In this thread we can continue to discuss pros and cons of desired features.

Otherwise iRex has dedicated subforums regarding all feature requests and BUG REPORTS:
General DR1000 forum (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewforum.php?f=41)
Feedback and Bugs only forum (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewforum.php?f=44)
PC Companion Software forum (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewforum.php?f=42)
Pressreader forum (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewforum.php?f=45)

In case this post is not up-to-date, this wiki (http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Digital_Reader_Software) might prove informative.

Direct link to iRex' firmware repository (http://updates.irexnet.com/embedded/dr1000/) (manual install, latest.zip always contains the current version)
The PC Companion Software (http://updates.irexnet.com/companion/dr1000/) (if the automatic update doesn't work for you)

Current Software Version (Release Notes):

1.7 (http://support.irexnet.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=8) / PDF version (http://support.irexnet.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=43)

Older versions:

1.6 (http://support.irexnet.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=7) / PDF version (http://support.irexnet.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=42)
1.5 (http://support.irexnet.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=6) / PDF version (http://support.irexnet.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=40) / Updated User Manual (http://support.irexnet.com/index.php?_m=downloads&_a=viewdownload&downloaditemid=39)
1.03 (no release notes, strictly adds PressReader (http://www.irextechnologies.com/pressreader) functionality)
1.02 (http://support.irexnet.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=3)
1.01 (http://support.irexnet.com/index.php?_m=news&_a=viewnews&newsid=2)

General Update Notes:

- Tabbed Task Manager added, Spanish & Italian added, other fixes & improvements in 1.7.
- Improved keyboard and more power management tweaks in 1.6. (Updated NewsReader)
- Improved user interface and better power management in 1.5.
- Improved pen speed, more accurate battery indicator in 1.02.

Not yet implemented as of 1.7:

- Still no Eraser (and extra button) support for the Pro pen, as announced at the DR1000 launch(!). Somewhat alleviated in 1.5 by using corresponding shortcut in toolbar, but of course the pen eraser would even work in fullscreen mode when the toolbar isn't visible.

- Related: For the sketching functionality, using the one pen button as UNDO would improve usability a lot, especially in fullscreen mode.

- Very important: There is no "Clear page" in the Writing menu, right now everything has to be erased stroke by stroke using the eraser... CURRENT WORKAROUND: From a PC: erase the corresponding metadata.db or rename the original PDF, but that also removes any other info stored in the same file.

- Enable Text Input in addition to sketching. The software keyboard is already there... faster to write, easier to read. Should be fairly easy to store in the metadata.db

- Remember the view setting per folder. The Home folder is nice to have as icons for instance, but for picture/PDF folders the list view is more convenient. Somewhat alleviated in 1.5 by using corresponding shortcut in toolbar.

- Remember the last image/document in a folder (i.e. when returning to that folder, it will be highlighted rather than the first item in the folder) Similar to remembering last page viewed in document. Current clunky workaround: Create shortcut instead.

- For large volumes of single pages or images, browse compressed folders & display their content as long as it's in a supported format would be very useful (instead of literally having over 10000 files on my reader because of that)

- Expanded font menu with custom fonts/styles, esp. add at least a SERIF font! 1.5 adds more font sizes at least. CURRENT WORKAROUND: Use the recently released FBReader (http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31190).

- Improve controls when zooming: (some improvements in 1.5 (zoom levels))
1) Optional key assignment in preferences (i.e. left and bottom for panning, right for flipping pages or similar) when images are LARGER than display.
2) Auto-detect zoom-level/image-size: If the image is SMALLER than display, do NOT enable PAN.
(Currently you can only flip through a series of images when using Full Screen, Fit to Screen or Hide Margins (Not Page Flow) When using ANY Zoom setting, all the keys are switched to panning even when the image is SMALLER than the screen resolution. You have to use the pen (and no full screen) to flip pages in this mode. CURRENT WORKAROUND: Pan can be manually disabled in the Zooming menu!

- The "Go To Page" feature should also be an icon in the menu! Right now I have to disable Full Screen mode every time I want to use that feature (to be able to click on the current page to call up the window)

- "Close -ALL- Documents" icon in the top-level menu, instead of the submenu for each individual document... (I ran out of memory when zooming in a large image, which resulted in instability and reset after the warning, so that would be a quick way to free it up as much as possible.)

- Display Owner's information at boot-up and maybe in the Info panel, in case it gets lost and an honest soul actually wants to return it.

