FBReader 0.10.7 for DR800

[dima_tr]

Thank you for the fix! IMHO, 2) should close the current document and open the pointed one. This is what a user explicitly said by clicking into a new document. A good thing is FBReader remembers the page for each document, so coming back should be easy.

[pgrillo]

Originally Posted by javifields

Hola Iñigo, en las instrucciones de instalación de FBReader-0.10.7-dr-v4 dices que debería quedar esto:

SD card
/Programs
_base (directory)
_config (directory)
_fbreader (directory)
FBReader.desktop (file)

pero yo no veo el directorio _config por ningún lado (no está en el fichero FBReader-0.10.7-dr-v4.tar.gz)

qué hago mal?

gracias!!!

Hola Iñigo y Javifields,

soy totalmente novato (tengo el aparato desde ayer por la tarde) y me ocurre exactamente igual que a Javi ¿?

Además, también descomprimí en el directorio raíz el fichero _base de "base-dr-v2.tar.gz"... nada ocurre... no sé cómo hay que hacer para ejecutar el programa (aparentemente desde el menú del libro no hay ninguna opción para acceder al directorio raíz, ni tampoco para ejecutar ficheros ¿?) Supongo que estoy muy despistado, pero empiezo a creer que sin un empujoncito no voy a pasar de este punto. ¿alguna pista de qué hago mal, o de qué me falta? (lo único que he hecho hasta ahora es descomprimir los dos ficheros en el raíz de la tarjeta SD).

Por cierto, estoy un poco sorprendido con la ausencia de algunas funciones que el manual dice que el DR800S tiene (en el menu del manual aparece la opción de buscar la definicón de una palabra; que yo interpreto como la existencia de un diccionario) pero que en mi aparato no aparecen. Además, en la página de Irex se indicaba (o así lo entiendí yo) la posibilidad de anotar con el stylus... pero tampoco veo como ¿?.

Un saludo y muchas gracias por mantener este foro. Que me parece que me va a resultar de gran utilidad

Marcos

[Iñigo]

Hello there,

first of all, excuse me for the silence last weeks, I've been quite busy at work and some life stuff...

Originally Posted by dima_tr

Hi, Iñigo,

I was very happy with your FBReader v4 for software 1.0, but since I upgraded to 2.0 RC2 I had to roll back to FBReader v2. Everything works fine, except one little thing: on the app start there appears "Please Wait ..." popup and the DR800 indicator blinks green. This goes for 30 seconds (counted ) and then the popup is gone and the blinking stops. There was no such behavior in v4.
[...]
Dima

Can you confirm this with RC3?
I can't see it (i.e., message is immediately hidden) on my DR800 RC3. The only difference I can think of is that I'm using DR1000 ctb compiled for DR800.

Iñigo

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by Loo

Hi Iñigo,
You know, in russian forums people try to figure out why hyphenation doesn't work for russian books, although it works fine for english ones. You put hyphenationPatterns.zip into _fbreader\share\zlibrary folder so I assume you tried to make it work. Could you please advise what could be an issue?
Just in case here are links to some text in russian:
http://fictionbook.ru/author/chehov_...wnload.fb2.zip
http://fictionbook.ru/author/chehov_.../download.epub

Thanks,
Loo

Hello Loo,

I don't know much about FBReader internals, I only compiled it.
I've tried the files you've attached on DR800 FBReader (version 0.10.7) and on my desktop computer (version 0.12.10 on Fedora 13 Linux). Though I can't understand Russian it looks like v0.12.10 is doing ok, so I think it's a problem with the version.

I simple way to try to fix is to copy the "languagePatterns.zip" file from v0.12.10 package to the DR => /media/mmcblk0p1/Programs/_fbreader/share/zlibrary
Perhaps "languagePatterns.zip" is needed as well.

Sorry, but can't think on any other reason. I've read FBReader release notes and couldn't find anything related.

Tell us if that fixes your issues.

Best regards,
Iñigo

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by javifields

Hola Iñigo, en las instrucciones de instalación de FBReader-0.10.7-dr-v4 dices que debería quedar esto:

SD card
/Programs
_base (directory)
_config (directory)
_fbreader (directory)
FBReader.desktop (file)

pero yo no veo el directorio _config por ningún lado (no está en el fichero FBReader-0.10.7-dr-v4.tar.gz)

qué hago mal?

gracias!!!

[Spanish]
Nada, todo es correcto. El directorio "_config" es el equivalente al HOME donde ciertos programas (p.e. todos los que he portado yo: FBReader, Osmo...) van a guardar sus configuraciones (la razón de haberlo modificado es para de este modo poder modificar o hacer copias de seguridad de las configuraciones de estos programas sin tener que tocar la flash interna del DR).
En definitiva, el directorio se creará cuando ejecutes los programas. No te preocupes.


