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ericshliao · 03-13-2010, 03:55 AM

AFAK, if I can send correct command string to displayMgr, I guess GTK+ for DR800 can be applied to iLiad. Before it's done, normal applications won't be able to update the eink screen.

I saw your post about FBReader 0.10.7 for DR800, but I am not sure about the slowness that you mentioned about 0.12.x. Do you mean it's slow when flipping page for 0.12.x or it's slow when starting FBReader? If you mean the later case, maybe it's because 0.12.x will do some sqlite database conversion (or initialization). It only happens once. If you mean 0.12.x is slow when flipping page, then I have no clue about how this could happen. I am using FBReader 0.12.6 on my iLiad, with some preloading mechanism. I can get page-flip in 2 secs (at most 3 secs). IIRC, I got similiar speed of page-flips on 0.10.x and 0.12.x without the preloading code.

BTW, if not bothering, would you make some video of DR800 page-flips? I am curious about the speed of DR800, especially on FBReader. There is no such video available.

Added:
I forgot to mention one thing about the possible cause to slowness. On iLiad, I have to modify registry.xml to make FBReader registered to certain IPC channel, or it will be extreme slow to start FBReader. It's also the case for other applications.

03-13-2010, 03:55 AM	#6
ericshliao Guru Posts: 976 Karma: 687 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Dell X51v; iLiad v2	AFAK, if I can send correct command string to displayMgr, I guess GTK+ for DR800 can be applied to iLiad. Before it's done, normal applications won't be able to update the eink screen. I saw your post about FBReader 0.10.7 for DR800, but I am not sure about the slowness that you mentioned about 0.12.x. Do you mean it's slow when flipping page for 0.12.x or it's slow when starting FBReader? If you mean the later case, maybe it's because 0.12.x will do some sqlite database conversion (or initialization). It only happens once. If you mean 0.12.x is slow when flipping page, then I have no clue about how this could happen. I am using FBReader 0.12.6 on my iLiad, with some preloading mechanism. I can get page-flip in 2 secs (at most 3 secs). IIRC, I got similiar speed of page-flips on 0.10.x and 0.12.x without the preloading code. BTW, if not bothering, would you make some video of DR800 page-flips? I am curious about the speed of DR800, especially on FBReader. There is no such video available. Added: I forgot to mention one thing about the possible cause to slowness. On iLiad, I have to modify registry.xml to make FBReader registered to certain IPC channel, or it will be extreme slow to start FBReader. It's also the case for other applications. Last edited by ericshliao; 03-13-2010 at 04:02 AM.