This updater will automatically find your old version of ComicBase 4.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, or 4.0.3, and update it to ComicBase 4.0.4. Please note that the search for old versions may take several minutes.

If you're running ComicBase 4.0.2 or earlier, use the ComicBase Reports Updater (available on the Human Computing web site) to update the price list report to the most current version.

• You can now choose to tell ComicBase never to give you the "Insert ComicBase Disk" warning (useful for those folks who typically don’t run ComicBase with the CD inserted. Unless you run ComicBase with the CD-ROM in the drive (or copy the Pictures folder to your hard disk), you won’t see pictures or movies when you run ComicBase.

• The New and Remove buttons are no longer squished into a tiny box in the Comic Types Setup dialog.

• In importing data from ComicBase 3, multiple copies of the same issue were sometimes not brought over to ComicBase 4.0

• Title descriptions in ComicBase 4 are replaced with ones from older versions of ComicBase only if the one being carried from ComicBase 3 was not blank.

• In the Prices and Modify Issues screens, the list of issues would sometimes get out of sync after modifying issues.

• Typing a quotation mark in the registration screen would automatically move you to the next field.

• Issues for Deadpool (the regular series) and Deadpool (Ltd. Series) were lumped together when converting from ComicBase 3.

• Clicking the Cancel box or the Exit button from the registration screen would give an error.
• Nightwing (the regular series) was missing its data.

• Long title names would not display completely in the main title window.

• Movies with long names did not appear under their respective titles.

• Very long issue names or issue notes could cause a problem when rebuilding the Find Comics lists.

• Mass Change for the Price Year 1-4 fields wouldn't work.

• Trying to print an issue checklist after printing a title report would give an error.

• Removing unwanted grades didn’t work properly.

It also adds one small new feature to ComicBase: the ability to register it online using our ComicBase Registration Page. To do this, use the "Register ComicBase Online" command under the Help menu.

• In the section on scanning your own pictures for ComicBase, we mistakenly omitted one portion of the path. The full folder hierarchy inside your ComicBase folder should be:

1. "Pictures"
2. The first letter of the publisher name (e.g. "M" for Marvel)
3. The publisher name (e.g. "Marvel")
4. If the publisher is Marvel or DC, add next the first letter of the title name (since these publishers have published too many titles to fit into a single level of directory). E.g. "X" for "X-Men (1^st Series)
5. If desired, make a folder named the same as the title—otherwise, just put the picture file here named after the title. If you choose a folder, the scans for the individual issues go inside

• If ComicBase is having trouble opening its database, complaining of an ActiveX component not being able to create an object, it’s probably a sign that your database DLLs are out of date. This can be prevented by making sure that you’ve quit all other programs before installing ComicBase. If you’re having this problem, quit all other programs, uninstall ComicBase (answer Yes to All if asked to remove shared DLLs that are no longer in use), then reinstall ComicBase from the CD-ROM.

• HP DeskJet printers tend to chop off the bottom half of footers (with the page # and date printed) in the various reports. Users who find this a major inconvenience are advised to contact Hewlett Packard to see if a fix is available. When printing labels, DeskWriter printers also have a rather high minimum bottom margin which can interfere with printing the bottom row of a sheet of labels. Users can trick their DeskWriter into printing the bottom row correctly by setting their paper size to "Legal" before printing.