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    Comic Reading Software: Thumbs?

    This thread is concerned with .CBR and .CBZ comic files. I'm sure there must be some of you who also scan your comics or image collections into this format for ease of use.

    I use cdisplay. I think it's great. Clearly, the resultant files are based on either RAR (for .CBR) or ZIP (for .CBZ) archives.

    HOWEVER, one feature I would really, really like to implement is the ability to use the first image file in the comic archive file as a thumb/ icon for that particular comic. For example, let's say there was a comic called "frogSpawn", I would want to use image "frogSpawn001.jpg" as the icon/ thumb view for that comic in explorer. This would mean that, using Large Icon view in Windows, you would be able to scan your comic collection by covers, as well as just by number, instead of just the standard cdisplay icon.

    So, my question is: does anyone know of either
    1) a comic reading app that does this
    2) an app that may allow you to generate a preview of a RAR or ZIP collection of images, based on the first (sequentially) image in that archive?

    Hopefully I've explained that clearly. I am aware of Comic Rack which allows you to preview covers INSIDE itself (not generated in Explorer) but I find it really, really slow, and can't get it to categorise properly. I would also be looking at integrating a cover-thumb-generating facility into Media Centre/ MediaBrowser some how so that comics could be accessed throguh those programs, but that will require me learning to program first

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    Re: Comic Reading Software: Thumbs?

    Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

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    Re: Comic Reading Software: Thumbs?

    Quote Originally Posted by Shooty* View Post
    Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
    The functionality needs to be added to Explorer itself in the form of a shell extension - I've tried this and this (for the latter, run "regthumbs.bat" in the installation folder to register CDispShell.dll), but I can't make either work in Windows 7 x64, even running the 32-bit version of Explorer as per the instructions here. I've tried manually hacking around in the Registry, but to no great effect, largely I suspect on the grounds that I don't really know what I'm doing.

    If you're running a different OS (or the same one for that matter), you could give them a try and see if you have any more luck....

    This on the other hand does work, but it's really just an alternative file manager and probably isn't quite what you're looking for.

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