Norton Antivirus False Positive

Just for the sake of it I ran ComicRackSetup.exe 0.9.35 through the fine services of VirusTotal. And here's the not unexpected result.

Norton should really get it's act together. This will be really the last time I invest time into this matter. I don't get any money from this, so if you don't want to download it, don't do it. Or get a reasonable virus scanner.

Complete scanning result of "ComicRackSetup.exe", received in VirusTotal at 03.27.2007, 11:52:48 (CET).

Antivirus	Version	Update	Result
AhnLab-V3	2007.3.27.0	03.27.2007	no virus found
AntiVir	7.3.1.44	03.27.2007	no virus found
Authentium	4.93.8	03.26.2007	no virus found
Avast	4.7.936.0	03.25.2007	no virus found
AVG	7.5.0.447	03.26.2007	no virus found
BitDefender	7.2	03.27.2007	no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal	9.00	03.26.2007	no virus found
ClamAV	devel-20070312	03.27.2007	no virus found
DrWeb	4.33	03.27.2007	no virus found
eSafe	7.0.14.0	03.26.2007	no virus found
eTrust-Vet	30.6.3515	03.27.2007	no virus found
Ewido	4.0	03.25.2007	no virus found
FileAdvisor	1	03.27.2007	no virus found
Fortinet	2.85.0.0	03.27.2007	no virus found
F-Prot	4.3.1.45	03.26.2007	no virus found
F-Secure	6.70.13030.0	03.27.2007	no virus found
Ikarus	T3.1.1.3	03.27.2007	no virus found
Kaspersky	4.0.2.24	03.27.2007	no virus found
McAfee	4992	03.26.2007	no virus found
Microsoft	1.2306	03.27.2007	no virus found
NOD32v2	2146	03.27.2007	no virus found
Norman	5.80.02	03.23.2007	no virus found
Panda	9.0.0.4	03.27.2007	no virus found
Prevx1	V2	03.27.2007	no virus found
Sophos	4.15.0	03.27.2007	no virus found
Sunbelt	2.2.907.0	03.24.2007	no virus found
Symantec	10	03.27.2007	no virus found
TheHacker	6.1.6.080	03.23.2007	no virus found
UNA	1.83	03.16.2007	no virus found
VBA32	3.11.2	03.26.2007	no virus found
VirusBuster	4.3.7:9	03.26.2007	no virus found
Webwasher-Gateway	6.0.1	03.27.2007	no virus found
Aditional Information
File size: 1671473 bytes
MD5: 48ab67f7c5f3ed01252fe3e05b01032e
SHA1: 5d7797c431f16535832f55f8a9064c86dd2959d2
packers: BINARYRES

ComicRack v 0.9.35 released

As always with a lot of changes, there's a big chance for some totally unrelated bugs. Like making a workaround for the gearwheel performance issue and with that breaking the small preview...

Here's the fix and some other stuff.

Build 0.9.35:

• NEW: Ctrl+Mouse Wheel sizes items in list
  

• CHANGE: Moved Penciller & Imprint to second page of Comic Dialog
  

• BUG: Drawing of rating stars in detail mode fixed
• BUG: Stupid crashing bug in small preview because of "gearwheel" fix

ComicRack v 0.9.34 released

• NEW: Rating Context menus now with stars (pretty)
• NEW: Text messages of progress during startup
• NEW: Genre Combo Box with "real" separators
• NEW: "Hot" effect for column headers
• NEW: Display of eComic state ("Missing File" for now) in own column and overlay
• NEW: Blur effect for non ready pages in the reader
  

• CHANGE: Rewrote the file meta info storage
• CHANGE: Removed rounded edges on toolbars
• CHANGE: Rewrote shutdown process to support all circumstances (close, logoff, shutdown). ComicRack no longer blocks shutdown.
• CHANGE: Deferred compilation of scripts to speed up startup
• CHANGE: Better image and better scaling used for rating stars when drawing thumbnails
• CHANGE: Recent file menu shows also disk cached covers (and not only in memory)
• CHANGE: Again slight redesign of quicksearch box
• CHANGE: Some eComic commands are now only visible if they are useful (e.g. "mark as read" for an eComic not in the library)
• CHANGE: Gradient shadows for the covers/pages (easier on the eyes)
• CHANGE: Nicer error page (not the red monster anymore :))
• CHANGE: Found a workaround for the "gearwheel" performance problem -> default is now animate
  

• BUG: Drawing of columns was not correct when horizontally scrolled
• BUG: Metadata was in some cases still written to eComic files even if turned off in advanced settings
• BUG: File explorer did not remember last folder
• BUG: Fixed wrong "Nothing Selected" text in Small Preview
• BUG: Small Preview still displayed unselected books
• BUG: Fixed wrong scaling in "Adjust Color" page preview
• BUG: Fixed part overlay was not updated if visible and new part count was 1
• BUG: Fixed unneeded update of page after first OK in Prefrences dialog

hf

Shutdown, Log Off... again

So I looked again into this matter today.

