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Originally Posted by silkshadow
If you have the desire at all, I might request a more natural way to refresh (add new books and remove deleted ones) the library. Just a wish  . |
And not an unreasonable wish either. The obvious answer is to put '[x]' delete icons on each book, or to have a drag-to-dustbin function on the library screen. There are two reasons why I've not done this at this stage:
1) The WindowsForms UI framework does not make that sort of thing easy;
2) It would be incompatible with non-touch screens. And I'm trying keep the main part of the Freda code-base the same, across the 'touch' and 'non-touch' builds.
The Windows Phone 7 version of Freda will certainly have a more intuitive UI for library and bookshelf management, because:
1) Silverlight makes this easy to do;
2) There is no 'non-touch' version of WP7.
I don't yet know whether I will back-port that UI into the Windows Mobile 6.x (or earlier) version. To an extent, it will depend on whether WM6.x remains a 'live' platform, after WP7 devices hit the street.
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Originally Posted by silkshadow
One future feature question (maybe Freda v5.0), would you ever consider adding the ability to correct/edit books and save the changes back into the ePub?
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It seems unlikely. The 'phone' form factor is not great for word-processing, even simple word-processing ... and ePub-editing is really a pretty complex kind of word-processing.