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GravityFX reviewed v0.2.1.24 Beta 3 on Apr 5, 2007

This program no longer developed. You can visit online based comics here http://goio.net/comics

GravityFX reviewed v0.2 on Apr 4, 2007

I've re-archived all the comix files to zip format now. Also I have resumed development of ComiX.

ToeKneeC reviewed v0.2.1 Beta 3 on Apr 16, 2006

I agree. Everyone with XP can unzip. You have to make the download zip...even if RAR is better.

As for the program. It rocks. Clean, fast, simple, does what it says. Very little hard drive space.

Once it can get Get Fuzzy - my wife says I can donate :)

wizard68sc3 reviewed v0.2.1 Beta 3 on Apr 16, 2006

.rar is great, but if you would use .zip i would give it a higher rating, plus i would use it.

LeifLarsson reviewed v0.2.1 Beta 3 on Apr 16, 2006

Thanks for this update! Now it's very nearly perfect! Great! Works like a dream.

hap8192739 reviewed v0.2.1 Beta 3 on Apr 15, 2006

Program freezes up when executed.

GravityFX3 reviewed v0.2.1 Beta 3 on Apr 15, 2006

Its only 65.1 KB in size =) Not 651 KB.

GravityFX3 reviewed v0.2.1 Beta 2 on Apr 1, 2006

Thank You everyone, for comments an ratings =)

The MAZZTer reviewed v0.2.1 Beta 1 on Mar 13, 2006

Neat little app. But I was very disappointed I could not add my own webcomics to it.

It needs an easy way to do this. One simple way would be a format where you give it a URL and tell it where the image and back/forward buttons are. (In a format similar to what the Remove It Permanantly extention for Firefox uses... ie /html/body/div would identify a lone div tag in the body, /html/body/div[3] would identify the third div tag in body, and you could drill down as many levels of tags as needed.)

Here's my idea for what a sample definition file, might look like:

[comic]
[DisplayName]Ozy and Millie[/DisplayName]
[LatestComic url="http://www.ozyandmillie.org/"]
[!-- The fixed url of the page where the latest comic appears --]
[ComicXPath]
/html/body/div[1]/a/img
[/ComicXPath]
[!-- The current comic image --]
[PreviousXPath]
/html/body/div[1]/p[2]/a[2]
[/PreviousXPath]
[!-- Link to the page with the previous comic --]
[/LatestComic]
[Archive templateurl="http://www.ozyandmillie.org/
%yyyy%/om%yyyy%%mm%%dd%.html"]
[!-- Template where a day, month, and year can be stuck in to pull up a comic for that date --]
[ComicXPath]
/html/body/div[1]/a/img
[/ComicXPath]
[!-- The image xpath on an archive page. --]
[PreviousXPath]
/html/body/div[2]/p/a[1]
[/PreviousXPath]
[NextPath]
/html/body/div[2]/p/a[5]
[/NextXPath]
[!-- Previous and Next links on any archive page --]
[/Archive]
[/comic]

Something like that should be simple enough to code with a good XML parsing library.

At any rate, the list shouldn't be hardcoded.

[Edit: Pretend those are XML tags, BetaNews hates me.]

henrypeck reviewed v0.2.1 Beta 1 on Mar 4, 2006

Great program. Maybe I'll cancel my newspaper delivery.

GravityFX3 reviewed v0.2.1 Beta 1 on Mar 4, 2006

Sorry, but I will not rewrite my code in any way to allow this kind of xml manipulation. I will however create more customizable features in next releases.

gawd21 reviewed v0.2.1 Beta 1 on Mar 4, 2006

Great idea, still doesn't work correctly; the images don't fit in the windows and you have to resize it each time you change comic, the settings.ini is pointless, as the program doesn't read it. I have changed every setting and it has made NO changes to the program when I load it. My default image size was 3, not 1 and it doesn't make one iota of difference if I change it to anything else. I even deleted the settings.ini and it loads the same. Needs a little more work, but it is better that the last version I tested, version 0.1.

EDIT: I just checked it on two other computers, total of three computers, one Win 98SE and two XP Pro SP2. The settings.ini file was useless on all three computers. However, only on my computer was the image size and issue, but I believe that maybe due to Windows Blinds 5 using the RackAMP skin.

UTAKER reviewed v0.2 on Feb 5, 2006

GravityX keep on the good work
This simply goes on getting better and better! luv ya man

Diam0nd reviewed v0.2 on Feb 5, 2006

Superb application! + a good source of pictures to put in essays or any type :))

horsecharles reviewed v0.2 on Feb 5, 2006

Stupendous Man!

Diam0nd reviewed v0.2 Beta 2 on Feb 2, 2006

Excellent. This is very useful, entertaining and free. Keep up the good work! Thank you :)

horsecharles reviewed v0.2 Beta 2 on Feb 1, 2006

Okie Dokie-- now i'm additionally getting H thru Q...maybe the next update will bring R-Z?

ditroia reviewed v0.2 Beta 1 on Jan 31, 2006

Great Program, new comics are continually being integrated.

