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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
Impressions: The deeper the menus get, the more I'd like to see the ability to assign keys to menu functions. Since I use Rhodium Keyboard controller, I don't really care what key is assigned since once one is assigned, I can mess with it using that, but a button assignment option like WinMo Media Player has for various functions could be cool tool.
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It's doable but fiddly, which is why it's not implemented yet
The shortcuts screen in v1.1 might help here (particularly if you assign the short-tap action to bring up that screen).
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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
Distant Future (We're talking flying cars future) Dreams: I love reading on my smartphone, and it may forever be my main reading device. But once Pixel Qi or tech similar to it hits the right tablet, I'll want to do a little reading on both, and I'll want my tablet to know where I left off on my smartphone and vice versa.
This might shouldn't concern you at all, since I imagine my ideal tablet might have Windows 7.
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The info about what books you are reading and what page you've reached just lives in Freda's 'bookmarks' file, so synching that across multiple devices isn't, in principle, too much of a challenge. In practice, there would no doubt be complications.
As for porting Freda to Windows 7, this would actually be pretty simple. I only haven't done it because there hasn't been much point up to now.
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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
Bug: I haven't upgraded to the version you sent out on 2/07, but in the version from January 25th, switching to the Night preset leaves me unable to bring up the menu at all, which means I can't change the preset or exit the application. When trying to repeat the issue, I switched to windowed mode, it returned to full screen upon choosing the preset (not sure if that part is by design or not). The only way I could get out was to launch another application (care of Rhodium KB controller hotkeys) where I could access the start menu, settings and shut it down in task manager. Fortunately when Freda reopened it didn't automatically reopen the last book (is that part of a safety feature? I have it set to reopen the last book I read, and it does normally. If so, it's genius.), so I could change my preset back before opening a book, and the menu worked again.
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Yes the behaviour "if something goes wrong while loading a book, disable the 'reopen last book' option" is an intentional safety feature.
As for your problem with loading the presets, that's a bit of a mystery - since the program main menu should always be reachable by one of:
- the enter key (or the centre of the D-Pad)
- a long-tap (more that 0.5 secs) on the middle of the screen
So I guess something broke. If it happens repeatably, could you send me:
- the log file: \program files\freda\logfile.txt
- the night presets file you're using: \program files\freda\presets\night.fst
As you surmise, the 'full/windowed' screen option is one of the things that gets changed when you switch presets.
Thanks for using Freda,
Jim