- Adjust contrast/design of software keyboard. Would just involve updating the graphics... (the letters are clearly visible, the rest not so much. In some ways the Iliad one was a better design.)

- Rotate screen 180 degrees in Portrait Mode. Useful to get Menu keys out of the way when scribbling, USB cable connector out of the way when used while recharging. Currently only an option in Landscape Mode (via Buttons on the left or right side option)

Long-term Features:

- Proper (X)HTML + CSS support. Planned in upcoming browser, which will be available to everybody, not just owners of the upcoming DR1000SW. The DR1000SW has been much delayed, so that probably means no support for the foreseeable future. CURRENT WORKAROUND: Use -latest- version of FBReader.

- 2-page display, especially in Landscape mode, when reading mostly text.

- Real Keyboard Support, USB or Bluetooth (very unlikely)

Implemented in some form as of 1.7:

- Switch the margin color between black and white (in Personal Preferences maybe) Right now the default is black, but I would prefer white, if only because when I print on a real piece of paper, the unprinted area remains white too. White is now default as of 1.7!

- Use the icons in the menu bar not just as static status indicators, but also as active shortcuts (ex. click on the padlock to lock/unlock the keys, click on the pen icon to cycle through the different modes: pan, write...) Then add a few more! Added in 1.5, with additional shortcuts.

- Saving the "Zooming" menu preferences for each document/image folder would be very useful, especially with all the current resets/shutdowns... Added in 1.01. Still somewhat buggy. Fixed in 1.5

- Improve sketching performance and accuracy! Much Improved in 1.02. Probably no longer an issue: It would nice to see a separate pixel/bitmap-based sketching application that takes full advantage of the pen and the screen tech, and is more sophisticated and dedicated than the sketch functionality right now. The current one works OK, and inside/on top of documents for annotations (which is certainly useful). The new one could be dedicated and do away with the required compatibility with other doc formats and their metadata.db

- remember the last page read, even across a reset. Added in 1.01.

I would like to be able to rotate the image 360degrees and not just 90deg. Largely because I'd prefer to hold the device in landscape mode but with the buttons on the RHS, or even "upside down".

I would like to be able to rotate the image 360degrees and not just 90deg. Largely because I'd prefer to hold the device in landscape mode but with the buttons on the RHS, or even "upside down".

If you rotate something 360° then it would look the same as it does now. I assume you want to rotate it 180°?

BOb

No & Yes. Since I suspect that they would only keep a single rotate icon, I would wish the icon to rotatet the page 90degrees everytime you touch/operat it so that you would eventually go through a full 360 degrees.

No & Yes. Since I suspect that they would only keep a single rotate icon, I would wish the icon to rotatet the page 90degrees everytime you touch/operat it so that you would eventually go through a full 360 degrees.

I see what you are saying now.

BOb

I would like to be able to rotate the image 360degrees and not just 90deg. Largely because I'd prefer to hold the device in landscape mode but with the buttons on the RHS, or even "upside down".

Do You know there is an option in Device Settings to chose whether Landscape mode is clockwise or anticlockwise (i.e. the "bottom" keys will be either on the lefthand or righthand side)?

I guess they could make it more easily accessible, but then again once I picked a side, I haven't really changed it since then.

Doh!
You are quite right, I'd even used it before. Too many menus to get used to.:o
Thanks for the reminder. I've just been using it most of the day ad thinking I' sure I had the display the other way round...

Howard

Bumping this thread back up, I apologize if it inconveniences someone here, in which case I won't do it again.

Please keep adding your own suggestions!!

I think it's easier to keep track of things if it's in one thread like this.

Love the big screen, but the majority of pdfs I read are still book size, so I'd love a feature to view consecutive pages two at a time in double-page-spreads, and each page turn skipping to the next such spread (one screen, pp1-2, next, pp3-4, etc). Holding it in landscape, it's easily big enough, would give more of a 'natural book-reading experience', and would half the number of page turns, extending battery life.

Aside from the usual power management fix,

I think pdf support it's a little buggy for large pdfs: Mainly the buffering algorithm needs to be unproved: my DR seems to take too much time (30s+) rendering some pages (and that's with the CPU at full speed...) and more often than not it will just hang. But this it's just a bug, not really a feature.
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Feature request:

I usually read pdfs in continuous mode with margin crop, but that's not enough to disple an entire A4, a little it's left out and you have scroll using pan.

