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Old 07-21-2012, 10:04 AM   #1
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Question How to make the store button useful?

I have absolutely no need for the store button on the standard KT interface. I don't shop in the Amazon store and I haven't even registered my KT.

So how can I repurpose the store button?

A simple first step is to replace the store button image with one that is less ugly. Copy the attached image to your kindle and type this:
Code:
mntroot rw; cp space_invader.png /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/assets/search_bar/store.png ; mntroot ro
Afterwards you have to restart cvm or just the complete Kindle and you'll get a stylish little glyph where the ugly shopping cart was.

But that doesn't change its function yet. Does anybody know how to do this?

I'm currently still on 5.0.4 so I guess using nativeBridge.dbgCmd would have been an option but as we all know this will disappear with 5.1.1.

As far as I have come I think we have to inject an application into the lipc event system on the KT. If you have a html/js application on the KT that's probably easy as you can use wafapp to load that app. But there is no possibility to call a Java or native app from that web application?

Does anybody know how to do a lipc conforming Java or native app?
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Old 07-21-2012, 10:20 AM   #2
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Old 07-21-2012, 10:28 AM   #3
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I have absolutely no need for the store button on the standard KT interface. I don't shop in the Amazon store and I haven't even registered my KT.

So how can I repurpose the store button?

A simple first step is to replace the store button image with one that is less ugly. Copy the attached image to your kindle and type this:
Code:
mntroot rw; cp space_invader.png /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/assets/search_bar/store.png ; mntroot ro
Afterwards you have to restart cvm or just the complete Kindle and you'll get a stylish little glyph where the ugly shopping cart was.
That's not enough for 5.1.*. There is an additional (inverted) store_active.png - but that's just a minor detail.

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But that doesn't change its function yet. Does anybody know how to do this?
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=178752

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I'm currently still on 5.0.4 so I guess using nativeBridge.dbgCmd would have been an option but as we all know this will disappear with 5.1.1.
It already disappeared with 5.0.3

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As far as I have come I think we have to inject an application into the lipc event system on the KT. If you have a html/js application on the KT that's probably easy as you can use wafapp to load that app. But there is no possibility to call a Java or native app from that web application?

Does anybody know how to do a lipc conforming Java or native app?
I personally don't have first-hand experience, but it doesn't seem terribly complicated. You can take a look at the LIPC registry stuff, and a bit further. For instance, com.lab126.draw is a WAF app. It is launched through the native wafapp with a few parameters. You could launch any other native application similarly.
Code:
INSERT INTO "properties" VALUES('com.lab126.draw','command','/usr/bin/wafapp -l com.lab126.draw -c /var/local/waf/draw/');
While a Java booklet (in this case the home booklet) can be launched like this:
Code:
INSERT INTO "properties" VALUES('com.lab126.booklet.home','lipcId','com.lab126.booklet.home');
INSERT INTO "properties" VALUES('com.lab126.booklet.home','jar','/opt/amazon/ebook/booklet/home.jar');
INSERT INTO "properties" VALUES('com.lab126.booklet.home','supportedOrientation','U');
INSERT INTO "properties" VALUES('com.lab126.booklet.home','maxLoadTime','40');
INSERT INTO "properties" VALUES('com.lab126.booklet.home','maxGoTime','30');
INSERT INTO "properties" VALUES('com.lab126.booklet.home','defaultContext','context=0');
Needs a bit of experimentation, I guess, but absolutely feasible. Good luck
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Some more:

Maybe the easiest Booklet to dissect would be the com.lab126.booklet.test, because it's pretty small (the entire jar is only 33kB, and it only contains a dozen or so classes (including inner classes)).

It can be started using lipc-set-prop com.lab126.appmgrd start app://com.lab126.booklet.test

I haven't figured out how to "operate" it, probably by interacting with it through lipc itself:
Code:
[root@kindle root]# (lipc-probe -a -v|grep -A 7 '^com.lab126.booklet.test') 2>/dev/null
com.lab126.booklet.test
	w 	Str	runtest
	w	Str	pause
	w	Str	unload
	w	Str	stoptest
	w	Str	load
	w	Str	go
	w	Str	startresult
And here are the relevant entries in the registry:
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INSERT INTO "handlerIds" VALUES('com.lab126.booklet.test');
INSERT INTO "properties" VALUES('com.lab126.booklet.test','lipcId','com.lab 126.booklet.test');
INSERT INTO "properties" VALUES('com.lab126.booklet.test','jar','/opt/amazon/ebook/booklet/KAFtest.jar');
INSERT INTO "mimetypes" VALUES('runtest','MT:application/x-amazon-testrunner');
INSERT INTO "extenstions" VALUES('runtest','MT:application/x-amazon-testrunner');
INSERT INTO "associations" VALUES('com.lab126.booklet.test','application','MT :application/x-amazon-testrunner','true');


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Old 07-21-2012, 01:10 PM   #5
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That's not enough for 5.1.*. There is an additional (inverted) store_active.png - but that's just a minor detail.
5.0.* already has that too, although commented out in search_bar.css. Apparently the there are 2 pseudoclasses that can be used:
Code:
/* Commenting out to test no XOR look feel
.store:enabled:active {
    background-image: url('../assets/search_bar/store_active.png');
}*/
I would have thought that you still don't NEED a second image.

