iLiad Adam's (Untested) iLiad Apps

[Adam B.]

I've been playing with a few more programs in my development area, and here's what I've come up with. If you want me to post the binaries and libraries of these I can. But, since I have no iLiad to test with, there is no guarantee they will work or that they won't brick you iLiad.

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.

[Adam B.]

GQView - http://gqview.sourceforge.net/

GQview, an image browser that features single click access to view images and move around the directory tree.

[Adam B.]

eJourn - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chris129/code/ejourn/

eJourn is an application written for Linux/BSD/Unix/OS X (maybe Windows in a while) to help you manage a diary or journal. Actually, to help you manage several diaries and journals.

[henkvdg]

Originally Posted by Adam B.

eJourn - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chris129/code/ejourn/

You give us an appetite, Adam. I would like something like Abiword.

Hope you get a developers iLiad soon and your own unit unbricked.

For an editor it would be nice to have handwring recognition transparently over the document or in a small window, so that only a small part of the screen is covered by the recognition window, or by a small keyboard.


Other ideas (wishes): text-to-speech (like the opera-browser has). To listen to documents. And speech recognition ("go to page 79", "next page", "three down", "open that", "goto CF- card" ......

But probably the hardware is not up to that.

[Mambo]

What I would need for a text editor is a full-screen refresh if I press a specific button or click an Icon. I don't like ghosting but I also don't like the constantly flashing screen. I would like to control the process myself when do a partial refresh, when do a full refresh.
Also I would recommend a specific control (icon/ button / page bar) rather than just click somewhere on the screen and sometime it will refresh sometimes not. (pagebar would be great if it really works)

Otherwise Abiword looks interesting.

[emkay]

Nice looking stuff Adam.
I don't think I'll be using anything that needs a lot of keyboard input in a hurry.
What I would find useful would be an app. which could pull down my web-hosted iCal calendars and display them. And perhaps even let me write events to them.
I'm using thunderbird with lightning at the moment, with the calendars on a webdav server.
Hooking into Google calendar would be nice too.

EDIT: I'll copy this to the other WISHLIST thread

[kapoira]

i will like to probe in my iliad the image viewer, if you post the bin and the libs i will try to run it

[Adam B.]

xCHM - http://xchm.sourceforge.net/

xCHM is a cross-platform GUI front-end to chmlib, with borrowed bits from Pabs' chmdeco project.
Originally written for UNIX systems (Linux, *BSD, Solaris), xCHM has been since ported to Mac OS X and Windows.

xCHM can show the content tree if one is available, print pages, change font face and size, remember bookmarks, display a searchable index, and search for words in the current page and the whole book.

This is still untested on the iLiad, but this package should work without problems.

http://projects.mobileread.com/iliad.../xchm/xchm.zip

[Adam B.]

Originally Posted by kapoira

i will like to probe in my iliad the image viewer, if you post the bin and the libs i will try to run it

http://projects.mobileread.com/iliad...iew/gqview.zip

I seriously doubt it'll work without doing some modification to the root file system. I had to make changes on my virtual iLiad box for image libraries before it would launch.

[kapoira]

and your thought are correct directly, with the manifest that you have put don't work, if i go to a terminal and run the run.sh i obtain something similar to this

!!friendly warning the GQview was compiled with GTK+-2.8
running GTK+-2.6
GQview may quit unexcpectedly with a relocation error

(gqview:714:GdkPixbuf-WARNING **:error loading XPM image loader: Image type 'xpm' is not supported
Segmentation fault


Thanks to the fast reply of before ;-)

[Adam B.]

If you're feeling adventurous...

Copy the extracted files to: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/

Then run the following command:

/usr/bin/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders > /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders

[kapoira]

i will think the possibilities of a brick iliad, and if i feel that is easy to brick a iliad i will wait.

I think that you very fast will recibe a iliad with unbrick options ;-)

[Mambo]

I have tested xchm and it works very well.

There are still some minor problems with it which unfortunately make it very uncomfortable to use at the moment:

-- page bar does not work (it cause the led blinking though)
-- no full screen refresh, only partial refresh
-- file window is small (long file names are not visible)
-- sometimes the screen does not refresh at all
-- you can search only the actual page, not the whole document

Now if a developer could only make the page bar working & also cause it to refresh the screen completely, that would be great. I wish I could do it myself, but I am afraid it would take too long for me just to learn how to set up the developing environment...

[kapoira]

the size of the loaders inside of the iliad are more compacted it's normal....


i think that i will copy the originals, to a directory in the MMC

try your commands , and is anything goes wrong return the originals

[Adam B.]

Originally Posted by kapoira

the size of the loaders inside of the iliad are more compacted it's normal....


i think that i will copy the originals, to a directory in the MMC

try your commands , and is anything goes wrong return the originals

Sounds like the best way to do it. As I said, the file I uploaded was only tested in my development area...