[dhdurgee]

Originally Posted by thebeginning

Surprised to see it's still going.

It actually could be done, when the solution is found for older fw versions I'll try to remember to make an update that will make working with individual files easier. I can't remember why exactly didn't I do this in the first place, but it could be just too much for KUAL and was dropped during testing.

Anyway, I've been thinking about adding an interface into overlay somehow, my best idea is to make it either a plugin for KOReader (if it's even possible, never used it), or to use LIPC and show the interface on an event. Or even make a separate app for audiobook listeners.

I've managed to track down useful events for those who might wish to try it before I have a chance. I've not been able to find an event that is triggered for the main menu, but the book overlay and the "crown" (which is status bar probably) is these two in com.lab126.winmgr:

titleBarVisiblityChange "invisible"
chromeVisiblityChange "chromeDown"

So one can subscribe to them like this:

lipc-wait-event -m com.lab126.winmgr titleBarVisiblityChange,chromeVisiblityChange

and track whether the overlay is open or not.

To find the actual menu event it would help to do:

lipc-probe -a
# get a lot of possible interfaces
# for each of them do
lipc-wait-event -m {interface} "*"
# lipc-wait-event -m com.lab126.winmgr "*"
# and try to open the menu

but it's a lot and obvious places didn't give me much.

I'm sure there are any number of people who would be interested in you enhancing your version further, but first the issue of getting Python working reliably on the HF firmware needs to be resolved. Once your current version will run on HF firmware then work on further improvements.

As you can see here I have been working to put a working HF version together of the original version, but I am hampered by the lack of a Kindle with HF firmware to test on. If you have one I would appreciate someone checking which of the audio support libraries I cribbed from Debian Jessie are working and which are not. The sox binaries and libraries appear fine, it is the audio support libraries that are in some cases problematic.

This appears to mostly be related to the fact that the HF firmware uses GLIBC 2.20 and thus the binaries and libraries cannot depend upon a later release.

Thanks for your work on version 2 and I look forward to seeing a newer release.

Dave