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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+