Happypanda v0.26 Alpha

This update will rebuild your database. Please let this process finish. Contact me if something goes wrong!

Restarting the application after rebuilding the database is required!

This update will reset some of your settings.

Changelog

• Startup is now slighty faster
• New redesigned gallery metadata window!
  • New chapter view in the metadata window
  • Artist field is now clickable to issue a search for galleries with same artist
• Some GUI changes
• New advanced gallery search (make sure to read the search guide found in Settings -> About -> Search Guide)
  • Case sensitive searching
  • Whole terms match searching
  • Terms excluding
  • New special namespaced tags (Read about them in Settings -> About -> Search Guide)
• New import/export database feature found in Settings -> About -> Database
• Added new column in Skipped paths window to show what reason caused a file to be skipped
• Gallery downloader
  • Added new batch urls window to gallery downloader
  • Gallery downloading from panda.chaika.moe is now using its new api
  • Added context menu's to download items
  • Added download progress on download items
  • Doubleclicking on finished download items will open its containing folder
• Added autocomplete on the artist field in gallery edit dialog
• Activated the last read attribute on galleries
• Improved hash generation
• Introducing metafiles:
  • Files containing gallery metadata in same folder/archive is now detected on import
  • Only supports eze's info.json files for now
• Settings
  • Moved alot of options around. Note: Some options will be reset
  • Reworded some options and fixed typos
  • Enabled the Database tab in About section with import/export database feature
• Updated the database to version 0.22
  • Database will now be backed up before upgrading
• Clicking on the tray icon ballon will now activate Happypanda
• Thumbnail regenerating
  • Added confirmation popup when about to regenerate thumbnails
  • Application restart is no longer required after regenerating thumbnails
  • Added confirmation popup asking about if the thumbnail cache should be cleaned before regenerating
• Renamed Random Gallery Opener to Open random gallery and also moved it to the Gallery menu on the toolbar
• Open random gallery will now only pick a random gallery in current view.
  • E.g. switching to the favorite view will make it pick a random gallery among the favorites
• Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed a bug causing archives downloaded from g.e/ex to fail when trying to add to library
  • Fixed a bug where fetching galleries from the database would sometimes throw an exception
  • Fixed a bug causing people running from source to never see the new update notification
  • Fixed some popup blur bug
  • Fixed an annoyance where the text cursor would always move to the end when searching
  • Fixed a bug where Show in Folder and Open folder/archive in gallery context menu was doing the same thing
  • Fixed a bug where tags fetched from chaika included underscores
  • Fixed bug where the notification widget would sometimes not show messages
  • Fixed bug where chapters added to gallery with directory source would not open correctly

How to install & run

Mac

See INSTALL.md

Linux

See INSTALL.md
An executable will be available for the final release

Windows

1. Download the installer for windows below
2. Create a folder and extract to desired location (avoid locations where you need admin rights)
3. Run the program by clicking on Happypanda.exe

Happypanda v0.25 Alpha

Fixed a bug that requires monitored and ignored paths to be reset.

Changelog

• Added Show in folder entry in gallery contextmenu
• Gallery popups
  • A contextmenu will now be shown when you rightclick a gallery
  • Added Skip button in the metadata gallery chooser popup (the one asking you which gallery you want to extract metadata from)
  • The text in metadata gallery chooser popups will now wrap
  • Added tooltips displaying title and artist when hovering galleries in some popups
• Settings
  • A new button allowing you to recreate your thumbnail cache is now in Settings -> Advanced -> Gallery
  • Added new tab Downloader in Web section
  • Renamed General tab in Web section to Metadata
  • Some options in settings will now show a tooltip explaining the option on hover
• You can now go back to previous or to next search terms with the two new buttons beside the search bar (hidden until you actually search something)
  • Back and Forward keys has been bound to these two buttons (very OS dependent but something like ALT + LEFT ARROW etc.) Back and Forward buttons on your mouse should also probably work (shrugs)
  • Added Use current gallery link checkbox option in Web section
• Toolbar
  • Renamed Misc to Tools
  • New Scan for new galleries entry in Gallery
  • New Gallery Downloader entry in Tools
• Gallery downloading
  • Supports archive and torrent downloading
  • archives will be automatically imported while torrents will be sent to your torrent client
  • Currently supports ex/g.e gallery urls and panda.chaika.moe gallery/archive urls
    • Note: downloading archives from ex/g.e will be handled the same way as if you did it in your browser, i.e. it will cost you GP/credits.
• Tray icon
  • You can now manually check for a new update by right clicking on the tray icon
  • Triggering the tray icon, i.e. clicking on it, will now activate (showing it) the Happypanda window
• Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed a bug where skipped galleries/paths would get moved
  • Fixed a bug where gallery archives/folders containing images with .jpeg and/or capitalized (.JPG, etc.) extensions were treated as invalid gallery sources, or causing the program to behave very weird if they managed to get imported somehow
  • Fixed a bug where you couldn't search with the Regex option turned on
  • Fixed a bug where changing gallery covers would fail if the previous cover was not deleted or found.
  • Fixed a bug where non-existent monitored folders were not detected
  • Fixed a bug occurring in the user settings (settings.ini) parsing, hence the reset
  • Fixed other minor misc. bugs