[English]
Q: I've installed FBReader but can't find that "_config" directory. Am I doing something wrong?

No, it's ok.
That directory is used to store the configurations of some programs (FBReader, Osmo...) so it won't exist until you run the programs the first time.


Iñigo

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by pgrillo

Hola Iñigo y Javifields,

soy totalmente novato (tengo el aparato desde ayer por la tarde) y me ocurre exactamente igual que a Javi ¿?

Además, también descomprimí en el directorio raíz el fichero _base de "base-dr-v2.tar.gz"... nada ocurre... no sé cómo hay que hacer para ejecutar el programa (aparentemente desde el menú del libro no hay ninguna opción para acceder al directorio raíz, ni tampoco para ejecutar ficheros ¿?) Supongo que estoy muy despistado, pero empiezo a creer que sin un empujoncito no voy a pasar de este punto. ¿alguna pista de qué hago mal, o de qué me falta? (lo único que he hecho hasta ahora es descomprimir los dos ficheros en el raíz de la tarjeta SD).

Por cierto, estoy un poco sorprendido con la ausencia de algunas funciones que el manual dice que el DR800S tiene (en el menu del manual aparece la opción de buscar la definicón de una palabra; que yo interpreto como la existencia de un diccionario) pero que en mi aparato no aparecen. Además, en la página de Irex se indicaba (o así lo entiendí yo) la posibilidad de anotar con el stylus... pero tampoco veo como ¿?.

Un saludo y muchas gracias por mantener este foro. Que me parece que me va a resultar de gran utilidad

Marcos

[Only Spanish, sorry. Basic questions]

1. directorio "_config" no aparece.
No te preocupes, es correcto. Arriba en otra respuesta tienes la explicación.

2. ejecución de programas.
Supongo que a estas alturas ya lo habrás descubierto, pero por si acaso te explico.
Desde le versión 2 tienes dentro de las configuraciones avanzadas una opción para habilitar la navegación por directorios (en inglés es "Folder based navigation"), necesitas tenerla marcada.
Gracias a ello, podrás ver un icono "SD Card" en el Home. A partir de ella podrás acceder a los contenidos de la tarjeta SD como si estuviera montada en tu ordenador, con su jerarquía de directorios y demás.
Dentro de ella verás un directorio "Programs", allí es donde estamos instalando los programas que vamos portando y/o creando para el dispositivo. Recuerda que para poder llegar aquí has tenido que habilitar la opción arriba mencionada, en caso contrario no lo verás.
El paquete "base..." contiene código común para diversos progranas, pero no hace nada por sí mismo.

3. Por cierto, estoy un poco sorprendido con la ausencia de algunas funciones que el manual dice que el DR800S tiene (en el menu del manual aparece la opción de buscar la definicón de una palabra; que yo interpreto como la existencia de un diccionario) pero que en mi aparato no aparecen.
Realmente la opción ésta lo que hace es buscar dicha palabra dentro del documento.


4. "Además, en la página de Irex se indicaba (o así lo entiendí yo) la posibilidad de anotar con el stylus... pero tampoco veo como ¿?."
Ídem que punto 1.


Espero que te haya servido de ayuda. Definitivamente el DR800 es lo mejor que ha parido madre ;-)

Iñigo

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by Mackx

The DR1000 has an extra TaskBar, that allows easy switching between applications. The port of Iñigo sofar did not include the code to add FBReader to the taskbar. I posted a version some months ago and this is an update of that. I also post the changed code, so maybe Iñigo can merge both changes together? (@Iñigo: I noticed I found some different solutions for the same problems, I did not take your changes, but used my solution.) This version should fix the problem that FBReader was not always added to the TaskBar (for the DR1000).

If you have already installed an earlier version of FBReader then you might not want to overwrite the .FBReader folder. Note that the .FBReader folder is now located in Programs\_config, in my earlier ports it was in Programs\, so if you want your old settings make a copy of the folder.

To install unzip the FBReader file to your SD-card. You also need three files from the base package of Iñigo (fribidi, liblinebreak and libbz2), these should go in their normal location (Programs\_base\lib).

You can now restore your saved settings (if any). Put your .FBReader folder in Programs\_config\ overwiting the one of the zip-file.