But I you don't wanna use the stylus (I have mine turned off for better battery life...:p), you must use the keys, and I've found that the amount of scroll per key press isn't always right, and there is a lot of wasted screen just displaying the blank page separation graphics.

So I'd like to propose a better key-scroll.

While in continuous mode with margin crop if you click the pan icon, horizontal keys (< 0 >) would scroll only within the limits of the current page, while lateral keys would operate as usual: page forward/backward.

This is not difficult to implement and I think it would make the reading experience much more efficient. And because of the aforementioned blank space problem I don't really think it would increment the screen refreshes per page, since we would need 2 refreshes/ page as usual.

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2) I need to figure out the exact workings of the margin crop function (I haven't used it with image based pdfs, yet...). But I suspect that it has a white detection trigger.
IMHO for text based pdfs the function could be a little more aggressive and just barely crop to the width of the text layer. Ignoring background elements.

Does anybody know a bit more about how it works?

Many PDFs I use, being publishers' proofs, have crop marks at the edges, with a lot of white space inside them, then the text inside that. The 'Hide Margins' feature, therefore, only crops to the edge of the crop marks, which still leaves a lot of margin. I can zoom into the text, of course, which is great. However, if I then press an arrow, because I'm zoomed, it doesn't turn a page, it only pans within that zoomed page. On the iLiad, if you zoomed, then turned a page, it would go to the next page and maintain the same zoom. Which is perfect for me. As it is, the only way I can turn pages while maintaining a zoom on a document at the moment is using the stylus to touch the next-page box at the bottom, which means I can't use full-screen (my preferred view) and isn't a very natural way of turning pages. I would like to be able to set a preference so that pressing an arrow key in a zoomed pdf turns a page, rather than panning within that page.

I would like to be able to set a preference so that pressing an arrow key in a zoomed pdf turns a page, rather than panning within that page.

Great, we want the same, one set of keys to pan and the other for page up/down. :)

Great, we want the same, one set of keys to pan and the other for page up/down. :)

To quote another user over at the irex forum (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=3001)...

'The problem is that once you have zoomed, it defaults to pan mode (which is a pain in the ****). You can turn off the pan mode by pressing the menu button and un-highlighting the pan icon (in the other section at the bottom). But it would be much better if the buttons stayed as page flips and let the stylus do pan. There's far too much pressing of the menu button needed to do basic stuff, which makes the whole interface seem really slow.'

Right on both counts.

This might sound dumb, and is obviously a small thing, but in a next-gen version, they should put the mini-usb port on the TOP! Not the bottom! It sounds like nothing, but with it located as it is now, it means that if you're reading while the machine is charging, you can't comfortably rest it on your lap and you can't rest it at all on a table, because there's a lead poking out from its bottom edge.

they should put the mini-usb port on the TOP! Not the bottom! I suggest looking into right angled adaptors. Most seem to be for Motorola phones, and these are not quite mini-USB spec (but they are reported to work with mini-USB devices for charging). See for example EMU Right Angle Charger Adapter (http://www.cell-phone-accessories.com/emu.html).

I suggest looking into right angled adaptors.

Thank you for the suggestion, I'll follow it up. That would clearly be an improvement - I'd still prefer the slot in the top, though, because even with something little like this, the bottom edge of the reader won't be flat, so I can't prop it against a tabletop, which is how I tend to read.

I don't like it at the bottom, I'd prefer it on the side, however there are difficulties no matter where you put it. A "tether" will always be awkward for some dependant on how they use it.

I fully agree a better pan and scroll with the keys would be nice, just an incremental pan say a line or 2 at a time would be nice & with a jump of say 5 - 10 lines if held for a bit longer.
I understnad the problems of e-ink in that repsenct but sometimes you only need a line or 2 to sho the end or page edge, especially with A4 or simillar documents.

I don't like it at the bottom, I'd prefer it on the side, however there are difficulties no matter where you put it. A "tether" will always be awkward for some dependant on how they use it.

I fully agree a better pan and scroll with the keys would be nice, just an incremental pan say a line or 2 at a time would be nice & with a jump of say 5 - 10 lines if held for a bit longer.
I understnad the problems of e-ink in that repsenct but sometimes you only need a line or 2 to sho the end or page edge, especially with A4 or simillar documents.

Why not just have the pan limit itself to the page? Then if there is only a couple of lines it would pan only a couple of lines. I think this is better than trying to move the display one or two lines at a time when you don't know where the edge is.

