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LongBox Digital Platform v0.9.12

Changes, Alterations, and New Features in this build.    

 

SERVERS & INFRASTRUCTURE

  • -    Massive Changes and Optimizations

 

GENERAL UI CHANGES

  • -    Standardized buttons, margins, skins font styles and font weights
  • -    “Global” Buttons and Functions for ‘next’, ‘back’, ‘Previous’, “Close”, “Add”, etc
  • -    Condensed Main App UI Bar – All “Theme”/Skin Items now contained there.

 

START SCREEN

  • –    New Layout emphasizing Featured Comics and New Releases.
  • -    Layout Standardization for all screens
  • -    Cleanly supports all resolutions now (netbook to widescreen)
  • -    Can download subscribed titles from Start Screen
  • -    Can add New Releases to cart from StartScreen
  • -    Accurate listing of number of comics purchased
  • -    Accurate Listing of the number of ComicBlocks user has.

 

OPTIONS – General

  • -    Cleaned Up layout and use of standardized buttons.

 

OPTIONS - Accounts

  • -    Ability to manage Account settings
  • -    User can Deauthorize registered machines remotely
  • -    Change Password
  • -    Set Personal Rating/Content shown
  • -    Ability to select directory for content.

 

OPTIONS – Sub-Accounts

  • -    Ability to create Sub-Accounts
  • -    Specify settings for each SubAccount
  • -    Ability to Edit Sub-accounts
  • -    Ability to give Comic Blocks to Sub-Accounts
  • -    Sub Account Content is shared with Master Account.

 

LOG IN/LOG OUT

  • -    Ability to Auto Log In
  • -    Ability to remember all accounts used on device
  • -    Ability to Log In using ‘offline’ mode, to read and access already downloaded files without internet    connection.
  • -    Ability to reset password, emailing temp password to registered email account.

 

STOREFRONT & LIBRARY

  • -  New Layout
  • -  Standardized navigation buttons, and ‘discoverable’ interface
  • -  New ‘Display Criteria’ Function – Allows for easier quick navigation and exploration-based discovery of new titles.
    • NOTE: Publisher, Genre, & Association Display are turned off in the 0.9.12 build.
  • -    New List Mode
    • NOTE: New List Mode is 70% complete. Meets previous function and exceeds it, but does not use new functions for sort and display groupings.
  • -    LIBRARY – Displays titles by “association” and ‘Title’ Stacks.
  • -    LIBRARY – Displays when user has purchased title, but does not have it currently on device they are using (‘broken’ symbol)
  • -    LIBRARY – Allows user to re-download title(s) with one click from Library in either Tile or List Mode
  • -    LIBRARY – Added ‘Import Content’ button
  • -    LIBRARY – Imported Content now has top-level user-editable metadata
  • -    LIBRARY – Download History revised with improved file and history management.

 

CART

  • -    LBX Promo Codes – App now redeems promotional codes in the Shopping Cart
  • -    Wishlist – User’s wishlist is now saved and propagated to server/across all registered devices
  • -    ComicBlocks – Users can now purchase ComicBlocks, allowing them to purchase titles within the LBX StoreFront.
  • -    Founding Member – Users can now purchase Gold Memberships, which during the last phase of the Beta will be promoted to ‘Founding Members’ (Founding Member status does not expire)

 

READER

  • -    Removed QuickNav Shelf of Thumbnail Page views
  • -    Removed Confusing Zoom Navigation Mode.
  • -    Reader Control Menu is now an ‘auto roll-up’ shelf.
  • -    Reader Control Menu can be ‘pinned’ in up or down position by the user.
  • -    All Enhanced Content controls will be on the left side of the Reader Control Menu
  • -    All Standard reader features will be available on the Right Side of the Reader Control Menu.
  • -    User can use the ‘hide’ arrow in the upper Right Corner to hide the entire upper UI shelf in the Reader screen.
  • -    User can now access the different modes and fumnctions of the Reader by selecting the ‘Reader Display Mode’ button in the upper Left Corner
  • -    Clicking button gives button overlay, allowing for Book (where applicable), Chapter, Page, or Zoom mode.
  • -    Clicking Zoom brings up sub-menu of zoom modes applicable to the current comic file (Page Width, Sequential Panel, or Free Zoom)
  • -    The ‘Standard Return’ button or the ‘esc’ key drops the user back out of the Display Mode menus.
  • -    Selecting Chapter brings up large, scrollable versions of all of the pages in that chapter.
    • Unread Pages are ‘masked’ to protect spoilers.
    • Double clicking a page takes the user back into ‘Page’ reader mode.
  • -    Added multi-finger swipe support in Mac.
  • -    Added 4-way middle mouse support in Win7+