Who likes manga?

Version 0.57 is available. I have added “Suggestions” which pulls information from the “weekly ranking”. Rather than the all-time popular manga (as before), the use of the weekly ranking ought to have titles change as trends change (though I don’t think One Piece is ever going away – what is it now, over 1000 chapters?).

I was going to look at doing search, but my tablet failed last night and I’ve spent the morning setting everything up again.

Failed? I downloaded four episodes of “Into The Badlands”. Watched two, and then the thing froze up. I power cycled, after waiting ages for the system UI to respond. Upon reboot, it asked me to enter my password.
Problem. I didn’t set up a password.
It was also speaking to me in French.

So somewhere along the way, it screwed itself up badly. Android’s equivalent of registry corruption? It’s pretty crap that if you can’t guess a password you never set up, then the only option is to wipe the device and begin again. Setting up apps and preferences is a pain. I’ve set this device to back itself up to Google because, well, it’s only been about a month so I kind of expect this to happen again… a backup might make reinstallation quicker/less annoying.

Maybe all that wuxia action was just too much for the poor thing to cope with? ;-)

I’ve set this device to back itself up to Google because, well, it’s only been about a month so I kind of expect this to happen again… a backup might make reinstallation quicker/less annoying.

Unless the backup is “accidentally” corrupted by “the deep state” and “big tech” conspiring against you. :)
Sorry, my tin-foil hat slipped…

Version 0.57 is available

Hi Rick, where is 0.57 as the website still has 0.56 and it doesn’t give me an update option when 0.56 is run.

By the way think I found a bug in 0.56 as I thought I would download 0.56 just in case it was an issue with my version or you had canaged to 0.57 but not changed the download details.

Anyway with Manga on the iconbar go to menu and Info and immediately it errors with

Unrecoverable error in run time system. Not enough memory, Malloc failed, (Heap over written)

Take care and thanks for all your efforts.

as the website still has 0.56

You’re right, I forgot to update the HTML.

The pattern is predictable, so… http://heyrick.ddns.net/manga/manga_0-57.zip

and it doesn’t give me an update option when 0.56 is run.

It should, the update file is correct. More likely bad reception means the message isn’t getting through in time. It times out quickly so as not to introduce too much of a delay at startup.

on the iconbar go to menu and Info and immediately it errors with

Doesn’t here ;-) but I do suspect this might be a buffer overrun due to how much stuff is being written into the info string at the bottom of the window now. I’ll have to jiggle that all to make it better so all those Manga fit the icon.
Thanks for letting me know.
[thinks… didn’t I change that to use snprintf? it shouldn’t be overrunning…?]

Sorry, my tin-foil hat slipped…

You’d have thought the Big Deep Tech State would have wanted me to pay my €7.99 a month and sit watching stuff like a drooling zombie. You can’t be subversive or seditious if you’re more interested in Tilda getting her ass handed to her.
They ought to be discreetly advertising nappies (so no need to get up at all when consuming endless amounts of pretty visuals) rather than breaking the thing.
Jeez, E-, must try harder…

Hi Rick,

it should, the update file is correct. More likely bad reception means the message isn’t getting through in time

OK tried again with 0.56 and holding down the shift key and up pops the download box that says:

This is version 0.56
Version 0.56 is available
Now implements Suggestions (What’s popular).

Downloaded and it installed and Versions file says 0.57 but can’t check via the info box as it still error’s.

Take care.

Versions file says 0.57 but can’t check via the info box as it still error’s.

OK so today the Menu>Info option works!

I have not chnaged anything on the system and yesterday I did countless reboots, restarts with nothing loaded at boot up, cleared Manga Cache and also all data/choices etc but everytime it errored but not today.

Scratch head and wait for it to happen again if it ever does :-)

I have not chnaged anything on the system and yesterday I did countless reboots, restarts with nothing loaded at boot up, cleared Manga Cache and also all data/choices etc but everytime it errored but not today.

