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    Linking Titles

    in Feature Suggestions

    Posted

    It would help navigation in comicbase to have some kind of hyperlink to titles that follow or precede each other.

    For example X-Men 1st series title screen would have a link to Uncanny X-Men  1st Series.

    Other examples would be West Coast Avengers and Avengers West Coast. There are many other examples.

    It would also be good if Uncanny X-Men 1st Series has a link back to X-Men 1st Series.

    There are titles that have changed their names many times and it would make navigating through them easier.

    To take this idea one step further it would be excellent if the user could create their own hyperlinks between titles or even issues. It would allow us to create for example a read order of comics especially useful for crossover events. Or even if you say for example want to read the X-Men/mutant titles in order.

     

    Possible media file bug

    in Tech Support

    Posted

    Hi , I will describe waht happens.

    I add a media file to an issue.

    The media file play icon appears.

    When I click on it nothing happens.

    Then if I go to the previous title, and then forward back to the title I was on the media icon play icon for that issue has disappeared.

    However if I open the media file folder for the title via another issue which has a media file and drag and drop the new media into the folder all is well.

    It means I can't add a media file to any issue in a title that doesn't already have a media file folder.

    problem since last update 2021

    in Tech Support

    Posted

    I think there is an issue with viewing media - i.e. I can't see mine and I have the correct file path.

    When I add new media it goes into the correct folder and the media icon does appear next to the picture icon but the media doesn't open by clicking the media icon, and the show media in file explorer option remains greyed out.

    Picture Files

    in Content and Corrections

    Posted

    There are instances where the existing picture file is "preliminary" or just the wrong picture but when I upload the correct one because it is a smaller file size it does not seem to replace the existing file.

    Sometimes to test the theory I upload the correct picture file having stored it in my database.

    Then a couple of weeks later I do download covers to find that my correct picture is replaced by the old original incorrect one.

    I may be wrong but any thoughts?

    Appearances in ComicBase

    in News & General Discussion

    Posted

    Three more dilemmas have arisen since reading the ComicBase archives:

    1) When a character is impersonating another i.e. The Skrulls or Mystique impersonating for example Iceman.

    2) When a character is a clone

    3) When a character is seen in a dream/vision/flashback

    The complications deepen!

    Cascão

    in Tech Support

    Posted

    When uploaded corrections to any title with an accent above an "a" i.e. ã generates a server error at the comicbase end and the corrections don't go through.

    The also occurs when there is an accent above a letter "o" in a title.

    Appearances in ComicBase

    in News & General Discussion

    Posted

    Appearances in ComicBase

     

    ComicBase has the facility to record appearances in the appearances field. This involves flipping through a comic book and recording each character (or team?)– separating each with a comma and a space.

    Why would this be useful?

    I can think of three reasons and all involve searches:

    ·         Sales: I sometimes get asked what comics I have got in stock with for example Iron man. It would be useful to quickly find a list of all the comics I have with him in them.

    ·         Reading: I might want to find all the comics with for example Iceman appearing in and then read them in order to see the character’s story and development through the years.

    Obviously for this to work I would want Marvel editions only excluding re-prints and foreign comics appearances.

    ·         Buying: I might want to own all the appearances of my favourite character for example Wolverine so that I can collect or read them all. Again I would not be interested in foreign re-prints.

    Comic Base used to list appearances on the issue screen under the writers and artists and clicking on a characters name used to bring up other issues with that character in.

    Also I think we used to be able to search on appearances, I am not very good with the search function and am not certain if this is still possible.

    Recording appearances is fraught with difficulty.

    To illustrate let us imagine a comic containing the X-Men: Iceman, Wolverine, Kitty Pryde.

    In the appearances do we list their codenames or real names or both?

    Do we list the X-Men as a team in the appearances?

    Is Iceman to be listed as Bobby Drake (Iceman) or Iceman (Bobby Drake) or Iceman, or Bobby Drake or some combination of these?

    Is Bobby Drake even right should we be calling him Robert Drake?

    Let’s take Wolverine.

    Do we record him as Wolverine or Logan or James Howlett or Patch or Weapon X or a combination of these and do we use brackets e.g. Wolverine (Logan) or Logan (Wolverine)?

    Kitty Pryde:

    Kitty Pryde or Katherine Pryde or Kate Pryde. Codenames include Shadowcat and Sprite. Multiple combinations are possible. With or without brackets?

    Then we have had characters who have shared the same codenames for example Thunderbird in the X-Men. Thunderbird 1 and Thunderbird 2?

    Then we have characters from different realities so for example Wolverine from the Ultimate series of X-Men comics. The Age of Apocalypse versions of X-Men characters.

    Then we have time travel. Remember when the original X-Men came to the current X-Men time and had their own series  - do we record these the same as we recorded them the first time around?

    I won’t ramble on any longer, I for one would like some guidance about this issue so that data quality around this issue can be improved and may be hyperlinks/searches in Comicbase for characters come back and become useful.

    Possibly a subject for Comicbase livestream or Comicbase TV?

    Thanks for reading people.

    ComicBase Screensaver

    in Feature Suggestions

    Posted

    I loved the Comicbase screensaver but the old version now doesn't seem to work with the current version of windows and there is no new version on the Comic Base website to download.

    I would be happy to pay for an updated version.

    Windows 10 slideshow doesn't work with nested folders.

    Any chance?

    Titles with a lot of Issues closing down bug

    in Tech Support

    Posted

    If I close Comicbase just after being at a title with a lot of issues e.g. 2000 A.D.

    The next time I open comicbase it does not load however long I wait and I have to use taskmanager to close the program.

    The only way out is to load an old database which then loses the work I have been doing or to reinstall comicbase from scratch.

     

    One more thought

    in Feature Suggestions

    Posted

    I would like to be able to edit the main database window whilst viewing a picture.

    At the moment when I am viewing a picture, if I click on the database window the picture disappears behind the database window which is annoying.

    Even with 2 monitors once you start editing the main database window the picture window disappears.

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