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mobad · 07-24-2011, 06:59 AM

http://pastebin.com/uWvGBM6X

I've made it detect whether a book is open so the menus should work. (So no need to disable when you aren't using it)
I went back to the key detection method as it works better and it much cleaner.

While playing around with the Kindle I also found something cool.
I remember hearing about some people being annoyed with the progress bar at the bottom of the screen so I made something that will blank it out when in a book (you wont get more book space unfortunately)

http://pastebin.com/0mksGGBu

It basically just prints whitespace over the progress bar and it will detect whether you are in a book or not so you shouldn't have to disable it.

You can use the "eips" to print text/image onto the screen:
eips X-Pos Y-Pos "blah"
X-Pos goes from 0-49 and Y-Pos 0-39

My open book detection is not very nice as it takes 0.05s, if anyone knows any better ways, please share

07-24-2011, 06:59 AM	#30
mobad Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 23 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Kindle 3 WiFi	http://pastebin.com/uWvGBM6X I've made it detect whether a book is open so the menus should work. (So no need to disable when you aren't using it) I went back to the key detection method as it works better and it much cleaner. While playing around with the Kindle I also found something cool. I remember hearing about some people being annoyed with the progress bar at the bottom of the screen so I made something that will blank it out when in a book (you wont get more book space unfortunately) http://pastebin.com/0mksGGBu It basically just prints whitespace over the progress bar and it will detect whether you are in a book or not so you shouldn't have to disable it. You can use the "eips" to print text/image onto the screen: eips X-Pos Y-Pos "blah" X-Pos goes from 0-49 and Y-Pos 0-39 My open book detection is not very nice as it takes 0.05s, if anyone knows any better ways, please share Last edited by mobad; 07-24-2011 at 07:40 AM.