This port is specific for the DR1000, since I can not test it on the DR800, it should run on the DR800 without problems. However, the width of the DR1000 is wider, I saw that Iñigo made a patch to Programs\_fbreader\share\FBReader\default\toolbar. xml, I added his version also to this post. So DR800 users that really want to use this port, should replace that file. Note that this port should be functionally equal to the port of Iñigo, so there would be no reason for DR800 owners to use this version.

The difference in size of the FBReader image can be explained by the way I build the FBReader specific libraries (static i.s.o. dynamic).

(Note that this version still has the same problems as all the previous ports.)

As always any comments are welcome.

Hi there,

@Iñigo: I noticed I found some different solutions for the same problems, I did not take your changes, but used my solution

Which problems and solutions?

The difference in size of the FBReader image can be explained by the way I build the FBReader specific libraries (static i.s.o. dynamic).

I prefer dynamically linking, but that's my own preference


All in all I think we should unify the DR800 and DR1000 ports in an unique package to avoid confusing people (and also to have only one code to hack in).

Currently, which are the differences between those? I know about:
1. taskbar code for DR1000
2. different toolbar.xml
... any more?

I suppose we could make 1. executed or not at runtime looking for some special feature of the device to differentiate between models.
And for 2. we could install one file for DR1000 and another for DR800.


I dont' have much free time these days and I'll go on holidays next week with not much internet access, but maybe we could work on this this week.

Iñigo

PS: nowdays I use DR1000 ctb compiled for DR800 so I appreciate the taskbar.
Anyway I read docs fullscreen.

[pgrillo]

Muchísimas gracias Iñigo,

no había actualizado el firmware... ahora el cacharo es otro!! Ya me funciona todo. Muchísimas gracias... Me voy a cacharear un poco.

Gracias otra vez. Un saludo,

Marcos

[Mackx]

Originally Posted by Iñigo

Hi there,

@Iñigo: I noticed I found some different solutions for the same problems, I did not take your changes, but used my solution

Which problems and solutions?

(Ehhh, that was already some time ago) One of the things is configuring the _config folder, you did it in the source code and I did it with a define in a Makefile. I though there was another slight different solution for a simular 'problem'.

Originally Posted by Iñigo

All in all I think we should unify the DR800 and DR1000 ports in an unique package to avoid confusing people (and also to have only one code to hack in).

That is why I included the changed files (4 make/configure files, 1 changed source file and two new source files). Now we need to find a volunteer

Originally Posted by Iñigo

Currently, which are the differences between those? I know about:
1. taskbar code for DR1000
2. different toolbar.xml
... any more?

I suppose we could make 1. executed or not at runtime looking for some special feature of the device to differentiate between models.
And for 2. we could install one file for DR1000 and another for DR800.

For 1. I think it will not harm to run the code also for DR800, the standard iRex applications also do this (like uds and settings). The firmware (popupmenu) will react differently for the DR800 or the DR1000 version of the firmware. The ipc-code could be a starting point to determine what should happen if a 2nd-file is clicked when there is already a file opened in FBReader, open a new instance of FBReader, or close the current document and start the new document, reusing the existing FBReader instance.
For 2. Maybe it is possible to make a version that fits on the DR800 screen and still contains enough commands the DR1000?

[Loo]

Hello,
Just changed encoding of ru.pattern in K:\Programs\_fbreader\share\zlibrary\hyphenationPa tterns.zip from KOI8-R into UTF-8 and the issue with hyphenation in russian seem resolved. If here are other russian guys, please test and confirm.

Iñigo, thanks for a hint.

Regards,

[Iñigo]

Originally Posted by Loo

Hello,
Just changed encoding of ru.pattern in K:\Programs\_fbreader\share\zlibrary\hyphenationPa tterns.zip from KOI8-R into UTF-8 and the issue with hyphenation in russian seem resolved. If here are other russian guys, please test and confirm.

Iñigo, thanks for a hint.

Regards,

Ok. I'm glad it works for you now.
If anybody else can confirm I'll make a new release.

[Astrowalk]

I would like to confirm that Russian hyphenations're OK with Loo's patch. Great fix, thanks a lot!

[Iñigo]

Find a new release in first message.

Changes:
v5 - 2010/09/06 00:57
. updated share/zlibrary/hyphenationPatterns.zip. This should fix the Russian hyphenation problems. Thanks to Loo
. associate .prc and .mobi file extensions with FBReader
. toolbar slightly modified to fit better with DR800+
. move add/remove extensions shortcuts to Install folder

[catharsis]

If exit FBReader (either by quitting or connecting the device to the computer) the changes I make in the settings are not remembered. Any idea why?

[catharsis]

OK, if someone is interested, there were errors in the file system and the config file was damaged. A disk scan fixed the problem.