[chaley]

I confess to a great deal of confusion.

Originally Posted by iatheia

Yes, when opening Moon+ from CC it does remember it's position. It just would be nice if CC would remember the last screen it had opened before the program is shut down, such as if the last thing I looked up were book details, it would have an option to remember to open up in the same book details, and if it had some sort of grouping applied before I accessed the book details, it would keep the same grouping once I back out of it. (I tend to stay with the same grouping for a while, but I have a large library and a lot of different groupings, so it is a bit annoying to always have find it).
Kind of like a web browser remembers which pages were opened and their history next time I start it even though I can stop it from running in the background.

CC already does exactly what you ask. If you are in CC's book details and go to a reader app or back to the desktop with the "Home" button, when you come back to CC you are in book details. CC remembers the grouping, sorting, and searching that were in effect when you left CC.

Are you exiting CC by using the "Back" button? If so, then CC remembers the last grouping/sorting etc in effect, essentially no grouping and no sorting because you backed out of them on the way out..

If you are not exiting using the back button, could you tell me exactly what you are doing?

Particularly, right now if I happen to leave a grouping on before I exit CC, and then restart it it says "no books match the search" so I need to first clear the null value and then reapply the grouping again to have it display properly. So it almost works, it just doesn't quite remember what it was supposed to search for.

Again, I don't see this.

The following screenshots show CC with a search and sort active.


When I go from CC to the desktop using the "Home" button then tap the CC icon, I see the second screen again.

Although I know of no case where grouping and sorting will get lost, there is one case where the search will get not be re-applied. If the device is severely memory challenged then the search results might be gone when CC restarts. Because search can be very slow, CC does not automatically redo the search. Instead it remembers what it was. You can tap the search line and redo it by hand. As the grouping and sorting values were remembered, what you see after redoing the search is very close to what was showing before tapping "Home".

I would also need to find a book again in CC if I want to look up some particulars that are in the book details but not in the book itself, or after I finish reading it to mark it as read, which is easy enough to do, but still takes some navigation. If it either remembered the screen it had before (or if it was possible to launch CC book details screen as well as a reading app from the widget) it would simplify the process.

If you launch the reader app from book details then when you restart CC you will be in book details. I know of no case where this is not true.

Given that you are seeing things that in theory cannot happen, something very strange is going on. It might help to send me a CC debug log as described in this FAQ answer. Please go through a sequence like start CC, search, group, go to book details, read book, then come back to CC and send the debug log. If I understand you correctly, CC will not be showing book details when you come back.

As for Moon+ not starting in the last book at the last position, this is controlled by a Moon+ option. In Moon+, open a book, tap the center to see the Moon+ controls, tap the 3-dot menu button, tap Miscellaneous, then choose the "Open last file at startup". You might also want to go to Control options and set the Back Key to "Close Moon+ Reader". If you do this and if you start Moon+ from CC then "Back" will take you from Moon+ to CC.