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Creating comic plugins (for comic plasmoid)

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The following tutorial describes how to create your own comic plugin.

I hope they give enough information to be usefull for you. If you have some questions post them here.

http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tut ... omicPlugin


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Is there a qtscript function for padding numbers with some character? Particularly zero-padding to a certain number of digits (like turning 123 to 00123)? A lot of "number" type comics seem to use zero-padding in the file names so I would like to know if there is a simple way to do this.


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I have to admit I'm not sure if there is a build in function, I doubt that though.

You can easily create your own function though, that you'd simply reuse in all the cases it is needed:

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function addPaddingZeros(number, desiredLength)
{
    var num = number.toString();
    while(num.length < desiredLength) {
        num = '0' + num;
    }

    return num;
}


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I found another way to do it. If you want to pad to four digits, use:

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String("000" + comic.identifier).slice(-4)


If you need another number of digits, use a list of zeros one less than the pad length and set the number in the slice part to be equal to the pad length.


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I am having another issue. The data engine is somehow figuring out what the next and previous comic page url should be based on some pattern, even though I am not explicitly defining it. The problem is that, for this particular comic, at a certain point the pattern the url follows changes. So when the data engine reaches that point it fails. So I need some way to get it to change the pattern it is using at that point (going in both directions). Any ideas? Basically the subdirectory the comic is stored in changes.


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TheBlackCat wrote:I am having another issue. The data engine is somehow figuring out what the next and previous comic page url should be based on some pattern, even though I am not explicitly defining it. The problem is that, for this particular comic, at a certain point the pattern the url follows changes. So when the data engine reaches that point it fails. So I need some way to get it to change the pattern it is using at that point (going in both directions). Any ideas? Basically the subdirectory the comic is stored in changes.


It only (in theory, maybe you found a bug) does that -- figuring out what prev and next are -- if you do not set these yourself.


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How do you set the full previous and next url (or the previous and next subdirectory)? I can only see how to set the previous and next identifier, which won't help me because it is not the file name pattern that changes but the subdirectoy the files are stored in.

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TheBlackCat wrote:How do you set the full previous and next url (or the previous and next subdirectory)? I can only see how to set the previous and next identifier, which won't help me because it is not the file name pattern that changes but the subdirectoy the files are stored in.


Ah, now I understand.

You can not set the url of the next/prev you can only set the identifier.

Clicking next will make the next-identifier to the current identifier. You have to handle what url should be used manually. This might not be ideal, but it worked so far. What comic has this problem?


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How do I handle what url should be used manually?

www.zebeth.com changes subdirectories between comic 999 and 1000.


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TheBlackCat wrote:How do I handle what url should be used manually?

www.zebeth.com changes subdirectories between comic 999 and 1000.


I did not examine zebeth that closely, but something like the following should do it.

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function init()
{
...
  if(comic.identifier < 1000) {
    comic.websiteUrl = "http://www.zebeth.com/planetzebeth/archives/z" + comic.identifier + ".html";
  else {
    comic.websiteUrl = "http://www.zebeth.com/planetzebeth/archive1k/z" + comic.identifier + ".html";
  }
  comic.requestPage(comic.websiteUrl, comic.Page);


I did that "code" out of my head, so there might be some errors inside.

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Thanks, that seems to work. I tried doing something like that, but I put it in pageRetrieved and it caused an endless loop.


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Another question. In some of the source code of the comics I am getting things like "&#8230;". I assume this is some sort of formatting or special character. Is there a way to handle these properly?


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TheBlackCat wrote:Another question. In some of the source code of the comics I am getting things like "…". I assume this is some sort of formatting or special character. Is there a way to handle these properly?


I'm not sure where that was used, but it appears to me like a proper use of an html entity that describes an UTF character in the source code.


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