Windows testers needed - Page 2

kovidgoyal · 11-10-2010, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JvdW

What specific things does QT 4.7 add to work with touchscreens?
I have a Mimo 740 touchscreen hanging of my HTPC (Win7) which also downloads some news in the morning and haven't had any problems navigating Calibre with it.

Just curious and going to try it.

Joop

I believe it adds support for gestures, also the touchscreen driver was completely disabled in the Qt 4.6 build of calibre as it caused hangs on some windows installs. I believe the underlying bug has been fixed in 4.7 so I re-enabled it. If 4.6 based calibre was working on your touchscreen device that would have been through the conversion of touchscreen to mouse events.

kovidgoyal · 11-10-2010, 10:14 AM

@Sweetpea: I also cannot reproduce this on either XP or 7. I did notice that once in a while a click would be ignored and I would have to move the mouse off the icon, bring it back and click again on XP.

kovidgoyal · 11-10-2010, 10:15 AM

@Perkin: That would be because of unrelated changes, I'll pass on the info to Starson17 who maintains the merge code.

kovidgoyal · 11-10-2010, 10:17 AM

@Manichean: I've uploaded the updated translations string to launchapd, you should see there there in an hour or so.

Sweetpea · 11-10-2010, 10:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@Sweetpea: I also cannot reproduce this on either XP or 7. I did notice that once in a while a click would be ignored and I would have to move the mouse off the icon, bring it back and click again on XP.

Never had that problem with previous versions (currently using .24). I actually de-installed it, installed .24 again. No problems at all.

I had to kill the entire process at one point, as the right mouse menu didn't show up anymore. And maximizing in the task manager didn't work either.

jbcohen · 11-10-2010, 10:56 AM

Calibre does not support my ereader, I have one of the odd ball readers, its an Aluratek Libra Pro.

kovidgoyal · 11-10-2010, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sweetpea

Never had that problem with previous versions (currently using .24). I actually de-installed it, installed .24 again. No problems at all.

I had to kill the entire process at one point, as the right mouse menu didn't show up anymore. And maximizing in the task manager didn't work either.

Hmm, can you run it from a command prompt with

calibre-debug -g

and see if anything useful gets printed out.

Sweetpea · 11-10-2010, 11:13 AM

It didn't print anything, if I simply clicked it (normal left mouse click) to open it again from the system tray.

But when I used right mouse click, I got an error message:

Quote:

Starting up...
Using proxies: {'ftp': 'someproxyserver', 'http': 'someproxyserver'}

Started up in 3.67199993134
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\update.py", line 34, in run
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.1.11-py2.6.egg\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line
209, in open
File "site-packages\mechanize-0.1.11-py2.6.egg\mechanize\_mechanize.py", line
261, in _mech_open
httperror_seek_wrapper: HTTP Error 504: Proxy Timeout ( Connection timed out. Fo
r more information about this event, see ISA Server Help. )

(oh, I'll have to terminate it again by way of the task manager...)

Edit:

Tried to repeat the process.... But now I again don't have the right mouse menu anymore, nor is there an error message...

kovidgoyal · 11-10-2010, 11:17 AM

that's just the update check failing. OK I'll update to the newly released Qt 4.7.1 and release another build. Hopefully, whatever the issue is has been fixed in 4.7.1

Manichean · 11-10-2010, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@Manichean: I've uploaded the updated translations string to launchapd, you should see there there in an hour or so.

And they're done. I checked there before to see if the translation had somehow changed and didn't see something. I guess I learned something today

Starson17 · 11-10-2010, 03:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Perkin

I just merged a few different entries and it did merge the records, but copied the title (and possibly other data) of the to be merged entry over the correct first selected entry.

Re installed normal 7.27 and done exactly same operations and it worked as it should, preserving the first selected entry's data.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@Perkin: That would be because of unrelated changes, I'll pass on the info to Starson17 who maintains the merge code.

I'm unable to find any merge code problems on WXP. I tested running from main trunk code, then an uninstall and reinstall the .msi file in Kovid's original post. Is anyone else seeing this? Any steps to reproduce it?

Thanks.

nynaevelan · 11-10-2010, 04:42 PM

I do not know which version of 0.7.27 started it but now when I select either convert individually or in bulk, Calibre no longer remembers the last output type, it keeps starting with epub. With 0.7.26 it does remember my previous output type.

acolsandra · 11-10-2010, 05:29 PM

I installed it on a windows xp sp3 dutch computer. Didn't notice anything quicker in starting calibre up and that was after I splitted my libraries this afternoon in "old" version 07.27. So it has to read less book on startup.

Opening ebookviewer is very very quick.

I cannot reproduce the problem of sweetpea, I can open it from the system tray with one click (left mouse button).

I can try it on my vista computer later this week, I will let you know my experiences then.

thanks for all your efforts kovid

kovidgoyal · 11-10-2010, 07:15 PM

@sweetpea: I've updated the msi to use Qt 4.7.1, see if that helps

SirBC · 11-10-2010, 09:45 PM

Some further testing on the speed of initially opening a book with different formats in the ebook viewer:

Lit: Still very slow (~10 seconds)
Epub: Very fast (< 0.5 seconds)
LRF: Very slow
Mobi: Very fast
PDB: Very fast
PRC: Very fast

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11-10-2010, 10:14 AM	#17
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@Sweetpea: I also cannot reproduce this on either XP or 7. I did notice that once in a while a click would be ignored and I would have to move the mouse off the icon, bring it back and click again on XP.

11-10-2010, 10:15 AM	#18
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@Perkin: That would be because of unrelated changes, I'll pass on the info to Starson17 who maintains the merge code.

11-10-2010, 10:17 AM	#19
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@Manichean: I've uploaded the updated translations string to launchapd, you should see there there in an hour or so.

11-10-2010, 10:56 AM	#21
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,033 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	Calibre does not support my ereader, I have one of the odd ball readers, its an Aluratek Libra Pro.

11-10-2010, 11:17 AM	#24
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	that's just the update check failing. OK I'll update to the newly released Qt 4.7.1 and release another build. Hopefully, whatever the issue is has been fixed in 4.7.1

11-10-2010, 04:42 PM	#27
nynaevelan eBook Junkie Posts: 1,526 Karma: 1464018 Join Date: May 2010 Location: USA Device: Kindle Fire 2020, