What's new in Comic Collector for macOS? (page 2)
Next week, Apple will release the new macOS 10.13 “High Sierra”.
If you are planning to update your Mac to this new OS, then we strongly recommend to update your Comic Collector software to today’s version 17.0.5!
Comic Collector problems on High Sierra:
We have been testing our software on beta versions of High Sierra for quite a while, to make sure we were ready for it’s release. We found that most of the software seems to be working as normal.
Unfortunately, we found a big problem in the Preferences screen, it does not open at all anymore, making it impossible to make any changes to program settings.
Luckily, our Mac developer Ronald was able to fix the Preferences screen to make it work on the new macOS. A fix was released today, in version 17.0.5.
Fixed
- Preferences screen didn’t load properly on macOS 10.13 “High Sierra”.
- Upload Cover to CLZ Core: Images were not always uploaded properly even if they were within the 500KB file size limit.
- Main Screen: Quick Search: Occasional crashes in the quick search when using the “Search-as-you-type” suggestions.
- Sync with CLZ Cloud: Sometimes crashed during the upload of covers.
Fixed
- Add Comics Automatically: the cursor in the search series title box would sometimes jump to the end while changing the search term.
- Upload cover to CLZ Core: sometimes images were not uploaded properly because of the 500K size restriction although they were smaller in size.
We’ve expanded the quick search box to now also allow “search-as-you-type” with suggestions for pick list fields.
How does it work?
In the quick search box top right of your screen you should see a “dropdown” button. Use this to select which field you wish to perform a search on. If “search-as-you-type” is available for that field, it will instantly work once you start typing in the box.
Example
You can now select the field “Publisher” in the quick search box, start typing a publisher name, and instantly see suggestions (based on what you typed) of publishers you have in your database. Click on a publisher to see all comics of that publisher.
Try it with the “Character” field too! Instantly filter down to all comics have that specific character in them.
Fixed:
- Program would crash at startup on macOS 10.9 or older
- Search-As-You-Type tweaked to search first letters of each word only, making the results more precise
- Add Comics Automatically : image popup for cover was showing the images of the selected item in main screen
- Add Comics Automatically : Search-As-You-Type stopped working after closing and reopening add screen
V17.0.1: Major updates to the Quick Search and Image Viewer popup!
Quick Search: Search-As-You-Type suggestions
Instantly find and select a particular series in your local database:
- In the Quick Search box, just start typing the first few letters of the series you are looking for.
- While typing, a drop-down list will appear, showing the first five matching series.
(for most series, it only takes 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.) - Once you see the one you were looking for, use the up/down keys to select it, then hit Enter.
- The series will now be selected in your folder panel, with the issues showing in the list panel.
NOTE: this Search-As-You-Type feature replaces the old “filter-as-you-type” behaviour of the Quick Search box. If you want to go back to the old behaviour, you can do so in the Preferences screen, on the Behaviour page using the setting called “When typing in Quick Search box”.
Fixed:
- Edit Screen: Content: adding a cover for a story/TPB Issue, was resulting in adding a cover for the main issue.
- Edit Screen: Cover Popups were not always prompted on macOS Sierra.
Fixed:
- Crash: Add Comics Automatically screen could be prompted while using the program.
Fixed:
- Cards View: Quick Search didn’t filter the cards in the list.
- First Letter folder option was not using the Sort Names.
- Loan Manager Screen: Search was not working.
- Sierra: Full Screen Mode: “Add Cover” popup appears under the Edit Screen.
- Internal Images: Templates images were not updated after editing an item.
- When no internet connection was available, app was launched in Trial Mode.
- Templates : HTML content in Plots was not formatted correctly.
Fixed:
- Main Screen: after resizing the first column too much, the text was no longer readable
- Edit Comic: Closing the edit screen could cause a crash on El Capitan
Fixed:
- Main screen: switching from details to statistics would crash the program
v16.1.3: Fixed a startup problem for some macOS versions
Fixed:
- Program would crash on startup or load incorrectly for OS older than Sierra
New:
- Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
- Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
- The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.