Dale

At the request other members, I tried to get this thread marked as sticky a few days ago, but nothing has happened. I haven't even received a simply 2-letter NO reply to my request. Maybe I'm going about it the wrong way since I have never done this before.

The only contact I could find is this generic page:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sendmessage.php
(other boards usually have a direct link to a moderator of that specific group)

Any advice? Did I miss something obvious?

At the request other members, I tried to get this thread marked as sticky a few days ago, but nothing has happened. I haven't even received a simply 2-letter NO reply to my request. Maybe I'm going about it the wrong way since I have never done this before.

The only contact I could find is this generic page:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/sendmessage.php
(other boards usually have a direct link to a moderator of that specific group)

Any advice? Did I miss something obvious?

the best way to request a sticky is to send a pm to a moderator (look for the names in green). i'm not sure where the contact form messages arrive, but they probably go to alex, and he's been busy / travelling lately so might not have seen it.

Or use the ! button to "report" the first post and put your request as the "reason". Worked pretty fast for me :)

Or use the ! button to "report" the first post and put your request as the "reason". Worked pretty fast for me :)

yes, or do that. ;)

Well, I saw the reported post and have stuck (stickied?) the thread, as requested.

does anyone know if you can hook up a mini-USB keyboard for note-taking on the DR1000S? if not, could someone pretty please enable that feature? I type much faster than I write...

does anyone know if you can hook up a mini-USB keyboard for note-taking on the DR1000S? if not, could someone pretty please enable that feature? I type much faster than I write...

Not in the short term. This was already discussed on this forum, if you care to search for related posts.

There is still some speculation if the available USB port could be hacked to work in Host Mode (it's not supported by iRex, but maybe the hardware does) Then you would need an adapter: female standard USB connector -> male Mini B USB connector. I haven't found one anywhere.

The best bet for keyboard support might be the upcoming wireless version of the DR1000, which includes Bluetooth. The reader has a software keyboard though, otherwise if typing is a priority may I suggest something called a "laptop" ;)

Then you would need an adapter: female standard USB connector -> male Mini B USB connector. I haven't found one anywhere.


What you need is a female-female adapter and they are common. I use one to be able to connect for example a keyboard to my Nokia N810.

What you need is a female-female adapter and they are common. I use one to be able to connect for example a keyboard to my Nokia N810.
Didn't think of that: standard Mini B cable into the reader, Female-Female adapter inbetween, USB keyboard cable at the end... That's a lotta cable, could sit across the room with that :D

The best bet for keyboard support might be the upcoming wireless version of the DR1000, which includes Bluetooth. Yes, although the FAQ (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=2859) says: Q: In what facility has Bluetooth been implemented?
A: The main function is to setup a data connection to a 3G enabled mobile phone (dial-up) in order to connect to the internet. Other functions can be added depending customer requests.

Unlike the USB port, which may or may not have the hardware for keyboard support, it is definitely possible to support a bluetooth keyboard with the right software on the DR1000SW.

Thanks for all the feedback, I will make sure to check this regularly and pass on these items

by the way there is also a sub-forum (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewforum.php?f=44) at the iRex forum to post your feedback and bugs, which we will monitor and comment on.

The iLiad had one little thing that the DR doesn't - the option to open to the document (and place) that you were at when you closed down.

If that could be implemented I'd be a happier munchkin. ('Happier' because I'm certainly not unhappy with the DR just as it is.)

Annoying blinking green light at top of Irex Digital Reader!

I haven't seen anyone else suggest this (nor figured out how to remove this...), but when the reader is turned on you have a blinking green light at the top... blinking ALL the time!

Now, seriously - I know the reader is turned on, because it responds when I press a button etc, why would I need this annoying green blinking light? I can see the need for it to blink when the battery is almost dead, to tell me that its time to charge or preserve battery, but not when the battery is fully charged.

It annoys me to no end as I keep seeing the green light at the edge of my vision when reading... I'm very happy with the Irex Digital Reader except for this constant disruption of my concentration when trying to read!

If anyone knows of a fix, please do tell! :-)

Annoying blinking green light at top of Irex Digital Reader!


If anyone knows of a fix, please do tell! :-)

A small piece of tape? :-)

Or you can turn off all LEDs in the settings. But then also the button LEDs are off, what I dont like...

Gogolo

So the toolbar has finally become much more useful with the addition of the shortcut dropboxes & clickable lock etc. (Since they are only accessible via the stylus, I suspect this is tied to iRex no longer bothering with a non-stylus version?)

