Software Wishlist

[tribble]

When i power on the device, i want it to put me right back, where i left of (unless i removed the necessary media)

[jæd]

Originally Posted by tribble

When i power on the device, i want it to put me right back, where i left of (unless i removed the necessary media)

Ie, you want a "sleep" mode.

[stinky ox]

Basically it should be *in* sleep mode whenever you're just reading a page.

Ideally.

[VillageReader]

Originally Posted by b_k

what games could one imagine, working with 1 screen refresh per second?
I have no idea, what could be working with that limitation.

chess
backgammon
card games
...

[joblack]

A chm viewer (like xchm) would be very, very helpfull.

Also some support for other formats like djvu, lit and palm ...

Some Unzip capabilites so the ebooks doesn´t take so much space ...

[jæd]

Originally Posted by joblack

A chm viewer (like xchm) would be very, very helpfull.

Also some support for other formats like djvu, lit and palm ...

Some Unzip capabilites so the ebooks doesn´t take so much space ...

Um... Do you know that chm is just compiled html...? You can use many tools to extract it to html on Windows & Mac, and on Linux you can use extract_chmlib.

But yes... Chm would be nice to have...

[joblack]

Yeah I surely know that ...

Don´t want to convert it - why always converting stuff??

I want to read the stuff as it is .. under "normal Linux" it is all possible ..

[jæd]

Originally Posted by joblack

Yeah I surely know that ...

Don´t want to convert it - why always converting stuff??

I want to read the stuff as it is .. under "normal Linux" it is all possible ..

Yep... And if Irex don't supply a reader, I'm feling that I'm going to supply my own as I have quite a few manuals and programming books in chm format already....

[joblack]

You just have to recomile xchm, should not be that big deal .. the same with djvu or palm reader ...

We just need full access to the machine ..

[arivero]

Originally Posted by joblack

the same with djvu

djvu is funny because we would have note taking already available: the usual method to see djvu is to do a small key-oriented navigation that extracts each requested page towards bmp or jpg and then feeds it into the picture viewer. And iLiad picture viewer does already implement inking

[scotty1024]

Originally Posted by joblack

You just have to recomile xchm, should not be that big deal ..

I don't have an Iliad but just from looking at the screen shots I can tell you that you don't just recompile xchm to make it work on an Iliad. Someone would need to adapt the event handling and UI rendering logic and likely things like startup/shutdown logic as well.

My wish is that they supported a ghostscript mode, where you could shut down X and use Postscript to drive the eInk screen.

[scotty1024]

My next request, hopefully easier for Irex than ghostscript...

How about an iLiad CGI that you can POST to from an XHTML form so you can persist small bits of information? Like say an XHTML calendar? The data would be stored in a flat XML file in a location specified in the FORM tag? THe data would be retrieved via a GET operation into the same CGI.

Note to Irex: If you send me a developer email I'll happily create it myself.

This trivial little addition would allow several forms of software development via XHTML...

[tirsales]

Originally Posted by DHer

well, a DSA (or DND or Shadowrun) assistant on the iliad would be great.

Well, for Shadowrun a number of assistants (using e.g. XLS-Sheets) is already available from Dumpshock, they could possibly be used with the Spreadsheet-Program (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...eadsheet+iliad)
Most Rulebooks are available as PDF form e.g. battlecorps - though some of them are quite huge.
Other things like 'cheat sheets' (see dumpshock) or home-grown PDFs with rulesets, tables, etc are easy.
I don't know how good the java-implementation is, a number of java-applets could eventually be run (e.g. dice generator, table lookups, etc)

As soon as I get the money raised, I will get myself an iLiad and, yes I intent to use it as my new GM-tool. Thus yes, in the long run I will port some kind of SR-assisstant program.
If I find a D&D group I will perhaps do the same for D&D. But don't expect anything in the near future.

Possible games: Solitaire, Minesweeper, and similar
All kinds of "record sheet" or "notes sheet" (e.g. for Yatzee, Battleships, ....)
(Anybody else thinking "diplomacy" right now?)
Games like Scrabble would be easy, though you would either need two iLiads to play or a "hot chair" mechanism. Same applies to games like battleship, Backgammon, ...
Most "play against the computer" cardgames should be possible.

[voidcaller]

Did anybody wished for a contenlister that will display more items per page by not making all records the same (usually way to big) height? It will be good if we can have a page of contenlister settings, like wrap long filenames, display file date, font size for file names. It should not be hard to autogenerate html file for nice view of each folder?

[tribble]

Originally Posted by voidcaller

Did anybody wished for a contenlister that will display more items per page by not making all records the same (usually way to big) height?

About everyone who has an iLiad.