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Originally Posted by jaha
Hi,
I am really looking forward to the version with automatic start of last opened document :-)
May I ask you if you know when you are able to provide an installation file with this functionality?
Thank you in advance :-)
Jarle
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Hi Jarle,
This is a good opertunity to give an update of my progress.
I) I plan to add the functionality in several stages, the first stage is to create short-cuts for all files that have been opened in a specific folder. This feature has three modes:
- disabled: do not create short-cuts
- enabled: store short-cut of all opened files in the 'Recent-folder'
- show: At startup, do not start with the Home-folder, but with the 'Recent-folder'
II) Once this is working, tested and published, I want to add a fourth mode to automatically start ... something... I am choosing between one or more of these:
-a- the last opened document (whether it was open during shut-down or not)
-b- the last opened document that was opened at the moment of shut-down
-c- all documents that were open at the moment of shut-down
-d- An application like mxCalendar
III) Once this is working, I will go crazy adding al kinds of addtions.
- Adding keywords to documents and a view to sort/select with these keywords
- Add an extra icon in the status-bar (right-side) to change the mode for Recent-Files and those mentioned in item III) above.
- Select multiple files to delete (or add keyword)
- Have an extra menu item to add short-cut of document a configurable folder e.g. in the 'Files to Read Queue'-folder.
- add more positions in the left part of the status-bar (for menu-items)
- allow other applications to add icons to right side of statusbar (I would want this for Xournal)
- etc
This should keep me going for 2010...
The status:
The code for the first stage is now under-test by 'my guinea-pigs' owl123 and pthwaite. They gave some very usefull feedback on problems and improvements (and they seem to be pleased with the patch). There is one problem for which I have to find a solution. For some reason when the ctb starts-up with the "Recent-Files"-folder the screen is not updated properly. The screen shows the folder and its content, but it is a little fuzzy, you also still see a fuzzy logo that you normally see during start-up. Due to different timing during startup, a proper refresh of the screen is not executed. This is very difficult (time consuming) to debug, since it only shows on the real device and not on the emulator.
I know that it very dangerous to give release dates on this forum
, but I hope that I will find enough time between Christmas and New Year to fix the refresh problem and post the stage I patch on this forum.
(If iRex still decides to create a new firmware update, then I have to wait for them to publish the code for new firmware and apply my patches again...)
PS: If you are very eager to use the update/patch, I could send you a version that has the refresh problem and add you to my 'guinea pig farm'. Send me a PM with your e-mail address.