Sayuri Hime 05 - My My Girl
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Shikabane Hime 20
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Well, I'm slowly gaining interest back. But that only means small stuff goes a tiny bit slightly faster. At the time of SH 20 being edited, we had a new editor (nick)named Lucy but she had to leave. These sayuri hime stuff were stuck in a hole for who knows how long, but there's a couple more in the works.
Whether Shikabane Hime will be able to continue under us remains to be seen. I'm only clearing out moldy oldy stuff at this point, which currently doesn't include any more of Shikabane Hime.

I will also like to note that you guys with RSS feeds are friggin' ninjas. Already receiving views about 20 seconds after I upload something.

Edit: Right, we also have an Android application for the reader, which may or may not make it easier for you to browse (should be easier). It is for versions 2.2 (Frozen Yogurt) and up.

Thank you so much! I am especially delighted to see another chapter of Shikabane Hime released.

Who's awesome? You're awesome!
Er, you as in everyone who helped out. I'm really happy to see some embers are still glowing, though I would've been fine as long as one vanished off the face of the planet....

Thanks!

Oh, good, I was hoping we'd still push that last SH out. Didn't want my script to go to waste.

You guys are kinda tsundere, lol. But yeah, thanks for whatever you decide to put out.

Who's awesome? I'm awesome!

http://dynasty-scans.com/reader/chapters/test

this is your greatest work by far, how come you didnt post its release on the front page?

GendoIkari wrote

http://dynasty-scans.com/reader/chapters/test

this is your greatest work by far, how come you didnt post its release on the front page?

It is awesome indeed, but it's not for the faint of heart, which is why we decided not to post it on the front page.

AquarianDemocrat wrote

I can't believe I registered just to ask a stupid question, but the link in the comment above: http://dynasty-scans.com/reader/chapters/test bring me to a 404 page and it's driving me crazy. What is it and where can I read/download it?

I'm afraid you probably missed out. Unless they re-post it

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AquarianDemocrat wrote

I can't believe I registered just to ask a stupid question, but the link in the comment above: http://dynasty-scans.com/reader/chapters/test bring me to a 404 page and it's driving me crazy. What is it and where can I read/download it?

It was discovered by mortals, thus it had to be destroyed.

AquarianDemocrat wrote

...

No one even wants to tell me what it was? Is it worth searching for?

You could search for all eternity but I assure you, you won't find it.

All it was, was a test upload of a single page for us to figure out the problem on our side of uploading stuff. There are tons better stuff for you to read than to look at our test uploads for testing purposes, seriously.

MrEngenious wrote

All it was, was a test upload of a single page for us to figure out the problem on our side of uploading stuff. There are tons better stuff for you to read than to look at our test uploads for testing purposes, seriously.

Party pooper. Lol

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http://dynasty-scans.com/reader/chapters/test
I don't know what you guys are talking about because the link totally works for me. It's a coupon for ONE FREE INTERNET = P

But anyways, thanks a bunch for finishing Shikabane Hime chp20. I hope things work well with finding a new editor for this.

I just noticed the android application, and I love the idea. It seems to be a bit of a beta, and I wanted to give some feed back; this seems to be the relevant place to do it.

A bit of background: I am programmer irl, mostly .net, python and javascript/html. I have developed for windows mobile(unfortunately), I have written a c# windows comic viewer, have familiarity with java, and would be willing to help with development either as a tester or as a coder. I have the ability to build, test and debug android apps.

1) You might want to consider scaling the pages to fit the window initially. It is a mobile app, so while some zooming and panning is probably going to be required, I've always found it nice to see the entire page first and then worry about what I can and cant read.

2) I love the icon, I really do, but I just think that maybe the link to lesbian comic book porn on my mobile phone could use some subtly. Its just so when my kid cousin gets tired of angrybirds, I don't get awkward questions about what akiko is doing to mari. or get known as the guy with lesbian comic book porn on his cell phone. I get the feeling that no amount of explaining would make it go away, and I would have to change my name and live out my shame in a different city.