Changelog:

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v0.2 (beta 1) || January 23, 2006 ||
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[%] ComiX v0.2
[=] Complitly redesigned and recoded in new code base.
[+] Comic Strips; 5th Wave, 9 to 5, Adam@Home, Agnes, Alcaraz Lalo,
Anderson Nick, Andy Capp, Animal Crackers, Annie, Ask Shagg,
Asay Chuck, Auth Tony, Baldo, Ballard Street, BC, Benson Steve,
Big Top, Biographic, Bob the Squirrel, Bok Chip, Bo Nanas,
Boondocks, Bound and Gagged, Bottom Liners, Brainwaves,
Brenda Starr, Brewster Rockit, Broom Hilda, Carlson Stuart,
Catalino Ken, Cathy, Cest La Vie, CEO Dad, City, Clear Blue Water,
Cleats, Close to Home, Compu Toon, Conrad Paul, Cornered,
Danziger Jeff, Davies Matt, Deep Cover, Deering John, d*** Tracy,
Dinette Set, Dog Eat Doug, Doonesbury, Duplex, Elderberries,
Faces in the News, Flight Deck, Flo and Friends, Flying McCoys,
For Heavens Sake, FoxTrot, For Better or For Worse, Frank and Ernest,
Fred Basset, Fusco Brothers, Garfield, Gasoline Alley, Gil Thorp,
Ginger Meggs, Gorrell Bob.

Dave

mo_mo reviewed v0.2 Beta 1 on Jan 24, 2006

awesome simple program!! I LOVE IT!

horsecharles reviewed v0.2 Beta 1 on Jan 24, 2006

Only getting thru G.. no H-Z?

bourgeoisdude reviewed v0.2 Beta 1 on Jan 24, 2006

0.1 vs 0.2--before I download it whats the differences?

GravityFX3 reviewed v0.1 Beta 5 on Jan 12, 2006

I am working on ComiX v0.2 completly recoded and redesigned.

autumnsun reviewed v0.1 Beta 5 on Dec 1, 2005

Great program. Some suggestions, when the Previous/Next buttons aren't available, make them grayed out, I clicked on Next after starting the program before realizing that I was at the end. Also, it could be nice if you could put a "x of y" label that tells the user where they are in viewing the comics. Last, does this program automatically check for new comics everyday? If so, it would be nice if the program had another label that said something like "x new comics are available."

retroK reviewed v0.1 Beta 5 on Dec 1, 2005

Great little program. Changelog is here:
http://down.gravityfx.or...gelogs/gfx-cmx-clog.txt#

And| reviewed v0.1 Beta 5 on Dec 1, 2005

I couldnt get it to work either, gives me an error message.. Initialization error.

maleman reviewed v0.1 Beta 5 on Nov 30, 2005

could not get it to work somekind of error message

Das mod reviewed v0.1 Beta 5 on Nov 30, 2005

It delivers what it promises.

UTAKER reviewed v0.1 Beta 5 on Nov 30, 2005

I like it alot and it really works great but a changelog here would have been nice
screen stretching?
stretch to fit etc options to it would be great

KentuckyJay reviewed v0.1 Beta 4 on Sep 26, 2005

error problem here. I cannot seem to access this program although teh idea sounds great.

Error

"The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135).
I unistalled and reinstalled and still got the saem message.

GravityFX3 reviewed v0.1 Beta 4 on Sep 24, 2005

Brief description The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135).
Solution The older operating systems do not have the .NET Framework installed and simply installing .NET Framework Redistributable will resolve this error.

citizen420 reviewed v0.1 Beta 4 on Sep 21, 2005

Good app. love it.....
just a few features missing:
1. DILBERT

2. Fullscreen\_ OR
Slideshow / ComiX Screensaver :-)))

3. Better navigation with keyboard, options to configure controls/shortcuts.

kll reviewed v0.1 Beta 3 on Aug 24, 2005

Works nice, easy to use.

but i would like a favorits meny, but i bet that i will come in the final release.

compugeek32 reviewed v0.1 Beta 2 on Aug 16, 2005

Nice Program, except an error popped up at startup only at first. But other than that, I appreciate the effort done in the creation of this program...
Hopefully, more comic selections in the next version...

GravityFX3 reviewed v0.1 Beta 1 on Aug 12, 2005

Yes there will be a lot more comic strips. As for printing there is such feature already, just kind of hidden. Just click on the status bar and the default image viewer will open with comic strip!

tp reviewed v0.1 Beta 1 on Aug 12, 2005

works for me.. i like it. any more to be added? garfield? jumpstart? foxtrot? peanuts? marvin and betsy? family circus?

clifton reviewed v0.1 Beta 1 on Aug 12, 2005

And again nice idea but doesn't work.
Throws an error immediatly upon launch.

Cerviperus reviewed v0.1 Beta 1 on Aug 12, 2005

Very cool. I don't know what problem the user below is having, but so far I've gotten everything to come up flawlessly. Both color and B&W comics... sweet deal. This will give me something to kill time with at work! After I use it a while I'll try to post some suggestions and more feedback. (The 4 is only because this is obviously still in beta, and its comic selection is very limited.)

EDIT: To those of you having problems... do you have the Microsoft .NET Framework installed?

SUGGESTION: You should implement a way to send the images to a printer... that way if you come across one you like, you can print it out (rather than cutting it out of the newspaper).

gawd21 reviewed v0.1 Beta 1 on Aug 12, 2005

Nice idea but it doesn't work. I got a 404 on everyone. Keep working.