Changed upscale algorithm to bicubic + little code cleanup

kcc.py

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ except ImportError:
 from kcc import KCC_gui
 from multiprocessing import freeze_support
 if sys.platform.startswith('darwin'):
+    # Workaround Finder-launched app PATH evaluation
     os.environ['PATH'] = '/usr/local/bin:' + os.environ['PATH']
     from kcc import KCC_ui_osx as KCC_ui
 elif sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ else:
     from kcc import KCC_ui
 
 
+# Implementing detection of already running KCC instance and forwarding argv to it
 class QApplicationMessaging(QtGui.QApplication):
     def __init__(self, argv):
         QtGui.QApplication.__init__(self, argv)

kcc/KCC_gui.py

@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ class WorkerThread(QtCore.QThread):
             if GUI.ColorBox.isChecked():
                 argv.append("--forcecolor")
         for i in range(GUI.JobList.count()):
+            # Make sure that we don't consider any system message as job to do
             if GUI.JobList.item(i).icon().isNull():
                 currentJobs.append(unicode(GUI.JobList.item(i).text()))
         GUI.JobList.clear()
@@ -255,6 +256,8 @@ class WorkerThread(QtCore.QThread):
                             mobiPath = item.replace('.epub', '.mobi')
                             shutil.move(mobiPath, mobiPath + '_toclean')
                             try:
+                                # MOBI file produced by KindleGen is hybrid. KF8 + M7 + Source header
+                                # KindleSplit is removing redundant data as we need only KF8 part for new Kindle models
                                 if profile in ['K345', 'KHD', 'KF', 'KFHD', 'KFHD8', 'KFHDX8', 'KFA']:
                                     newKindle = True
                                 else:
@@ -546,18 +549,20 @@ class Ui_KCC(object):
     def addMessage(self, message, icon=None, replace=False):
         if icon:
             icon = eval('self.icons.' + icon)
-            item = QtGui.QListWidgetItem(icon, '   ' + self.stripTags(message))
+            item = QtGui.QListWidgetItem(icon, '    ' + self.stripTags(message))
         else:
-            item = QtGui.QListWidgetItem('   ' + self.stripTags(message))
+            item = QtGui.QListWidgetItem('    ' + self.stripTags(message))
         if replace:
             GUI.JobList.takeItem(GUI.JobList.count()-1)
+        # Due to lack of HTML support in QListWidgetItem we overlay text field with QLabel
+        # We still fill original text field with transparent content to trigger creation of horizontal scrollbar
+        item.setTextColor(QtGui.QColor('transparent'))
         label = QtGui.QLabel(message)
         label.setStyleSheet('background-image:url('');background-color:rgba(255,0,0,0.5);')
         label.setOpenExternalLinks(True)
         font = QtGui.QFont()
         font.setPointSize(self.listFontSize)
         label.setFont(font)
-        item.setTextColor(QtGui.QColor('transparent'))
         GUI.JobList.addItem(item)
         GUI.JobList.setItemWidget(item, label)
         GUI.JobList.scrollToBottom()

kcc/image.py

@@ -207,9 +207,11 @@ class ComicPage:
         palImg.putpalette(self.palette)
         self.image = self.image.convert('L')
         self.image = self.image.convert('RGB')
+        # Quantize is deprecated but new function call it internally anyway...
         self.image = self.image.quantize(palette=palImg)
 
     def resizeImage(self, upscale=False, stretch=False, bordersColor=None, qualityMode=0):
+        # High-quality downscaling filter
         method = Image.ANTIALIAS
         if bordersColor:
             fill = bordersColor
@@ -224,6 +226,7 @@ class ComicPage:
         else:
             size = (self.panelviewsize[0], self.panelviewsize[1])
             generateBorder = False
+        # If image is smaller than screen and upscale is off - Just expand it
         if self.image.size[0] <= self.size[0] and self.image.size[1] <= self.size[1]:
             if not upscale:
                 borderw = (self.size[0] - self.image.size[0]) / 2
@@ -238,8 +241,10 @@ class ComicPage:
                                    int(round(float(borderh)/float(self.image.size[1])*100, 2)*100*1.5)]
                 return self.image
             else:
-                method = Image.BILINEAR
-        if stretch:  # If stretching call directly resize() without other considerations.
+                # Cubic spline interpolation in a 4x4 environment
+                method = Image.BICUBIC
+        # If stretching is on - Resize without other considerations
+        if stretch:
             self.image = self.image.resize(size, method)
             if generateBorder:
                 if fill == 'white':
@@ -258,6 +263,7 @@ class ComicPage:
                     self.noHPV = True
                     self.noVPV = True
             return self.image
+        # Otherwise - Upscale/Downscale
         ratioDev = float(self.size[0]) / float(self.size[1])
         if (float(self.image.size[0]) / float(self.image.size[1])) < ratioDev:
             diff = int(self.image.size[1] * ratioDev) - self.image.size[0]