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hawhill · 03-27-2012, 08:07 AM

I think jmseight is talking about something that does not rely on a terminal emulator, though. Note that scripts run by kite won't have a TTY they can read from. Rather, something like "xdialog" or similar would be needed.

I'm not aware of such a program for now. OTOH, it wouldn't be that hard to program. In fact, - shameless plug - kindlepdfreader's Lua code could easily be modified to work that way (it already has an implementation of an input box). However, that would be somewhat overkill, since PDF and DJVU libraries are included.

So for now, combining hostar's advice with running a terminal program (like myts) is probably the way to go.

03-27-2012, 08:07 AM	#3
hawhill Wizard Posts: 1,379 Karma: 2155307 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Goettingen, Germany Device: Kindle Paperwhite, Kobo Mini	I think jmseight is talking about something that does not rely on a terminal emulator, though. Note that scripts run by kite won't have a TTY they can read from. Rather, something like "xdialog" or similar would be needed. I'm not aware of such a program for now. OTOH, it wouldn't be that hard to program. In fact, - shameless plug - kindlepdfreader's Lua code could easily be modified to work that way (it already has an implementation of an input box). However, that would be somewhat overkill, since PDF and DJVU libraries are included. So for now, combining hostar's advice with running a terminal program (like myts) is probably the way to go.