PRS+: Enhanced firmware for Sony Reader, Folders, Games & more

[badspell68]

If I upgrade to PRS+ will my reader still work wit h the sony software and use sony PRS software updates?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by badspell68

If I upgrade to PRS+ will my reader still work wit h the sony software and use sony PRS software updates?

Yes, it will still work with Reader Library no problem.

[jeromedevine]

Dear Kartu,

Please add the decimal point with the Percentage Progress to PRS+

to be for example 1083 / 1221 (88.7%) instead of 88%. It gives a clearer picture where you are in the book.

You only have to change the 0 into 1 as in the included picture.


Please PLeese PLLEASSSEEE make this addition to your amazing software. Thanks a lot! ;D

[kartu]

jeromedevine
I will, no worries.

[elcreative]

kartu, just a general query... how goes state of play on port to 600? I like it so much on my 505 that I'm really looking forward to same functionality on 600.

[kartu]

Originally Posted by elcreative

kartu, just a general query... how goes state of play on port to 600? I like it so much on my 505 that I'm really looking forward to same functionality on 600.

Packaging / icons / "open via mount" are still to be implemented. It's not a big deal but I have yet to find time to work on it.

Two words on what to expect:

Unfortunately games won't work. I didn't test Mark Nords calculator, I recall him saying that it supports touch interface.

On the bright side, I've implemented opening books directly from SD cards in "disabled scanning" mode. (but not "via mount". This feature will also work on 505's)

[Mark Nord]

I just implemented a very basic Standby Picture for my PRS505

Suspend via the power-switch is handled in ebook.so which needs to be patched here:

patched ebook.so PRS505 1.4.00.23260
.text:0000B988 ; =============== S U B R O U T I N E ==========================
.text:0000B988                 EXPORT PowerStandby
.text:0000B988 PowerStandby                            ; CODE XREF: SubcpuThreadProcessCommand+228
.text:0000B988

.text:0000BA58 loc_BA58                                ; CODE XREF: PowerStandby+98
.text:0000BA58                 BL      _sync
.text:0000BA5C                 LDR     R3, =0x41C
.text:0000BA60                 LDR     R0, [R10,R3]    ; char *
.text:0000BA64                 BL      _system
.text:0000BA68                 BL      ebookEinkThreadSuspend
.text:0000BA6C             BL      ebookEinkErase  ; NOP this new code: 00 00 A0 E1
.text:0000BA70                 LDR     R0, [R4]
.text:0000BA74                 MOV     R1, #1
.text:0000BA78                 BL      sub_B39C
.text:0000BA7C                 LDRB    R3, [R4,#0xAD]
.text:0000BA80                 CMP     R3, #0
.text:0000BA84                 BNE     loc_BCD0

So the screen isn't any longer erased during suspend.

Then I added this to main.xml to show up the StandbyPicture;

		<texture href="/Data/kBookStandbyPic.png">
			<cutout id="defaultStandbyPic-a" x="0" y="0" width="600" height="800"/>
		</texture>	
		<skin id="defaultStandbyPic" 
				cutouts="defaultStandbyPic-a"/>	

		<function id="doResume">
			this.STANDBY_IMAGE.show(false);
			this.STANDBY_IMAGE.enable(false);
			this.STATUS_GROUP.show(true);
			this.getDevice().doneResume();
			this.getModel().resume();
			if (this.modal) {
				...
			}
		</function>
		<function id="doSuspend">
			this.STATUS_GROUP.show(false);
			this.STANDBY_IMAGE.show(true);
			this.STANDBY_IMAGE.enable(true);
			this.getModel().suspend();
			this.getDevice().doneSuspend();
		</function>

	<group id="STANDBY_IMAGE" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0" active="false" visible="false">
		<background skin="defaultStandbyPic" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0"/>
		<!--standbyImage left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0"/-->
	</group>

I'm sure the picture selection and integration could be done much more elegant, but take this as proof of concept.

I finished on this just one hour ago, so I can't tell about possible side-effects, or a fading of the picture.

Obviously I can't show a screenshoot, too

[Mark Nord]

Originally Posted by kartu

Unfortunately games won't work. I didn't test Mark Nords calculator, I recall him saying that it supports touch interface.

Is this because the games can't be added to the application-menu/group, or because they have no touch-UI?

For the latter, and assuming that my Calc will work on a 600, at least sudoku should be easily upgraded with a nummeric-keyboard, based on the doCommand (if I recall correctly) property of sprits.
Same applies to mahjong and should go for fiveballs, but for those two the gamecontrol is not so obvious.

[kartu]

Great job (as usual ) Mark!

I think many users would like this feature.
Could you do similar ebook.so patches for 300 / 600 please?

As far as image loading goes, I'd probably do it "on the fly" in script (shouldn't be hard in 2.x.x ) to avoid file corruption problems. (I also don't remember what happens if file referenced by XML is missing)

Is this because the games can't be added to the application-menu/group, or because they have no touch-UI?

Only the latter.

For the latter, and assuming that my Calc will work on a 600, at least sudoku should be easily upgraded with a nummeric-keyboard, based on the doCommand (if I recall correctly) property of sprits.

Thanks for the info.

Same applies to mahjong and should go for fiveballs, but for those two the gamecontrol is not so obvious.

