mtao / multiscreenmanga

Multiscreen Manga Reader

Introduction

A Qt4-based manga reader that supports multiple monitors. Now, the dream of reading manga on two portrait monitors at once can be realized!

Requirements

• Qt 4 headers (apt-get install libqt4-dev)
• Cmake
• Poppler Qt4 bindings (apt-get install libpoppler-qt4-dev)

Qt Creator is also recommended as a nice IDE.

Build Instructions

Provided is a Makefile that simply invokes cmake. This means you can just:

$ cd MultiscreenManga; make;

This is equivalent to the long form series of commands:

$ cd MultiscreenManga; mkdir build; cd build; cmake ..; make;

multiscreenmanga's Issues

Create a better UI

Desired features: a directory tree and a thumbnail reel. Perhaps use QML, or Qt Designer to create this.

Support for reading a folder of files

Usecase: volume has already been extracted to a folder in the filesystem. We'd like to read all the valid files in a directory.

Use qt graphics view for rendering images + thumbnails

Instead of manually using a texture+quad we should take advantage of qt's graphics view framework, which will make many things (like collision detection for thumbnail selection) much easier
previously:
Would be nice to be able to open multiple pages in one renderwidget. basically the renderwidget would take on a multi-index and on destruction emit signals deallocating all of its indices at in an appropriate order

When more renderwidgets are openned than pages the pages flip

Basically the extra renderwidgets start flipping through pages. The solution should be a check of whether the selected page for a renderwidget is between bounds / only rendering when the current page is valid

Decrease memory consumption

current the memory consumption is prohibitively high. This definitely needs to be fixed (perhaps with a small prefetch window instead of loading whole volumes into memory)

Use libraries rather than shelling out for decompression

MM calls "unrar x" and "unzip", etc, for extracting archives. It'd be better to link against a library that does this for you, rather than having hidden runtime dependencies.