Fixed:
- Fixed Fullscreen Popups on macOS Sierra
v16.1.1: New: “Search-As-You-Type” in Add Automatically screen
New: “Search-As-You-Type” suggestions when adding comics by title
If you are adding most of your comics “By Title”, then this will be a huge time-saver.
Here’s how the new “Search-As-You-Type” feature works:
- In the Add Comics Automatically screen, just start typing the first letters of the series title you want to add issues for.
- While typing, a drop-down list will appear, instantly showing the five most popular series that match,
including the date range, the number of issues contained and a small thumbnail image. - For popular series, it usually takes only 2 or 3 letters before it shows up.
For older or less popular series, type a few more letters. - Once you see your series appear, use the arrow keys to select it, then hit Enter.
- Then under Search Results, that exact series will be listed, with its’ issue list.
Fixed:
- Check for Update was broken for macOS Sierra.
- Templates were broken when User Defined Field headers contained special characters.
- CLZ Cloud: Down sync: Fixed an issue causing possible duplication of series.
Fixed:
- CLZ Cloud Sync: Fixed a crash when down-syncing a new comic.
- CLZ Cloud Sync: Series: Sort Names were not always synced.
- Add Auto: When adding a new Comic, customised Series Names were overwritten.
- 2 Panel Mode: Folders were always sorted by article.
- Folders: Preference “Ignore SortName of Person Item” was not working.
Fixed:
- Edit In List: some checkboxes didn’t trigger a sync change
- Cards View: Find Cover: select new cover. New Cover was not displayed.
- Add Auto: Queue mode > Add Selected: sometimes all (not selected) queue items were added
- Main Screen: 2 Horizontal Panels: Layout Sizes were not restored
- Add Automatically: By Barcode: Sometimes a new comic was added without barcode
- Manage Pick Lists: Didn’t always show any warning for duplicate items
v16.0.7: Added barcode icon back into the template and some more fixes
Fixed:
- Add Auto screen: “automatically close after queue is emptied” was not working
- Table Sorting: Empty values were not sorted correctly
- Edit In List: Edit Read It & Changing Date didn’t trigger a “sync change”
- Template: Barcode icon was missing
New:
- New Maintenance tool: Tools > Maintenance > Open database location
- Add Auto/Update Settings: Include links from Collectorz Core
Fixed:
- Add Auto: QuickFill: Collection Status wasn’t set correctly
- Stories UDF were not saved
- Sort by Series Column: now it sorts the Series Issues too
- Template: Links section fixed
Fixed:
- Add auto screen: “Collection Status” setting was not working properly
- Images View: Newly added items with “Add Automatically” were not selected
Fixed:
- Templates: changing Read It/Rating didn’t trigger a change for syncing
- Templates: 2 panels mode with selected folder: selection was lost after changing “Read It”
- Edit in List: Edit Rating was not working
- Templates: Online Links: “https” URLs didn’t open
- Cover Flow panel now has a black background
- Performance: Statistics are no longer updated if not necessary
- Sort Sets selection was sometimes lost after restarting the app
- Main Screen: “Collection status” filter selection was not remembered after restarting the app
Fixed:
- Menu: “View > Cards” item was missing
- Cards View was not working on Mavericks
- Add automatically: edit screen wasn’t opening after adding a comic
- Delete Orphan Images: TPB Covers were always deleted
Fixed:
- List View could crash after opening the program, making it seem like no database was open.
“v16.0.1: Movie Collector V16: Quicksilver” is locked v16.0.1: Movie Collector V16: Quicksilver
New view for the main screen: Card View
Next to List View, Images View and Cover Flow, we have added a Card View, a multi-column view with little info cards for each comic, showing the main issue details and a small cover thumbnail.