main functionality is there, just some fine tuning to be done, documentation, etc.