rex_virtutis
December 17th, 2010, 06:44 AM
I am using Kubuntu 10.04 and I have installed the Plasma Comic Viewer widget which downloads comic strips from various websites and displays them. The widget's settings dialog has an option select which comic strips I would like to follow from a list. An online comic strip I read is not included in said list so as a challenge, I decided to add support for the strip.
In ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma/comics/ I found a file and a directory for each comic I had installed through the settings dialog (eg. 92042-dilbert.comic and dilbert/). Each of these directories has a structure like this:
dilbert/
├── contents
│** └── code
│** └── main.es
├── icon.png
└── metadata.desktop
the main.es file uses a javascript like language and has code to locate the webpage, image file, previous strip, next strip and some other data. I have already recreated this directory structure for a new comic strip and have written the main.es script.
There are 2 things, however that I have not figured out and cannot find:
1) how does the widget find out which comic strips it is supposed to display
2) possibly related to 1, what are the .comic files and how can I generate one.
From a hex dump of the .comic files I have found that they are binary files that embed a png image near the beginning. I do not think they are Qt Resource files as I had first suspected but I haven't been able to determine much more than that.
The source code for the widget isn't very helpful to me since I am not very familiar with the KDE APIs and I can't find any place where it reads from a file.
Thanks in advance for any help or insight you can provide.
In ~/.kde/share/apps/plasma/comics/ I found a file and a directory for each comic I had installed through the settings dialog (eg. 92042-dilbert.comic and dilbert/). Each of these directories has a structure like this:
dilbert/
├── contents
│** └── code
│** └── main.es
├── icon.png
└── metadata.desktop
the main.es file uses a javascript like language and has code to locate the webpage, image file, previous strip, next strip and some other data. I have already recreated this directory structure for a new comic strip and have written the main.es script.
There are 2 things, however that I have not figured out and cannot find:
1) how does the widget find out which comic strips it is supposed to display
2) possibly related to 1, what are the .comic files and how can I generate one.
From a hex dump of the .comic files I have found that they are binary files that embed a png image near the beginning. I do not think they are Qt Resource files as I had first suspected but I haven't been able to determine much more than that.
The source code for the widget isn't very helpful to me since I am not very familiar with the KDE APIs and I can't find any place where it reads from a file.
Thanks in advance for any help or insight you can provide.