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Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel

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Originally Posted by TinaHolmboe (Post 862206)

But ... I am at a loss to find any way to add a book to the library from inside the application itself. It doesn't search sub-folders, despite the appropriate box being ticked.

That's odd - mine searches within subdirectories with no problems (my epub books are all in subdirectories by author). I'll look at re-adding the "Add book" option to the library menu though.

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Originally Posted by TinaHolmboe (Post 862206)

There's also the problem with the preference editor not migrated to Maemo UI, which makes changing options very, very hard indeed.

Yeah. There is a partly migrated version, but I need to look into how to get it enabled (and make sure it still offers all the options).

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Originally Posted by irene (Post 862216)

Need help pls
I have updated my fbreader to 0.12.10
and now it won't recognize fb2's or any formats but txt's

I'll try to grab some alternate formats and try them. That's all upstream functionality though, and certainly shouldn't be affected by any of the patches I've added.

EDIT2: I've just tried an fb2 (from fictionbook-lib.org) and that showed up (and opened) fine.

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Originally Posted by extendedping (Post 862282)

1) fs button does not exist in library mode, this means if you decide to exit the app in library mode you must either a) select a book first or b) use keyboard ctrl backspace to minimize app then hope your touch closes it (I usually miss and it just reexpand it).

You can also press "F" on the keyboard to exit full-screen mode. I'll look at forcing the fullscreen overlay back on for library view though (there's no way to add the FS button).

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Originally Posted by extendedping (Post 862282)

2) option to open app in full screen, since the ability to go to fs already exists, why not have this option?

Good question - should be straightforward enough to add.

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Originally Posted by extendedping (Post 862282)

3) library view that just shows book covers. for whatever reason my oreilly.com books work not so well with the library function in fbreader (but work better in say dorian). In fbreader. for instance I have 17 books but since it by default sorts by author, many of the books repeat in the library (I have 32 choices to be exact because if a book has multiple authors I get multiple entries for the same book). and I have to drill down through authors to get to the books. dorian and meebook on the other hand just show the book covers and titles, which is much easier. to have this functionality and to be able to set default library view would be great.

You could do this via the tag view (and deleting all tags from the books) but that's a bit messy. I'll have a look at how easy it'll be to do a non-clustered view. This'll get very messy if you have hundreds of books though (and how should it be sorted - by title I guess?).

Also, version 0.12.10-9 has now been uploaded, adding a basic library view option (in the preferences dialog). This shows only the author/series/title/tag label (with a +/- to indicate where they'll expand/collapse). The spacing looks reasonable enough to me, but let me know if you feel it's too spread out or too tight to easily select.

EDIT: Oh, the tap scrolling in the library view will have to wait - it's going to be a lot of work to add that in, so I'll look into some of these other issues/requests first.

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel

And you thought this would be a little side project :)

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel

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Originally Posted by Rob1n (Post 862322)

That's odd - mine searches within subdirectories with no problems (my epub books are all in subdirectories by author). I'll look at re-adding the "Add book" option to the library menu though.

I've just downloaded "First & Only" from the Black Library (Free eBook Fridays, yay), and copied it to

device:/home/user/.documents/MyDocs/ebooks/Black Library

THEN I found a spelling error in the "Book Path". Mea culpa; ignore the above problem report, please.

Now just to wait until FBreader has indexed everything down there ....

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel

Version 0.12.10-10 now uploaded. This adds an option to start in fullscreen mode, an extra view mode for the library (by name - without any hierarchy), and forces the fullscreen overlay button on in the Library view (making it easy to toggle back from fullscreen). There's also a few cleanups to the popup dialog code (added busy spinner) and the fullscreen code.

With adding the fullscreen startup option, I've added a new Startup tab to the preferences, and moved the option to start in the library view there as well (this may cause fbreader to forget the previous setting though, so check this if you're using this option).

The source code changes are available from here.

