By default, Gesture 1 is assigned to Previous Page action, Gesture 3 for Next page, Gesture 7 for
Previ-ous part and Gesture 9 for Next part.
Multi-touch Gestures for ComicRack™
Slide Pinch in or out Tap Touch and hold Two-finger tap Drag Touch Press &
Tap and lightly on the screen. Using this your finger to the screen and leave it there until the context menu is
Watch all the ComicRack™ touch gestures in action on YouTube !
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Libraries
The Libraries tab contains a number of self‐explanatory options for customizing your ComicRack™ library. There are 4 sections in the Libraries tab:
1. Book folders 2. Scanning 3. Sharing
4. Server Settings
The Book Folders section helps in add-ing folders containadd-ing comic books to the library. These folders, if checked, would be watched for changes (move / rename) while the program is running.
Using the open button, any added folder can be opened with windows explorer.
The Sharing section is used for sharing of libraries over the internet. Select Add Share to open the library sharing config.
Here you can also select if you want to share your complete library or only se-lected lists. You can also select to make your library editable or password pro-tected (recommended). Please read the chapter on Network sharing for further details.
The Scanning section has 2 important options. The first option, if enabled, removes missing files from the library during the scanning process. The second option comes in handy when you decide not to add a file to the library, while that file resides within a comic book folder that is already added to the library.
In the Server settings section, you have the option to input the external IP of your server, and to password protect your private share lists.
More on library sharing in the coming
chapters!
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Behavior
The Behavior tab contains a number of self‐explanatory options for customizing the ComicRack™ experience to your liking. There are 7 sections in the Behavior tab:1. Starting ComicRack™
2. Opening an comic book 3. Reading
4. Right to left 5. Browser 6. Application 7. Import & export
The Starting ComicRack™ section con-tains startup tasks for ComicRack™, like scanning for comic book folders and up-dating web comics. We recommend that you mark all these options to run auto-matically at startup. You can also check for all the ComicRack™ news and keep informed about new releases.
With the Blend animation while fast paging option unchecked, when you keep the page down shortcut pushed, it disables any page transition effect. If it is checked, animation effect is always turned on, no matter how fast you try to switch through pages.
Keep the Fullscreen also toggles mini-mal user interface option selected if you don’t want any menu or toolbar in fulls-creen view.
You can uncheck the reset zoom option if you wish to read all pages in a particu-lar zoomed mode.
A couple of tweaks for the Browser. If you wish to display the browser dock-ing grip while usdock-ing the reader, you can check the option here. You can also opt for comic book tooltips while hovering your mouse over them in the browser.
Also present are options for thumbnail animations. The last option lets you display comic book ratings numerically.
Unchecking this option will display the ratings as stars over the thumbnails
While exporting reading lists, you may keep this option unckecked (recom-mended) to omit file names from being included in the list. Unchecking this op-tion provides better results during list imports.
Here you get the options for opening new comic books in separate tabs. You can opt to close the browser automati-cally whenever a comic book is opened.
You can make ComicRack™ always open a new comic book in a new tab from the option here. You can also choose to open the comic book at the page where it was last closed.
Right-to-left mode is used while reading manga.
Left/right movement is also reversed ‐ if book is marked as Manga (right to left), or if your page layout is ‘Right to Left’
then page loads in upper right corner and goes to lower left.
True right to left reading - The whole book is mirrored and not only double pages reversed. So you’re really reading the book from back to front.
The comic info dialog can display either simple or 3D covers, which can be tog-gled by either clicking on them, or using the option here. You also have the op-tion to hide the main menu (also see Tools menu, and use the Alt key). If you wish to have the catalog field for all comic books, you can uncheck the option here that limits the catalog field to fileless comics. Also, you can select to not showing the quick open box.
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Scripts
Scripts are essentially plugins or add‐ons that extend the functionality of ComicRack™. They can be found in the Index of Scripts section of the ComicRack™ forum. They are usually distributed as a zip file. Working with scripts is explained in detail later in the Scripts chapter.
Available Scripts is the second section. In its default state, it contains a list of all the scripts that come bundled with ComicRack™. As new scripts are installed, they show up in the avail-able scripts section. It can be used to disavail-able a script without uninstalling it. To disable any of these scripts, just un‐check the checkmark next to the script name here, and restart Comi-cRack™. Reverse the steps for reactivation.
The Script Settings section in the end contains an op-tion for disabling all scripts with a single-click.