Have you annoyed any of your local ghosts?

Happy Valentines to all you manga fans!

Version 0.58 is available. The auto-gizmo won’t detect it (reason below) but if you’re using v0.56 or later you can force getting this file by starting Manga and holding down Shift until the update notification appears.

Or… get it from Store. ;-)

Here’s what’s new:

• Latest manga list now fetches a second page for more results (in testing today, that takes us back eight hours – this is a popular site!).

• Search now implemented. As before, you can add (green) or remove (red) genres, and search by partial title name, or leave it blank to see matching manga in the selected genres.
  It also fetches a second page of results in order to give a better choice.

• The following search categories have been removed: Demons, Magic, Military, Superpower, and Vampire.
  The following search categories have been added in their place: Adult, Dôjinshi, Lolicon, Shotacon, and Webtoons.
  (don’t ask how “adult” differs from “mature”)

• Why no JSON nonsense? Well, I started up Firefox 47 on my XP box in order to snoop on what was being sent to the server (developer tools → network) and the site sent a simpler setup for the older browser, pages instead of one auto-updating page. Useful for us!

• Made Info window bigger. There was no risk of a buffer overrun writing all that stuff into the status icon. There was plenty of space for the data, just not enough to actually show it. ;-)

• Expanded manga selection window to full size now that many manga have thumbnails. The thumbnails are scaled to fit the window, which means they’re scaled 2:1.

• Bugfix: Clearing the search form now clears the “Ongoing” and “Completed” icons, if they were selected.
  [is this a Wimp bug? it’s a radio icon, ESG1, shouldn’t selecting one icon (SetIconState) automatically deselect the others?]

• Revised the interactive help messages.

• Manga information parser now handles manga descriptions split across multiple lines (this was why some were oddly terminated/cut short).

• Fixed auto-update notification reporting the wrong versions. Due to FP inaccuracies, when we’re looking at versions 0.57 or 0.59, the old code does NOT work:
  ourvers = (int) ( atof(appvers) * 100.0 );
  This does:
  ourvers = (int) ( atof(appvers) * 100.1 );
  <sigh>
  I knew there was a reason why I hate maths.

Have fun!

!Manga v0.58 from store crashes

When loading “Noragami” and trying to read (“GO”), !Manga crashes with the following Error:
Details:
“Unrecoverable error in runtime system”
“Not enough memory MALOC failed”

What I`m doing wrong?

What I`m doing wrong?

You aren’t doing anything wrong. That’s supposed to work. It works for me.

Let’s try something – pop over to my private site and pick up a copy of a known working version of the AcornHTTP module. http://heyrick.ddns.net/manga/ It’s the stuff in the big red box at the top.
This might be the problem, because some versions are broken.

Keep a copy of your existing AcornHTTP module. If the replacement fixes this, please send me the one you were using so I can add it to the “known broken” list.

Let me know how you get on.

…

Ooh, Noragami. I liked the animé. And I noticed a Korean drama on Netflix (Devil Punisher, I think) that I only watched a few minutes of before thinking it took more than a few ideas from Noragami. Tossing around cards with writing on them? Pretty girl sidekick turns into a sword (and back again)? It doesn’t seem the sort of series to include a schoolgirl with a tail ¹, mind you.

¹ Makes sense in context.

I tried now, what causes the crash:
As long s there is no bookmark, it works ok.
But as soon there is a bookmark, after a newstart (power off) Manga crashes, when trying to go back to the last read page.

when trying to go back to the last read page.

Hmm, bookmarks ought to be per session.

Thanks, that’s great. Next time I’m at the Pi I’ll fiddle around with bookmarks, see if I can reproduce it, and what I cocked up. ;-)

see if I can reproduce it, and what I cocked up. ;-)

Oh, this was really weird.

It was crashy for me. Adding in some debug code, it was crashing in places that just didn’t make any sense.

So I removed the debug code. Observed it crashing, like all the time. Binary was the same size as the one in the v0.58 archive.

