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Kryolyte Reader v1.0.6 |
Kryolyte Reader is a free comic book reader software coded with C#. The author, Kaustav Majumder coded this software to integrate the cool features of most of the popular comic book reader softwares available on the net. The software was coded with a view to reach out to comic book fans and keep the comic books alive.
Versions 1.0.0 through 1.0.4
The Kryolyte Reader project was started single handedly by Kaustav Majumder.
These versions were built in the early stages of the software development. The author was struggling to load an image into the C# Application when the project started.
He had to dpo a lot of digging on the net.
Initially the software targetted the Dot Net Framework Version 4.0.
Later it was Framework was deliberately downgraded to 2.0 for two reasons:
- First off, the software did not use any Dot net Framework 4.0 components. The target was always to make the software and simple as light as possible.
- And most importantly, to reach out to a wide audience, even to those who are still stuck to Windows XP.
This downgrading of the framework was ironic indeed as the author himself likes to upgrade and advance in the field of technology.
Version 1.0.5
Version 1.0.5 was the official release on the net. it was first uploaded to Sourceforge and then linked on the Kryolyte Technologies homepaage.
This version was a major makeover over its previous 1.0.4 version.
Noticable improvements were:
- Zooming the page was centered to the current location of the mouse cursor.
- Best fit, Fit to height, Fit to width features were added. New buttons were provided in the toolbar for the same.
- Cool icons were created for the CBR, CBZ and CB7 formats.
Version 1.0.6
The previous version was a memory-hungry release. The memory (RAM) occupied by the software was directly proportion to the number of pages a comic-book had (and hence loaded at runtime).
This problem was thoroughly studied and finally fixed.
Other than this major change, minor tweaks were:
- The 16x16 (small) icons for the supported formats were re-designed.
- The software was finally documented (for the first time).