How to install & run

Mac

See INSTALL.md

Linux

See INSTALL.md
An executable will be available for the final release

Windows

1. Download the installer for windows below
2. Create a folder and extract to desired location (avoid locations where you need admin rights)
3. Run the program by clicking on Happypanda.exe

Happypanda v0.24.1 Alpha

Changelog

• Fixed bugs:
  • Removing a gallery and its files should now work
  • Popups were staying on top of all windows

How to install & run

Mac

See INSTALL.md

Linux

See INSTALL.md
An executable will be available for the final release

Windows

1. Download the installer for windows below
2. Create a folder and extract to desired location (avoid locations where you need admin rights)
3. Run the program by clicking on Happypanda.exe

Happypanda v0.24 Alpha

Changelog

• Mostly gui fixes/improvements
  • Changed toolbar style and icons
  • Added new native spinners
  • Added spinner for the metadata fetching process
  • Added spinner for initial load
  • Added spinner for DB activity
  • Removed sort contextmenu and added it to the toolbar
  • Removed some space around galleries in grid view
  • Added kinetic scrolling when scrolling with middlemouse button
• New DB Overview window and tab in settings dialog
  • you can now see all namespaces and tags in the Namespace and Tags tab
• Pressing the return-key will now open selected galleries
• New options in settings dialog
  • Make extracting archives before opening optional in Application -> General
  • Open chapters sequentially or all at once in Application -> General
• Added a confirmation when closing while there is still DB activity to avoid data loss
• Added log file rotation
  • When happypanda.log reaches 10 mb a new file will be made (rotating between 3 files)
• Fixed bugs:
  • Temporarily fixed a critical bug where galleries wouldn't load
  • Fixed a bug where the tray icon would stay even after closing the application
  • Fixed a bug where clicking on a tag with no namespace in the Gallery Metdata Popup would search the tag with a blank namespace
  • Fixed a minor bug where when opening the settings dialog a small window would appear first in a split second

How to install & run

Mac

See INSTALL.md

Linux

See INSTALL.md
An executable will be available for the final release

Windows

1. Download the installer for windows below
2. Create a folder and extract to desired location (avoid locations where you need admin rights)
3. Run the program by clicking on Happypanda.exe

Happypanda v0.23 Alpha

Changelog

• Stability and perfomance increase for very large libraries
  • Instant startup: galleries are now lazily loaded in batches
  • Application now supports very large libraries (tested with 10k galleries)
  • Gallery searching will now scale with amount of galleries (means, no freezes when searching)
  • Same with adding new galleries.
• The gallery window appearing when you click on a gallery is now interactable
  • Clicking on a link will open it in your default browser
  • Clicking on a tag will search for the tag
• Added some animation and a spinner
• Fixed bugs:
  • Fixed critical bug where selected galleries were not being mapped properly. (Which sometimes resulted in wrong galleries being removed)
  • Fixed a bug where pressing CTRL + A to select all galleries would tell that i has selected the total amount of galleries multipled by 3
  • Fixed a bug where the notificationbar would sometiems not hide itself
  • & other minor bugs

How to install & run

Mac

See INSTALL.md

Linux

See INSTALL.md
An executable will be available for the final release

Windows

1. Download the installer for windows below
2. Create a folder and extract to desired location (avoid locations where you need admin rights)
3. Run the program by clicking on Happypanda.exe

Happypanda v0.22 Alpha

Changelog

• Added support for .rar files.
  • Specify the path to unrar in Settings -> Application -> General to enable rar support. Follow the instructions for your OS.
• Fixed most (if not all) gallery importing issues
• Added a way to populate from archive.
  • Note: Subfolders will always be treated as galleries when populating from an archive.
• Fixed a bug where users who tried Happypanda for the first time would see the 'rebuilding galleries' popup.
• & other misc. changes

