Scripting on Touch HD - wrong orientation

[Skeeve]

Hi.
I wrote a small script to download my daily newspaper on my Touch HD3. In case something goes wrong or the newspaper already was loaded I want to display some information.

For this I use (e.g.)

dialog 2 Exists "Load newspaper of $( date -D %s -d $today +%d.%m.%Y) again?" YES NO OPEN

What's strange is: The dialog is displayed as if I rotated the HD to the left.

How could this happen? No matter how I hold the device, the dialog is alway that way.

[Skeeve]

Small update: If I do not use

#!/bin/sh

but

#!/ebrmain/bin/run_script -clear_screen -bitmap=s2pb_wizard_wifircp

the orientation is correct and a WIFI-Logo is diesplayed in the background.

I couldn't figure out how to display an image instead. Seems run_script can only display bitmaps defined in /ebrmain/themes/Line.pbt.

The WIFI-Logo is fine for me as it indicates that a WIFI connection is required.

BTW: Anyone any idea how to use input_dialog.app?

[nhedgehog]

1) First post: Orientation: Guess it is a bug.

2) input_dialog.app: from the hexcode I guess it is to input passphrases:

MainFrame::GetPassphrase()
Looks like: Parameter:
1) headertext
2) infotext
3) infoclicklinks
4) button1text
5) button2text
6) edithinttext
7) datafilepath
Its used to open an sq3 database in the legimiviewer.app.

[Skeeve]

Looking into the "strings" it seems to be also used in the eink-reader.app

I hoped for something like "dialog" in order to be able to ask for input from a script.

[nhedgehog]

Try a look into inkview.h. Though mine is from 2011.

[rkomar]

I'm not sure if it still works on the latest devices, but I wrote something for displaying dialogs within shell scripts. Here is the thread for that: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=163556

[Skeeve]

Originally Posted by nhedgehog

Try a look into inkview.h. Though mine is from 2011.

That's for programming in C, right?

As I never got my head around how to program in C for the Pocketbook, I doubt it's useful.

Originally Posted by rkomar

I'm not sure if it still works on the latest devices, but I wrote something for displaying dialogs within shell scripts.

Thanks! Will try it out and report over there.

[nhedgehog]

Yes but it gives you an idea, what the program is expecting from commandline:
void Dialog(int icon, const char *title, const char *text, const char *button1, const char *button2, iv_dialoghandler hproc);

[Skeeve]

Originally Posted by nhedgehog

Yes but it gives you an idea, what the program is expecting from commandline:
void Dialog(int icon, const char *title, const char *text, const char *button1, const char *button2, iv_dialoghandler hproc);

That's what dialog emits when yo call it without parameter.

dialog I already use. The icons are:
1: i
2: =
3: !
4: X
5: Wifi

title seems without effect.

text is the text displayed.

buttonN are the labels of the 1 to 3 buttons.

Exitcode ist the number of the button.

[ezdiy]

Workaround I'm using at the start of the script. The general issue is that the stack manager gets confused from the app list context, so we steal foreground of a place that has correct orientation for us to plaster the modal over.