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I personally don't have first-hand experience, but it doesn't seem terribly complicated. You can take a look at the LIPC registry stuff, and a bit further. For instance, com.lab126.draw is a WAF app. It is launched through the native wafapp with a few parameters. You could launch any other native application similarly.
I forgot to mention that I already tried that with a native application. But then you get this in the log:
Code:
120721:190343 appmgrd[963]: W appmgr_history:timeout_check:lipc_id=com.lab126.store,state=EXECUTED:Timed out waiting for app to register a lipc id
and the app gets killed.

Thanks for the tip about com.lab126.booklet.test. I'll have a look at its decompiled source and try to use it.
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Old 09-21-2012, 03:06 PM   #6
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So, I finally had time to do something with this again.

For a minimal booklet it's actually quite simple. You just need to create a class that extends AbstractBooklet and adding Main-Class: your.package.path.and.BookletClass to META-INF/MANIFEST.MF and that gives you a simple empty window when started.

I hijacked the booklet com.lab126.booklet.testbooklet that should be contained in /opt/amazon/ebook/booklet/testBook.jar but this jar is missing from a non-debug KT. So I didn't even have to overwrite any original files. I used a symlink for testBook.jar, so I didn't had to always do a mntroot although I still had to restart cvm for every update.

Code:
mntroot rw
ln -s /mnt/us/testBook.jar /opt/amazon/ebook/booklet/testBook.jar
mntroot ro
lipc-set-prop com.lab126.appmgrd start app://com.lab126.booklet.testbooklet
There are many methods that you can implement, but so far I've only seen calls to the constructor and create(BookletContext bookletContext) when starting up for the first time, calls to start(URI contentURI) for every start and stop() when pressing the home button.

Here's a link to the class' source code. I'll also attach the jar.
https://gist.github.com/3762793

Wiring that booklet up to the store button is easy enough after this. Just changing in /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/javascripts/search_bar.js the STORE_ID constant to app://com.lab126.booklet.testbooklet and voilà.

Now I only need to extend that booklet to launch HackedUpReader. Should not be too hard.
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Old 09-22-2012, 12:59 PM   #7
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It was much less cumbersome than getting the booklet to work. I had to put the jar directly at /opt/amazon/ebook/booklet/testBook.jar as the security policies didn't allow the symlinked jar to work and I didn't feel like changing them.

I added some code that sends a QUIT signal to HackedUpReader when the booklet's stop() method gets called. So far I've only seen that when you press the home button. Also when you quit HackedUpReader the booklet sends the same event as when you press the back button.

I did this by calling the command line program ("lipc-set-prop com.lab126.appmgrd backward 0") as I didn't find out easily how you would do that within the Java framework.

It works fine so far although sometimes it hangs for a second or two while starting or stopping. I suspect some memory shortage and it has to discard some cached stuff first.

I don't think this is good enough for the general non-developing end user but it is good enough for me.

I've also put the source code onto github.
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Hi!
I have a similar problem here - i wanted to use the Store button to launch KTerm.
I added it to the database using the SQLite3 prompt:
Code:
INSERT INTO "handlerIds" VALUES('com.lab126.kterm');
and
Code:
INSERT INTO "properties" VALUES('com.lab126.kterm','command','/bin/sh /mnt/us/extensions/kterm/bin/kterm.sh');
I then changed the store button action to com.lab126.kterm: it now successfuly launched KTerm, but a few seconds after it launches, i get a dialog saying "Application Error: The selected application could not be started. Please try again". In the system log, i get the same error as bhaak :
Code:
140222:143540 appmgrd[2131]: W appmgr_history:timeout_check:lipc_id=com.lab126.kterm,state=EXECUTED:Timed out waiting for app to register a lipc id
Is it possible to get rid of the error dialog?
Thank you very much
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Perhaps register a lipc id ?
(in kterm.sh that is)
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What about launching a dummy booklet from kterm.sh that will just register the ID and won't do anything else ?
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Thank you very much for your quick answers!
I would like to keep this as simple as possible, as it's a simple tweak, so launching a dummy booklet sounds a bit like an overkill

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Perhaps register a lipc id ?
(in kterm.sh that is)
How could i achieve this? Is there a LIPC documentation somewhere?
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@tbx1024, you can try to modify behavior of search bar's elements without modifying stock files. As an example, here is how I added reaction to swiping over Menu button.

Useful links: how to run any program with LIPC, maybe you'll need to add DISPLAY=:0 to run Kterm.

Or just use Kindle Menu (which includes KTerm).

EDIT: to answer you initial question, yes, it's possible to get rid of error dialog, but not without changing Kterm's sources and recompiling. Applications from appreg.db are launched by appmgrd. appmgrd pings launched applications over LIPC, so Kterm shoud know how to answer on its start and how to notify appmgrd about exit from Kterm.

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