Ironically those two should actually work better with touch UI.

[Mark Nord]

Could you do similar ebook.so patches for 300 / 600 please?

I already checked with 300/600 code. Both have "PowerStandby" implemented the same way.
I can easily upload patched version - atop of "hold" enabled I assume, or atop of "hold" and "rotate"?
But you can also overwrite the four (4) bytes on your own. HTE you mentiond will do a good job on it.

(I also don't remember what happens if file referenced by XML is missing)

The device hangs on boot
As I tried first to append "kBookStandbyPic.png" via "prsp.sh" and "mount" to "application\resources\scripts" but failed on doing it right, thus let me move to \Data\ for a quick result. Thats also why I'm using the <background> Tag and not bother to load a actuall image (kbookImage).

I finished on this just one hour ago, so I can't tell about possible side-effects, or a fading of the picture.

Update some 10 hours later: The images isn't fading, no impact to the battery level so far.

[kartu]

I'll give it a try with HTE then.

[kartu]

Mark, I've tried to modify 600's ebook.so using hte, but it doesn't seem to work. Original and modified files are here.

I didn't try to draw anything onTerminate, since suspend via power switch still clears the screen.

[Mark Nord]

Weird thing!
According applicationStart.xml the PRS600 already use

		<function id="doPowerSwitchHold">
				var value = this.getVariable("STANDBY_STATE")
				if (value == 1) {
					this.setVariable("STANDBY_STATE", 2)
					this.post("kShutdownBySwitch", true)
				}
			</function>
			<function id="doPowerSwitch">
				if (!ebook.pm.isWaiting()) {
					var value = this.getVariable("STANDBY_STATE")
					if (value == 1) {
						this.setVariable("STANDBY_STATE", 0)
						this.resetLight()
						this.container.STANDBY_IMAGE.show(true)
						this.container.STANDBY_IMAGE.enable(true)
						this.setFlushUpdate()
						this.post("kSuspend", true)
					}
					else if (value == 0){
						this.setVariable("STANDBY_STATE", 1)
						this.container.STANDBY_IMAGE.show(false)
						this.container.STANDBY_IMAGE.enable(false)
						this.setFlushUpdate()
						this.post("kResume", true)
					}
					else
						this.setVariable("STANDBY_STATE", 1)
					BookUtil.removeButtonEvent(this.container.getWindow(), "kPowerSwitch")
				}
			</function>
..
<customHold key="kPowerSwitch" hold="doPowerSwitchHold" up="doPowerSwitch" holdTime="3000"/>
..
        <standbyImage id="STANDBY_IMAGE" left="0" right="0" top="0" bottom="0" active="false" visible="false"/>
</document>

So the PowerStandby code included in ebook.so will never be called, because a key-action is triggered instead!
[Edit] At last it seams "ebook.so" is to some extend, or even completly replaced by "ebookSystem.so" [/Edit]

Compared the 600th code to the PRS350/650 some functions in main.xml are missing!

	<!-- [FY10] Ticket#661: setup standby picture -->
			<function id="preDoEditStandbyPicture">
				var indexs = this.MENU.detailsView.getSelectedIndexs();
				this.bubble("doEditStandbyPicture", indexs);
			</function>

So I assume hacking in the 650-main functions in the 600 main.xml will enable the standby-pic.

[kartu]

Very funny, 600 already has the code for standby images.

PS
Update: yep, works like a charm. You can use this code (mostly shamelessly copy pasted from 350) to draw centered image, just replace this.x .y .width .height .color with 0 0 600 800 Color.black:

Spoiler:

	var window, path, bitmap, temp, port, x, y, bounds, ratio, width, height, ditheredBitmap, color;
	window = this.root.window;
	path = "/Data/logo.png";
	if (FileSystem.getFileInfo(path)) {
		try {
			bitmap = new Bitmap(path);
			temp = new Bitmap(this.width, this.height, 12);
			port = new Port(temp);
			port.setPenColor(Color.black);
			port.fillRectangle(0, 0, this.width, this.height);
			x = 0;
			y = 0;
			bounds = bitmap.getBounds();
			ratio = (bounds.height > bounds.width)?this.height / bounds.height:this.width / bounds.width;
			width = Math.floor(bounds.width * ratio);
			height = Math.floor(bounds.height * ratio);
			if (height > width) {
				x = Math.floor(this.width - width) / 2;
			} else {
				y = Math.floor(this.height - height) / 2;
			}
			bitmap.draw(port, x, y, width, height);
			bitmap.close();
			ditheredBitmap = temp.dither(true);
			port.close();
			temp.close();
			window.drawBitmap(ditheredBitmap, this.x, this.y, this.width, this.height);
			ditheredBitmap.close();
		} catch (ignore) {
		}
	} else {
		color = window.getPenColor();
		window.setPenColor(this.color);
		window.fillRectangle(0, 0, 600, 800);
		window.setPenColor(color);
	}

[jeromedevine]

Hi, thanks Kartu and all the contributing developers for your hard work!

I am seeing the mention about the standby image feature. I am attaching the below image from wikimedia of the Gutenberg Press. I am suggesting that once implemented in this Enhanced Firmware, this image could be used as the default image to show for the screensaver, which the user could change at will if he wishes.

Thanks for your consideration, and keep up the good work!

^_^