3) Swiping would be nice, along with the option to change reading order from left-to-right to right-to-left.

that's about it. I would suggest that the development team check out the "Perfect Reader" application to see a really well done mobile comic reader.

Hello, I am the development team for the Android app, so here's my answers to your questions.

ender89 wrote

1) You might want to consider scaling the pages to fit the window initially. It is a mobile app, so while some zooming and panning is probably going to be required, I've always found it nice to see the entire page first and then worry about what I can and cant read.

I agree that scaling consistently would be awesome. Getting this stuff to display properly in a webview and scroll to the top-right (which is not (0,0), so the width must be measured) is not trivial, much time was spent fiddling to get it to this stage.

Measuring the width is a train wreck. It doesn't just count pixels, since there are scale factors to be considered. I'm assuming each page is the same size, which they're sometimes not and that's generally responsible for some of the wonky behavior. If ICS has added the ability to scroll to the top right, then things will be much better, at least on that platform. Either way I intend to continue supporting Android back to 2.1 (API level 8) more or less indefinitely.

ender89 wrote

2) I love the icon, I really do, but I just think that maybe the link to lesbian comic book porn on my mobile phone could use some subtly. Its just so when my kid cousin gets tired of angrybirds, I don't get awkward questions about what akiko is doing to mari. or get known as the guy with lesbian comic book porn on his cell phone. I get the feeling that no amount of explaining would make it go away, and I would have to change my name and live out my shame in a different city.

This has been mentioned before (though it may have been in reference to this post?). I don't care either way. Changing the icon won't help against curious kids tapping whatever app comes under their finger. At least it takes several clicks to get from the icon to the tits. I am no artist; Mi_chan made that icon for me. If someone wants to make another to the Android icon specs, I will cheerfully swap them.

ender89 wrote

3) Swiping would be nice, along with the option to change reading order from left-to-right to right-to-left.

I agree, but there are reasons why this is challenging. First, wanting to pinch zoom, scroll in two dimensions, and tap the sides to turn the page required me to write some of my own click handling code for the (subclass of) webview. And it's really easy to confuse a swipe and a lateral scroll. Lateral scrolling is very common here because pages don't always fit on the device neatly. See the Gmail app on ICS for an example of this problem, if you have an email that scrolls horizontally it's tricky to get it not to swipe to the next/previous message.

Thanks for the pointer to Perfect Reader. When I first started this project, I went looking for a good open source reader which I would fork and strap the Dynasty Reader interface to, saving myself a great deal of trouble. Perfect Reader is free but not open source, unfortunately. Maybe I could contact the developer, but he'd probably want to know what site and ahem.

I'm adding support for the tags on the reader tonight. I may revisit the webview/scrolling/etc. on ICS and see if anything has been added to the API that would make my life better.

harawa wrote

lyGetting this stuff to display properly in a webview and scroll to the top-right (which is not (0,0), so the width must be measured) is not trivial, much time was spent fiddling to get it to this stage.

Measuring the width is a train wreck. It doesn't just count pixels, since there are scale factors to be considered. I'm assuming each page is the same size, which they're sometimes not and that's generally responsible for some of the wonky behavior. If ICS has added the ability to scroll to the top right, then things will be much better, at least on that platform.

You are using webview? You should be able to make this infinitely easier on yourself with a little JavaScript to handle all the scaling and zooming woes. I suggest you check out sencha touch (http://www.sencha.com/products/touch). Its a JavaScript library for creating HTML 5 webapps for touchscreen devices, complete with multitouch goodness. Actually, if you find you are basically wrapping everything in webview, you might want to consider writing the whole app in html5 and using phonegap to compile it to an apk. The benefit of that is you can pretty much build the app for every platform, including webos and blackberry (though good luck getting it on apples app store). I realize that you already have a ton of work put in to be writing it off for a new approach, but I suppose a little info never hurts.

I don't remember if I offered my assistance in my last comment, but I'm totally willing to help in any way I can (it seems I have some time on my hands since the scanilation seemingly ground to a halt a few months back).