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel

you're really banging out the releases with the changes implemented, this is great :)

dorian seems to be moving too...its an all out ereader war (meebook is pretty far in the rear right now).

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel

i'm having problem opening .chm files since flashing to PR 1.3
already installed the latest 0.12.10-10 still having problem

tried opening .chm files from file manager and point fbreader to open it but still no luck

.chm books didn't showed in the library eventhough the path are correct
there is no add book icon or option in the library

any idea how to fix this?

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel

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Originally Posted by adhrie (Post 863405)

I'll have a play around with that this evening - I should definitely be able to get the "Add book" option in, but I'll also try to track down why it's not seeing them in the first place.

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel

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Originally Posted by Rob1n (Post 863417)

I'll have a play around with that this evening - I should definitely be able to get the "Add book" option in, but I'll also try to track down why it's not seeing them in the first place.

And I've just tried the desktop version, and the version in scratchbox. They both load .chm files fine, as long as the option to collect books without metadata is enabled. Can you make sure this is set and see whether that helps?

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel

Ok first off thanks for all the work you are putting in. 2 issues I noticed off the bat.

1) I selected the new show covers view and I could neither swipe or use the volume rocker button to move down to page 2.

2) I know I cried wolf earlier, but it seems the little fs button no longer works at all. I tried 2 recalibrations and a reboot, and after 5 minutes of poking in and around fs with my stylus, it never exited full screen.

also just to make things more intuitive, it might make sense to put the options to show the fs and the other one to keep bigger full screen button on the same page in options, as they kind of relate but unless you read these threads it would be hard to figure out what do do just browsing though preferences. I would explain the options I am talking about better but since I opted for the new "start in full screen mode" and I can't use fs to exit it I can't get to the preferences dialogue :(

a final request (well they are never final are they?)...you have the small swipe option, is there a way to make it swipe more then one line at a time? like say 3 lines? again sorry it that option is already there but I am locked out at this moment...

Re: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel

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Originally Posted by extendedping (Post 863472)

1) I selected the new show covers view and I could neither swipe or use the volume rocker button to move down to page 2.

Swipe definitely won't work - there's no support for that in the library view at all. Presumably the old version just mapped the library into the book view, so inherited all the same functionality, whereas the new version has totally separate frameworks for each. The volume rocker button works fine here though, in any library mode.

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Originally Posted by extendedping (Post 863472)

2) I know I cried wolf earlier, but it seems the little fs button no longer works at all. I tried 2 recalibrations and a reboot, and after 5 minutes of poking in and around fs with my stylus, it never exited full screen.

Again, I can't reproduce this one. It sometimes takes a couple of presses, but I've no problem using either finger or stylus.

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Originally Posted by extendedping (Post 863472)

also just to make things more intuitive, it might make sense to put the options to show the fs and the other one to keep bigger full screen button on the same page in options, as they kind of relate but unless you read these threads it would be hard to figure out what do do just browsing though preferences. I would explain the options I am talking about better but since I opted for the new "start in full screen mode" and I can't use fs to exit it I can't get to the preferences dialogue :(

From one point of view, yes. However, one is a global option (applying to the indicator bar, so present on that tab) and the other is maemo-specific (so on the Maemo tab).

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Originally Posted by extendedping (Post 863472)

a final request (well they are never final are they?)...you have the small swipe option, is there a way to make it swipe more then one line at a time? like say 3 lines? again sorry it that option is already there but I am locked out at this moment...

That's already there - on the Scrolling tab there's an option "Lines to Scroll per Line Scrolling". The small swipe just calls the line scroll function, so should use this value.

You can edit the ~/.FBReader/options.xml and edit the StartFullscreen option if you want to get access back to the menu. I'd recommend adding a shortcut for fullscreen mode as well (I thought that was a default, but apparently not - I'll see about adding this in for the next release).

EDIT: Ah, Ctrl+Enter is the default fullscreen toggle keybinding.