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sv2000 · 09-21-2018, 02:39 AM

Hi NiLuJe,

Thanks for the reply. I must admit this might not be the most well thought out idea. The fmon launcher icon gets buried beneath other books I read in nickel and I don't think there's a way to pin it to the home screen. Minor inconvenience, but I'm just starting to tinker with my Kobo Glo HD, and this was the first thing which came to my mind.

Thanks for the link to your screen painting library.

Screen scraping sounds like a good idea. I could scrape the screen to check for the presence of the battery icon (indicating menu bar is visible), and draw an icon (and run the touch detection routine). Not sure how this will affect battery life though.

As far as compatibility goes, while I would love to share anything I come up with, with the community, I'm doing this for just some random tinkering in my free time, and would be happy if I can just manage to make it work on my Glo HD.

If nickel can be patched obviously thats the better and direct solution, something like replace the store link with the launcher. However patching nickel with custom functionality is above my pay grade (I'm primarily a HW/EE person with limited coding skills

). Scraping the screen definitely sounds like something with my reach, wonder if you have any suggestions to monitor the screen in a power efficient way?

09-21-2018, 02:39 AM	#4
sv2000 Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 17578 Join Date: Aug 2018 Device: Kobo Glo HD	Hi NiLuJe, Thanks for the reply. I must admit this might not be the most well thought out idea. The fmon launcher icon gets buried beneath other books I read in nickel and I don't think there's a way to pin it to the home screen. Minor inconvenience, but I'm just starting to tinker with my Kobo Glo HD, and this was the first thing which came to my mind. Thanks for the link to your screen painting library. Screen scraping sounds like a good idea. I could scrape the screen to check for the presence of the battery icon (indicating menu bar is visible), and draw an icon (and run the touch detection routine). Not sure how this will affect battery life though. As far as compatibility goes, while I would love to share anything I come up with, with the community, I'm doing this for just some random tinkering in my free time, and would be happy if I can just manage to make it work on my Glo HD. If nickel can be patched obviously thats the better and direct solution, something like replace the store link with the launcher. However patching nickel with custom functionality is above my pay grade (I'm primarily a HW/EE person with limited coding skills ). Scraping the screen definitely sounds like something with my reach, wonder if you have any suggestions to monitor the screen in a power efficient way?