All the better. There has been some discussion on the shortage of shortcut spaces (though that is somewhat alleviated by having separate ones depending on the application used, PDF Viewer, File Browser etc.). Some have proposed cycling through the pen icon, a bit bothersome considering how many there are.

Here is my proposal (see the attached picture... on the Mobileread forum anyway, iRex's forum (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?t=3553) does not allow images :( )

- Have them all visible on the right side. Highlight the one currently active. Gray/Black out any one that is not currently available.

- To further optimize the space, move the "Zzz" to the battery icon where it belongs. Practically, that means switching between 4 icons depending on the power state: On Battery (active), On Battery (Zzz), Charging (active) & Charging (Zzz)

So there you go. Technically I think it should be feasible since it does not introduce any new functionality to the toolbar itself.

This would free up quite a few slots on the left side, in case there is a technical reason for the 8 slots, and not just an arbitrary one.

Comments welcome.

Repeat from the iRex forum:

Just to confirm you have the pencil, eraser, pan and then two other pen tools the purpose of which I'm not so sure, then dictionary look up and lock and power.

I recommend having only one "pen" tool, press it once, you get pen, press it again and you get eraser, press it again and you turn the pen off. That's one spot instead of two/three.

I recommend putting zoom in and zoom out as well as pan in this right hand side area.

The rest I think are great ideas.

I totally agree with reworking the visible toolbar, the fewer things that are in the main menu the better, then it can be relegated or redesigned. The main menu itself is really poor UI. It really should be a simple list view that you can use one left or right button sensor group to navigate, having to press the lower sensors and left or right sensors to make a selection is tedious and slow and having to go into other screens to activate other features which also need multiple sensors to make a selection is also tedious and slow. I almost always navigate the menu with my stylus.

I also recommend that a button press combination be enacted that restores the toolbar to view when it is off the screen. A long menu button press for example?

A little more toying with Photoshop: With the release of the Leafpad text editor, and pending the off-chance of physical Keyboard connectivity, the on-screen keyboard is still the only way to enter information, and it is frankly not very legible.

So I did a test to see how it could look (see attachment in the Mobileread forum, not available on the iRex forum (http://forum.irexnet.com/viewtopic.php?p=16917))

Very likely the current keyboard consists of either one big image file or several smaller ones, so it should be fairly easy to replace them using a script like the font/additional language uploaders or the FBReader content browser update/restore scripts. I can't verify it well myself since the OS folder on the internal memory is not very accessible (nobody has released a console app yet...)

I can't do much in those terms but if somebody with more programming knowledge is interested in the challenge, I'm certainly up for doing all graphic work & testing!

Grumpy I think you're on to something there, such a small change and such a huge difference!

The keyboard seems to be in: matchbox-keyboard-0.1+svnr1881.tar.gz anyone with enough time to have a go? :)
I see an xml-file describing the keyboard (So it is text-based not image based), but no obvious place to change the appearance.

I had a look. Check out the readme files in the tarball, there's a lot of info there on how to customize the keyboard (Azerty-keyboard for example).

The keyboard and the toolbar are both matchbox applications. More info on these via http://matchbox-project.org/.

Well the Matchbox keyboards look better than the one on the DR.

Cap sense buttons coincidentally activation

Cap sense buttons should only act at double quick touching the button, otherwise its functionality will be ignored. So user will be able to carry the reader at the cap sense place and they will not be activated. They will be activated just in case of double click

Even the currently hold press can be replaced by triple click.

If it were possible to use the LEDs for the buttons, without the LED at the top of the unit being on too, then your suggestion would be less distracting to implement.

If possible I would like to see a small notepad that can overlay a book. Sometimes lots of bookmarks, underlines or notes in a book are too difficult to keep organized. It is not possible to compile a summary of notes. With a notepad on top of a book I can then write a set of notes that can later be viewed sequentially.

Another option might be to display a note taking area whenever a bookmark is created.

If possible I would like to see a small notepad that can overlay a book.
I am trying to add an icon in the taskbar for leafpad, that would allow you to switch between your document and leafpad the same way as you now switch between documents.
In theory this is not that difficult. (Add some code from hello-world (ipc.c) and add the correct libraries to link against.) However I am having a fight with autoreconf to do this the proper way. When running autoreconf --install, I am getting:
configure.ac:5: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_INTLTOOL
If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
See the Autoconf documentation.