How to install & run

Mac

See INSTALL.md

Linux

See INSTALL.md
An executable will be available for the final release

Windows

1. Download the installer for windows below
2. Create a folder and extract to desired location (avoid locations where you need admin rights)
3. Run the program by clicking on Happypanda.exe

Happypanda v0.21b Alpha

Changelog

Fixed bug: Corrupted archive files were not being ignored

Happypanda v0.21 Alpha

Changelog

• The application will now ask if you want to view skipped paths after searching for galleries
• Added 'delete successful' in the notificationbar
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed critical bug: Could not open chapters/galleries
    • If your gallery still won't open then please try re-adding the gallery.
  • Fixed bug: Covers for archives with no folder in-between were not being found
  • & other minor bugs

How to install & run

Mac

See INSTALL.md

Linux

See INSTALL.md
An executable will be available for the final release

Windows

1. Download the installer for windows below
2. Create a folder and extract to desired location (avoid locations where you need admin rights)
3. Run the program by clicking on Happypanda.exe

Happypanda v0.20 Alpha

This version has changed how archives are treated so i recommend re-adding all your archives (by deleting them from Happypanda first). To distinguish between archives and directories among your galleries do this: Open settings -> Visual and check 'File Type' at 'Display on gallery'. Re-adding your archives will ensure that no weird issues arises

Changelog

• Added support for recursive importing of galleries (applies to archives too)
  • Directories in archives will now be noticed when importing
  • Directories with archives as chapters will now be properly imported
• Added drag and drop feature for directories and archives
• Galleries that was unsuccesful during metadata fetching will now be displayed in a popup
• Added support for directory or archive ignoring
• Added support for changing gallery covers
• Added new feature: move imported galleries to a specified folder
• Increased speed of Populate from folder and Add galleries...
• Improved filename parser to now remove unneecessary whitespaces
• Improved gallery hashing to avoid unnecessary hashing
• Added 'Add archive' button in chapter dialog
• Popups will now be centered on parent window correctly
  • It is now possible to move popups by leftclicking and dragging
  • Added background blur effect when popups are shown
• The rebuild galleries popup will now show real progress
• Settings:
  • Added new option: Treat subfolders as galleries
  • Added new option: Move imported galleries
  • Added new option: Scroll to new galleries (disabled)
  • Added new option: Open random gallery chapters
  • Added new option: Rename gallery source (disabled)
  • Added new tab in Advanced section: Gallery
  • Added new options: Gallery renamer (disabled)
  • Added new tab in Application section: Ignore
  • Enabled General tab in Application section
  • Reenabled Display on gallery options
• Contextmenu:
  • When selecting more galleries only options that apply to selected galleries will be shown
  • It is now possible to favourite/Unfavourite selected galleries
  • Reenabled removing of selected galleries
  • Added: Advanced and Change cover
• Updated database to version 0.2
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed critical bug: not being able to add chapters
  • Fixed bug: removing a chapter would always remove the first chapter
  • Fixed bug: fetched metadata title and artist would not be formatted correctly
  • & other minor bugs

How to install & run

Mac

See INSTALL.md

Linux

See INSTALL.md
An executable will be available for the final release

Windows

1. Download the installer for windows below
2. Create a folder and extract to desired location (avoid locations where you need admin rights)
3. Run the program by clicking on Happypanda.exe

Happypanda v0.19 Alpha

I highly recommend deleting your current db folder and starting over.

Changelog

• Improved stability
• Updated and fixed auto metadata fetcher:
  • Now twice as fast
  • No more need to restart application because it froze
  • Updated to support namespace fetching directly from the official API
• Improved tag autocompletion in gallery dialog
• Added a system tray icon to notify you about events such as auto metadata fetcher being done
• Sorting:
  • Added a new sort option: Publication Date
  • Added an indicator to the current sort option.
  • Your current sort option will now be saved
  • Increased pecision of date added
• Settings:
  • Added new options:
    • Continue auto metadata fetcher from where it left off
    • Use japanese title
  • Enabled option:
    • Auto add new galleries on startup
  • Removed options:
    • HTML Parsing or API
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed critical bug: Fetching metadata from exhentai not working
  • Fixed critical bug: Duplicates were being created in database
  • Fixed a bug causing the update checker to always fail.

How to install & run

Mac

See INSTALL.md
I don't have a Mac so I can't make an executable. If you have a Mac then please help me make an executable. Find me in the Gitter chat.

Linux

See INSTALL.md
An executable will be available for the final release

Windows

1. Download the installer for windows below
2. Create a folder and extract to desired location (avoid locations where you need admin rights)
3. Run the program by clicking on Happypanda.exe