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cipri · 02-25-2011, 02:15 PM

Could the people who insult JimStar introduce themself?

As a hobby-developer (c++) i can confirm that JimStar is right.

The PB 903 that i have has a lot of bugs and short-comings, and a lot of bugs could be solved in the time of some minutes, but PB seems to not care a lot about them.

About 1 year ago, I wrote an pdf-viewer, and therefore I know that the pdf-viewer that PB made is of poor quality, it could be made a lot better, with annotations with margin-cuts with better zooming capabilities and and and ..... This is not at all a big work, but it seems pb needs month for solving minor bugs. Perhaps they are already bussy with making a new product, otherwise i can not explain, how they didnt improve the software which has even such stupid bugs, which makes me think if the people who wrote it also used to test what they coded.

I asked PB if they can open-source the programm scribble, so that i can get familiar with the api, and making a "hand-writing application". I just got a message 2 month ago from "fork", and he was saying that the developers are working on a "hand-writing-application". Fact is, that nothing happened, even such a application based on scribble could be coded in a few days, even by an not talented developer. But nothing happened. Fork never again responded to questions realted to that application.

I was curious on which pdf rendering library the pdfviewer is built up (because it has some serious problems with some pdf-files) and since it was weekend mtravellehr answered: i will ask on monday and tell you. Weeks have past since then, and mtravellerh didn't say a single word!! Since he didn't say anything i reminded him that he planned to tell me, but he still didn't answer, he treated me as air.

And so you still wonder, that some guys are mad on pb?????

I have written a lot of tousands of open-source c++ code, but you can be sure that I will never make giftes to pb (like donating source code), they dont deserv my help. And I will even not write bug reports anymore, they deserv nothing.

I like the hardware of PB903 but the software is poor. After the new sdk will be published, i will not complain to pb anymore, i will code myself all the programs that i need so that i can use my device in a productive way, and not just as a book, but also as a notepad, where i can write my lectures.

shame on you pocketbook.

02-25-2011, 02:15 PM	#312
cipri Banned Posts: 154 Karma: 70 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: PB 903	Could the people who insult JimStar introduce themself? As a hobby-developer (c++) i can confirm that JimStar is right. The PB 903 that i have has a lot of bugs and short-comings, and a lot of bugs could be solved in the time of some minutes, but PB seems to not care a lot about them. About 1 year ago, I wrote an pdf-viewer, and therefore I know that the pdf-viewer that PB made is of poor quality, it could be made a lot better, with annotations with margin-cuts with better zooming capabilities and and and ..... This is not at all a big work, but it seems pb needs month for solving minor bugs. Perhaps they are already bussy with making a new product, otherwise i can not explain, how they didnt improve the software which has even such stupid bugs, which makes me think if the people who wrote it also used to test what they coded. I asked PB if they can open-source the programm scribble, so that i can get familiar with the api, and making a "hand-writing application". I just got a message 2 month ago from "fork", and he was saying that the developers are working on a "hand-writing-application". Fact is, that nothing happened, even such a application based on scribble could be coded in a few days, even by an not talented developer. But nothing happened. Fork never again responded to questions realted to that application. I was curious on which pdf rendering library the pdfviewer is built up (because it has some serious problems with some pdf-files) and since it was weekend mtravellehr answered: i will ask on monday and tell you. Weeks have past since then, and mtravellerh didn't say a single word!! Since he didn't say anything i reminded him that he planned to tell me, but he still didn't answer, he treated me as air. And so you still wonder, that some guys are mad on pb????? I have written a lot of tousands of open-source c++ code, but you can be sure that I will never make giftes to pb (like donating source code), they dont deserv my help. And I will even not write bug reports anymore, they deserv nothing. I like the hardware of PB903 but the software is poor. After the new sdk will be published, i will not complain to pb anymore, i will code myself all the programs that i need so that i can use my device in a productive way, and not just as a book, but also as a notepad, where i can write my lectures. shame on you pocketbook. Last edited by cipri; 02-25-2011 at 02:59 PM.