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Old 12-27-2008, 02:41 PM   #1
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Cool Improved ContentLister (with more items on a page)

Hi All,

UPDATED: SEE THE NEW THREAD!
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35374

====== DEPRECATED =====
I have modified contenLister to show more items on a page. I called it newLister so it can coexist with the existing one. It can display anything between 4 and 20 items on a page. I also increased the number of remembered 'recent documents' to 12...

This is a 'developer' version: no installer yet. To run it you have to do the following steps (using ssh):
  1. copy newLister somewhere in the flash disk. It cannot be on CF or SD since those devices are not mounted yet when contentLister is started. Personally I use the directory /home/root/my_start/ for this kind of stuff...
  2. copy newLister.rc and newcursor.png to /usr/share/contentLister
  3. edit /home/root/start.sh to start newLister instead of contenLister:
    Code:
    old: (/usr/bin/contentLister --sync ; reboot) &
    new: (/home/root/my_start/newLister --items 12 --sync ; reboot) &
  4. edit: check that newLister and start.sh are executable (chmod +x)
  5. reboot

Of course this is at your own risk I've used my improved Iliad without problems for a few days now. I think this is a stable version, but mistakes when editing start.sh can be 'fatal'. Let's be careful out there

Happy new 2009 preview,

Hansel.

Please give some feedback if you try this



PS:
  1. you can set the number of items with "--items n". The amount of displayed information for each item depends on n: same as with the current contentLister (4-8), title + subtitle or description (9-12), only title (13-20)
  2. A safer way to experiment with the start script is described here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33700
  3. The attached file contains a file sources.tgz: after unpacking this can be compiled in the same way as the original Irex contentLister (build_from_scratch.sh...)
  4. Comments and questions are welcome.
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Last edited by hansel; 01-02-2009 at 05:14 PM. Reason: new release
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