Rebooted. Wiped all of the object files, rebuilt. Binary was a different size. It has recreated the main index and read a few pages of Noragami.

No idea what was going on, it seems as if some memory someplace got corrupted which was affecting the compiler/linker/taskwindow/something.
I don’t know.

Can you please try v0.59 (my site, updater, Store…) and tell me if this works for you too?

HI Rick,

Saw this and tried 0.59 with Noragami and it gave an error, sorry forgot to record what it was..100 lines “I must …”.

So cleared the history/cache and restarted Manga and re downloaded Noragami and this time it seems OK.

I have noticed on occasions Manga error when I have scaling on, 1920 × 1080 screen, so tend to use it in unscaled mode.

I tryed it bit more.
And found: After emptying the whole cache (by hand) it works without problem, until i do a reset and load !Manga again. Then the error comes, until i delete the cache again.
My Risc Os version is Risc OS Direct for Pi400/Pi4
Same problem on a Pi4 and a Pi 400.
I did not try yet on a Pi-3 or Pi-2

I tried now the 0.59 version. Same as before. But easy solution: empty the cache directory of Manga before starting.

How strange. My cache is like half a gigabyte…

Is this something new? Does 0.56/0.57 behave?

I found out, which file i have to delete in cache: mh_08-B40F (in case of noragami).

before trying Manga version 0.58 I used Manga version 0.41

Sorry i can not tell about the versions between

I found out, which file i have to delete in cache: mh_08-B40F (in case of noragami).

That’s the main information file for the manga, from which the manga data (title, author, chapter count, blah blah) is extracted.
It is refetched if it is more than 12 hours old.

I’ve just spent an hour wiping and refetching Noragami, and I’m just not getting anything messing up. There may well be a problem quietly lurking, but it wasn’t enough of a problem to crash the program or cause any observable misbehaviour.

I do plan, at some stage, to write a set of functions like LEFT$, INSTR, etc and use those in the parser instead of endless mucking around with pointers into the string (of data read in from the downloaded file). Some rainy weekend, perhaps?

I did not try yet on a Pi-3 or Pi-2

Have you at all? I wonder if this is something specific to the Pi 4x? (I’m using an ARMv7 Pi2).

Tried also on a Pi2B.

Exactly the same problem ( Risc Os 2.8)

It crashes until i delete all Mhxxx. Files and the folders with the same name. Deleting only one file does not help.

But MHxxx.jpg file can stay, also the mhindex- file.
All other mh_xxxx files i have to delete also all folders with the same numbers. ( in the ScrapDir)

I can not understand why, Manga downloads exactly the same files after a newstart again, and works…

I tryed it bit more.
And found: After emptying the whole cache (by hand) it works without problem, until i do a reset and load !Manga again. Then the error comes, until i delete the cache again.

Yep, noticed this now and have to do the same thing, delete history and cache and reboot for it to work, Manga 0.59.

Also it aborts on data transfer when trying to look at the history to start reading something you have in the history cache.

Manga 0.59.

Is this behaviour new?

The history aborts were there in older versions as I think I mentioned here.

The other issue I did see occasionally in other versions since the change to the new library location/service but it seems to have gotten worse mentioning malloc/not enough memory issues etc.

Is this still being maintained / served?

I tried to use !Manga and just get hit with a 403 error. So I guess I don’t have permission for some reason?

Is this still being maintained

Not really-ish.

A while back they started doing something strange which broke Manga – including the use of phantom images that would cause things to return an error.
This, following on from earlier work to auto-discard cookies in order to not be rejected as a bot.
I wasn’t able to get down to the underlying cause. Fetches with Firefox worked, the same URL on my phone didn’t, and RISC OS likewise.

Seems like an awful lot of work protecting what is essentially stolen content…scanlations are dubious at best (the usual excuse is “no sales are lost because it isn’t available”) and as far as I’m aware the site just collects the work of others rather than providing their own translations.

<sigh>