Possibility of preventing the current issue cover from being displayed

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Now that remote sharing is working properly on Comicrack, an issue has
crept up where CVS could be improved. 

When we scrap a large number of issues, each time the script moves to the
next, the cover image is pulled from Comicrack and displayed (in the window
showing the current item being scraped). If the comic is local, its not a
problem. If the comic is remote, it has to pull quite a fair amount of data
over a (potentially slow) network before displaying the next one, and this
slows down the script alot (by alot, i mean noticeably slower).

Is there any way to prevent displaying the cover image, or just changing it
when you switch to a different series, for example, instead of switching on
each issue?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by joaomigu...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2010 at 2:01

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There's currently no way to shut off the image display, no.

I'm actually kind of surprised that scraping works at all over a remote 
connection. 
I've never tried to run the remote server, but I wouldn't expected it to work 
unless
you are actually allowed to edit your comic books remotely...?

However, since you're bringing this idea up, I assume you've tried scraping 
comics
remotely, and (aside from it being quite slow), everything else seems to be 
working?
 I.e. actual changes are being written out to your comic book files?

Original comment by cban...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2010 at 3:47

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Everything works fine - and yes, you need to be allowed to edit the books. 
Other than
being slow when loading each book's cover, everything else works perfectly. 
I've done
literally thousands of scrapes now, without any problem related to CVS.

This was the main driving force behind my constant nagging for a "working" 
share at
comicrack forums - to be allowed to do the scrapes while at work. 

Couldn't we get a checkbox somewhere on the main form that, if turned off, 
prevented
the call to load of the image?

Original comment by joaomigu...@gmail.com on 7 Apr 2010 at 4:38

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I think I should be able to make it so that the scraper automatically 
recognizes when
a scraped comic is being accessed remotely, and does not load the image in 
those cases.

Original comment by cban...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2010 at 4:22

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I think it should be a bit more granular than that. Sometimes, even for remote 
books,
its useful to see the image, just not for all cases when you're acting upon 
more than
a handful of books.

Original comment by joaomigu...@gmail.com on 8 Apr 2010 at 8:18

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Original comment by cban...@gmail.com on 24 Jan 2012 at 6:30

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