Woofy

Hello Vlad. I like what you have done with the DSL / Definition files.

I gave up on my application that downloaded comic strips and I plan to contribute to this project more.

With that being said, here are the list of definition files I am going to work on:
Abstruse Goose
Arlo & Janis
Calvin and Hobbes
Commissioned
Ctrl Alt Del (and Sillies)
Dilbert
Dork Tower
Dueling Analogs
Dungeons and Dragons Dorks
Extra Life
FoxTrot
Garfield
Goblins
Heroes Inc
Little Gamers
Looking for Group
Massive Pwnage
Nerf This
Oh My Gods
Ok Cancel
Order of the Stick
Penny Arcade
Phd Comics
PvP Online
Questionable Content
Real Life Comics
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Something Positive (just the first posting per page)
The Noob Comic
User Friendly
VG Cats
XKCD

With this being said I have two questions.

1) Is there any good way to debug what happens when it blows up? Currently it just crashes and boom (which is expected of a beta app, just curious if there is a way for me to give you more details)

2) What are all of the possible variables available inside the definition file? Also, it seems that download(…) can return an object, what variables are available on that object?

My final statement: Why can't gocomics play nicely? Is there any easy way to build a definition for a comic on gocomics?

Hi Justin, glad you like the infrastructure - I've tried hard to make it extensible and easy to use.

Regarding the debugging, I'm afraid I can't help you much with that - you'll have to run Woofy via Visual Studio and see where and why it crashes.
The possible variables aren't many, you can see them working in the xkcd definition. For a very brief explanation of how this works see this post.

As for the gocomics definition - what issues have you encountered?

Regards,
Vlad

Thank you for the post, I completely forgot that the source code was on code.google.com.

That helped A LOT while debugging the defintion files.

Nothing is wrong with gocomics.com, I figured out what I was doing wrong.