I rewrote the whole shutdown stuff, so the next release will include the final fix of the problem and also will not block shutdown/log off any longer while running.

ComicRack v 0.9.33 released

Pandoras Box, that's what I opened when changing the shutdown procedure of ComicRack to correctly handle the event of a logoff/shutdown of the system.

All kinds GUI settings (windows positions, list setups etc) where no longer saved correctly.

The old way to do it was to close the main window of ComicRack, this would update the settings and THEN the settings where saved to disk. Funny thing with Windows is, that from the moment the main window of an application is closed in the case of a shutdown event, no codes is executed anymore. The process simply ceases to exist. It's always nice to uncover some of the absurdities of 20+ years of windows backwards compatibility.

So from now on ComicRack will simply prohibit the system from shutdown. Close ComicRack, than make a shutdown. Not the most elegant solution, but the simplest one.

Build 0.9.33:

• CHANGE: ComicRack now prohibits the system to shutdown while running. This solves a lot of the problems of lost configuration settings (view settings, list settings etc.)

ComicRack v 0.9.32 released

As always, lots of coding usually mean some errors.
Hope the worst is fixed now.

Build 0.9.32:

• CHANGE: List optimizations
  

• BUG: Even when Text was turned off for thumbnails, a small selection was drawn
• BUG: Wrong tooltip for the Fill button of the browser
• BUG: Column Autosize in Pages List was broken
• BUG: Layout changes where not saved anymore (introduces in 0.9.29)

ComicRack v 0.9.31 released

This will be it for this week. Did all the things I planned to do and more :)

The new fade in of thumbnails gives the application a much calmer feeling.
Switching back to 256 pixels for thumbnails has IMHO a neglectable influence on display quality, but is a huge performance improvement.

As always, finally the (very) short list of changes.

Build 0.9.31:

• NEW: Fade in of thumbnails
  

• CHANGE: With all the new visual stuff for thumbnails (fade in, page curl, peek into inside of comics) I came to the conclusion that the performance hit of 512 pixel thumbnails is just too big.
  Switched back to 256 pixels.

ComicRack v 0.9.30 released

Quick, small and fast. That's how we do builds here :)

Build 0.9.30:

• NEW: Background saving of changed data
  

• BUG: Fixed crossthread bug in combination with the optional python script console
• BUG: Fixed gray lines in quicksearch textbox

ComicRack v 0.9.29 released

Some call it coding rampage :)
This release adds some new features and one major bugfix.

Build 0.9.29:

• NEW: Full Browser mode (totally hidden reader)
• NEW: Optional automatic open of previous/next comic when reaching beginning/end while reading
• NEW: Grouping by Year
• NEW: Mouse Buttons Left, 4 and 5 are now assignable in the reader
  

• CHANGE: View button text is static now
• CHANGE: Nicer looking quicksearch
• CHANGE: Show Browser Menu/Popup command
  

• BUG: Some parts of the Comic Book Dialog where enabled even when remote
• BUG: Wrong icon for Show Previous Comic in Keyboard shortcut editor
• BUG: Finally fixed the data loss when ComicRack was forced to close with a shutdown or logoff

ComicRack v 0.9.28 released

This one refines scripting, adds some new properties (tag, imprint), allows to define own shortcuts for the Reader and has some general user interface refinements.

With this version it should now really be possible to interactively write scripts in python for Comicrack. Some of the default commands (Autonumber wizard, commit proposed) are now written in python and can be used as reference. When i finally get around to bring the comicrack website up, i also add some reference api stuff there. For now, ask in the forum if you want to create something :)

Build 0.9.28:

• NEW: Tags property for eComics
• NEW: Imprint property for eComics
• NEW: Added Script output window (display with -showscriptconsole or -scc command line switch)
• NEW: Disabling of script compilations (-disablescriptoptimization or -dso command line switch). This allows to dynamically edit scripts while Comicrack is running
• NEW: Script settings in preferences (enable/disable, library paths)
• NEW: User definable keyboard shortcuts for the reader
• NEW: Auto Fit all columns command
  

• CHANGE: New layout of commands in Main Menu
• CHANGE: New layout for Comic Properties Dialog
• CHANGE: Converted Autonumber Wizard & Commit Proposed to scripts
• CHANGE: Textfields will use the proposed (gray) values as initial text to edit
• CHANGE: Better mouse selection in the browsers (no "empty space" selection anymore)
• CHANGE: Made cursor & wheel scrolling more usable (speed and accuracy)
• CHANGE: Some keyboard shortcuts
• CHANGE: Moved Unread/read/reading filter into the view menu of the browser
• CHANGE: Combined all the quicksearch stuff into one control
• CHANGE: Removed the list options button from the browser toolbar
  

• BUG: Fixed wrong hiding of cursor (introduced in 0.9.27)
• BUG: If last opened comicbook was deleted, it was re-added to the library during next start

hf