Harish's World - neither here nor there...

Having been a developer for two years, I was introduced to various tools and technologies involving Java. The application that caught my attention was Eclipse. It wouldn't be right to call Eclipse just an application, It is a Platform. I began working using Eclipse considering it a mere Java IDE, but now my whole notion of Eclipse is completely different. The more I worked on it, the more it fascinated me.

It has become more like a one stop shop. Take any Language, or technology, and you will find either a developed Eclipse plug-in for it, or some one will be in the process of developing one. I have myself been involved in developing a couple of plug-ins for Eclipse when I was working. One thing that struck me was recreational plug-ins (if I can call it so) were very few (almost negligible). And being a big comic fan, I got this idea of writing a Comic Viewer plug-in.

There are many comic book readers available, but I didn't find a decent one (my searching skills are bad) for Linux. I have this habit of switching between Windows and Linux frequently, and having a little knowledge about the power of Eclipse, I thought a plug-in for a comic book reader would be ideal for this.

This is just the initial version of the plug-in. The features of the plug-in include

• Support for .cbz files (zip files renamed to cbz) and ./zip files
• Navigation through the keyboard
• Developed on Eclipse 3.2
• Can be used for both Windows and Linux (was tested on Ubuntu 6.06)
• Requires GEF which can be found here

I plan to add more features in the near future which include

• Support for .cbr files
• Navigation through mouse

In the mean time if you find any issues or bugs, feel free to report them here. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.