Storyline Support in Comicster 4
This weekend I’ve added support for storylines (or crossovers, as we used to call them in the previous version) to Comicster 4. Here’s a screenshot:
The idea is simple: Any issue can be part of a broader storyline that spans multiple titles. So when you bring up the properties of an issue, you can specify which storyline it belongs to:
You can easily add a new storyline by simply typing its name into that field – it’ll get created and show up in the list alongside all the others in your collection.
Just like in the previous version I’m deliberately limiting it to one storyline per issue. I don’t think that’ll be too severe a limitation – certainly it has never bothered me.
For those of you with lots of crossover events in your old .CMX file, you’ll find an updated CMX file plug-in on for download on the Bitbucket site.
Comments
# JohnP
17/05/2011 12:50 AM
So, when I converted the file intially, all the storyline, 2nd print info, volume info, and other details went >poof<?
# mabster
17/05/2011 6:58 AM
Hi John,
Sadly, storyline and printing info wouldn't have been imported. I still have to implement issue printing - thanks for the reminder.
Volume info should've come across though. Does your .cmxx file not have volume info?
# mabster
17/05/2011 7:22 AM
Now that I think about it, I can probably knock up some sort of tool to "merge" the storyline info from a .cmx file into your new .cmxx file. Let me know if the data is important enough to you for that sort of thing.