Any ideas?

The iLiad had one little thing that the DR doesn't - the option to open to the document (and place) that you were at when you closed down.

If that could be implemented I'd be a happier munchkin. ('Happier' because I'm certainly not unhappy with the DR just as it is.)

YES - that would really be helpful.

Let's say - start the device - go to Main Menu --> last 5 opened Documents
So to say a QuickLink to the last five documents.
(Keep in mind a 16 GB SD Card holds a lot of documents and a huge directory structure. And it's really annoying to navigate through the whole directory tree after each and every re-start.

//Chris

[B]
Let's say - start the device - go to Main Menu --> last 5 opened Documents
So to say a QuickLink to the last five documents.


They've talked about this before on their forum. My understanding is that a "recent documents" list is definitely something they are planning on adding, but they wanted to get the power management sorted out first.

A spreadsheet app would be nice, one that can do graphs.

Admitedly it is then becoming more like a PC than a Reader, but, it would still be very useful.

A feature I would like to see is an "Underline" option. This feature would draw a line after marking two points.

Most of the time I use my reader I highlight parts of a text just underlying them, but unfortunately there is no way to get a straight line (the train movement is not helping me, but even sitting in a chair I also have troubles).

I would like to see Xournal incorporated into system. Several of the features requested would become available with the incorporation of this program. For instance, drawing straight lines under text is a snap. Erasing entire sections within a notepad is very easy - in fact entire sections of scribbling can be moved around the page. The todo list seems short (perhaps beguilingly so): improve the refresh rate (it is already workable) and port the PDF libraries. The resolution of the scribbles is much superior to the native scribbles and the ability to save named files instead on sequentially named copies of templates makes file retrieval a snap. Merging and renaming template copies is too cumbersome. Plus merge does not work on my computer: I have to go to another computer.

A feature I would like to see is an "Underline" option. This feature would draw a line after marking two points.

Most of the time I use my reader I highlight parts of a text just underlying them, but unfortunately there is no way to get a straight line (the train movement is not helping me, but even sitting in a chair I also have troubles).
I totally agree... Underlining and/or highlighting are the very last "big" improves that I would from Irex. :)
I hope they will added soon!

mobi-support for future firmware-release...

Finally updated the sticky top post with the current info after a pretty long absence.

Going over things, it is somewhat depressing how little headway is made at iRex in improving the usability of a very expensive device, especially since a lot of it is software/firmware related. Like accessing the Go To Page dialogue in fullscreen mode, or the criminally underused tablet functionality: Pen buttons, pressure sensitivity, a couple of gray color choices...

Never mind compressed folder support, or at least remembering the position/document within an uncompressed one. Or a serif font. Or having a simple toggle to choose between a black or white background for docs that don't fit the DR1000's screen.

Sometimes I get the impression that only a couple of software engineer are left on the project...

1.7, whenever it arrives (I can't believe people are still getting worked up over that), will be another little step in the right direction, but by next year time will run out for iRex with the kind of competition that's around the corner... and it's nice they want to get a color reader ready by 2011 (http://i-to-i.irexnet.com/2009/06/03/full-color-irex-digital-reader-coming-in-2011/), but even that one would benefit from having a solid OS/UI foundation to build on, and we sure aren't there yet...

In the meantime I still use the device with biggest, most hires screen currently on the market regularly, warts and all, wishing it could be all it can be.

Sometimes I get the impression that only a couple of software engineer are left on the project...


They're a very small company. They've probably always had only a couple software engineers.

What about a small, optional digital clock at the bottom-right corner?


Going over things, it is somewhat depressing how little headway is made at iRex in improving the usability of a very expensive device, especially since a lot of it is software/firmware related.
Sage words... :chinscratch:They're a very small company. They've probably always had only a couple software engineers.
Ok but it isn't an excuse.. In that case they simply should hire more programmers.

Ok but it isn't an excuse.. In that case they simply should hire more programmers.

I never claimed it was an excuse, I was just confirming allovertheglobe's impression.

Hi,
I'm looking for somebody that is able to write a little program for the iRex DR1000S. I want to use the device as a nice picture frame, because sometimes its just lying in the room and I want to have it looking nice.

I want to have a folder or something where I can put a picture in and what is displayed fullscreen when shutting down the device, suppressing the clear-function after being switched off.

Is this simple or complicated to implement?

Thank you very much for your help,
Robert, Germany.