Thankyou for your comments. They come just in time, as I am about to 'freeze' development for the next (1.0) version and start building it for release.
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Originally Posted by emai7s2
- The 'Icon' view doesn't look nearly as good as your screenshots - all the images are rather scrunched together and hard to see, meaning that I have to use the 'Detail' view.
- The settings don't seem to stick. Even though I selected 'Detail' view, every time I launch Freda I get the distorted 'Icon' view.
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Actually I have replaced all this stuff in v1.0, so there are now separate 'bookshelf' (all the books you have opened) and 'library' (all the books you might in principle open) views. The 'bookshelf' view is always icons and the 'library' view is always details. As for making the images look decent on all devices, this is actually a bit of a challenge, given the wide range of different screen sizes, resolutions and aspect ratios that exist. I've done my best, but it won't look lovely on all devices, I fear.
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Originally Posted by emai7s2
- I would appreciate a 'Find again' function. Many of my documents are marked with 'NEXT SECTION', and I would like to be able to jump from section to section without having to enter 'next section' in the find field every time. Have a 'Find again' button on the screen would also be really nice ....
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If the text you searched for is still on screen (and high-lighted) you can just tap that text to get the 'find again' effect. I guess that won't work for your use-case, so what I think I will do is set it up so that rather than starting with a blank search string, it starts up the find-text dialog form with the search string set to the same string you searched for last time.
I'll implement that now ...
As for putting buttons on the screen, I deliberately decided against implementing a 'tool-bar' on the screen. That one's partly a matter of personal taste (I personally think that a UI should be based on the standard features supported by the operating system, not on a strip of funny little pictures that look different, and do different things, in every application) and partly a question of what's easy to develop (because the operating system support for icon-strip toolbars is weak, it's a real pain to develop them, particularly if you have a diverse set of different screen sizes and shapes to cater for).
But the great thing about Open Source software is that if someone thinks I am wrong, they are free to take my source code and adapt it to build a program that works the way they want it to!
Cheers,
Jim