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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Firstly, you left zero left margin and no way to adjust this. It was less irritating after reversing the screen (white letters on black background) because the black background blends in with the bezel but that was only because it was dark around me. During the day I find this very uncomfortable.
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I'm working to increase the number of customisable settings, and margin will be one of them. It will also pick up margin settings from your book's CSS file. So hopefully the release version (1.0) in a couple of weeks, will suit you better. I am always going to want the option of fixing the margin at zero, since there are users out there (and I personally am one of them) who want to get the maximum use out of their limited screen space.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Secondly, when I kept the font size at 8 the screen backlighting dimmed before I got to turn the page (I like to set this to a very short interval to prolong battery life and it is not practical to reset this just for reading).
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Why not? There are tools out there that let you automatically customise device settings depending on which app is running at the moment.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
The problem is that every time you touch the screen so that backlighting comes back on to full strength your settings menu appears.
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That's an Operating System setting - I don't want to get into overriding system settings , for various reasons, including: (1) it could mean a need for Freda to be trusted/signed - which costs, and would make the open source model hard to apply (2) system settings work differently on every device, and what is fine on one device could create nasty snarl-ups on other devices (3) I think the behaviour "when the user touches the screen, the backlight comes up to its 'undimmed' level" is what users would expect, and it's what WinMo does automatically; to do something different will just confuse people.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Perhaps you can have a menu button in a corner somewhere or set either left or right swipe (they have no function now) to bring up the menu?
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I guess I am being dim, but I don't see how it would help - these actions would still count as 'user interaction', and would still cause the backlight to un-dim.
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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Finally, page turns are very slow (I am using the Touch Pro2, in the Mobipocket reader pages turn instantly and generally I have no lag using the device) and scrolling up from the bottom is counter intuitive (it seems every other program's page turns work right to left).
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If the animation annoys you, turn it off using the program's settings. For version 1.0 I plan to give you the choice - a vertical swipe will produce a scrolling animation, a horizontal swipe will produce a page-turning animation. Of course, this is all just eye-candy really! But I think there is benefit in giving a visual cue that a new page is coming up. One tip: the animation does require quite a lot of memory, and it will run faster if you have fewer other programs active. I could possibly make the animation faster, at the cost of making it more jerky - or add yet another customisable setting to control animation speed ... but this might be over-kill.
Thanks for trying the program, and thankyou for your feedback.
Jim