[Feature Request]: Image preload range when using AI tools

[Hadilan18]

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Describe your suggested feature

For the upcoming AI models specifically for OpenComic, I'd like to suggest a slider in common settings or under AI tools configuration. This option lets GPU process the next few pages ahead while you're on the current page, so that you can keep reading without having to wait for the next page to be fully processed. Since running AI takes time, this will help users with mid to low end PCs improve reading experience by reducing wait time.

I think the slider ranging from 2 to 10 pages should suffice for now, but more AI tools being active means we may need to preload more pages.

[ollm]

Thanks for the suggestion!

Currently, the next 10 images and the previous 5 are already preloaded. Even so, I've added an option in the settings to configure the number of images to preload c04c7ab, and I've limited the number of previous images to preload to 4.

Nightly builds: ollm/OpenComic-Nightly

[Hadilan18]

Thank you for such lightning fast implementation! But it's weird that the default number of preload was hidden, and only displayed back on when I moved the slider.

When you finish training AI models, please consider the noise reduction slider to have more values than just 0 and 3.

This might not worth opening an issue, but I noticed that the drop-down header bar seemed to be placed below the invisible tab bar while turning on hide header bar and multiple tabs opened. It made the configuration menu truncated at the end of scrolling. This is not the case when tab bar doesn't activate.

[ollm]

Thank you for such lightning fast implementation! But it's weird that the default number of preload was hidden, and only displayed back on when I moved the slider.

I've fixed this 4d75bea

When you finish training AI models, please consider the noise reduction slider to have more values than just 0 and 3.

Noise reduction depends on the model, and most of them don't support it (Only RealCUGAN, Waifu2x CUnet, and Waifu2x UpConv do). The available values are the only ones supported by each model. For example, OpenComic AI models will not have noise reduction.

RealCUGAN: ollm/opencomic-ai-bin/index.mts#L156
Waifu2x CUnet: ollm/opencomic-ai-bin/index.mts#L240

This might not worth opening an issue, but I noticed that the drop-down header bar seemed to be placed below the invisible tab bar while turning on hide header bar and multiple tabs opened. It made the configuration menu truncated at the end of scrolling. This is not the case when tab bar doesn't activate.

Could you share a screenshot? I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean.

[Hadilan18]

Noise reduction depends on the model, and most of them don't support it (Only RealCUGAN, Waifu2x CUnet, and Waifu2x UpConv do). The available values are the only ones supported by each model. For example, OpenComic AI models will not have noise reduction.

Personally I see no real reason to keep that option when OpenComic AI models are probably superior.

Could you share a screenshot? I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean.

Hide header bar off

Hide header bar on

btw, I just realized there's some sort of gray border at the left, right, bottom edge and a small black line at the top edge when you enter fullscreen mode. The black line at top seems to persist with multiple tab mode.

[ollm]

Personally I see no real reason to keep that option when OpenComic AI models are probably superior.

I don't see why that option should be removed. It's simply disabled for models that don't support it.

Hide header bar off
Hide header bar on

I have fixed this issue ffcdfbe

btw, I just realized there's some sort of gray border at the left, right, bottom edge and a small black line at the top edge when you enter fullscreen mode. The black line at top seems to persist with multiple tab mode.

This is an electron related bug. I've updated to a fixed version 84523c1 (electron/electron#51332)

Nightly builds: ollm/OpenComic-Nightly

[Hadilan18]

I don't see why that option should be removed. It's simply disabled for models that don't support it.

My bad, leave it disabled by graying it out works well too. It's just that when OpenComic AI models that are set as default and recommended don't need noise reduction option, there's less reason for people to choose other models supporting that option. Why would people do that when the models you've worked on tirelessly are the most suitable?

I think OpenComic is already overwhelmed with options, even the header menu has no room left. IMHO, keeping it simple by removing unnecessary options should be the way to go.

Once again, thank you for the amazing app!

[Hadilan18]

Can you make it so that the config menu doesn't get cut off at the end? This only happens when the Hide header bar option is on, with or without fullscreen.

Also, when enabling Hide header bar, there is a very small gap between Tab Bar and Menu Bar.

I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but the hover area for the header bar is unclear. It is triggered in the top half of the menu bar, then it is not in the bottom half, and triggered again after leaving the menu bar area.

bugno1.zip

There's another annoying bug with Hide header bar and Tab bar:

1. Hover over any header menu button to display a tooltip, such as Zoom In or Sort.
2. Then slowly move the mouse up to the border of the tab bar, where the header bar suddenly closes and reappears if you move the mouse a little bit.

bugno2.zip

The interaction between tabs in the Tab bar is even wackier:

1. Middle click to open two random books and put them in reading mode.
2. Click on a book and hover a tab to display the book's filename.
3. Slowly move the cursor outside the tab border in any direction, this causes the header bar to suddenly close and reappear if you move the mouse a few pixels away.

bugno3.zip

All of this makes the option to hide the header bar unusable.

From what I've seen with multi-tab mode: The screen flickers slightly, leaving an after-image of the library folder when switching to a book in reading mode, and vice versa. This issue seems less severe with a short fade-to-black effect when switching among books in reading mode. Probably performance issue?

Edited:

I forgot to mention: If you click the rightmost tab (assuming it's a book in reading mode), the header bar flickers when hovering over any tab—whether it's favorite, library, or a book in preview mode. The header bar also flickers when the cursor moves outside the tab border after switching books in reading mode, even if the tooltip hasn't appeared yet. This is similar to what bugno3 video shows.

To sum up: Please keep the header bar visible when the mouse cursor is over that area, regardless of any actions, including switching tabs.

[ollm]

All these errors are due to the addition of the tab bar. When I can, I'll send a fix.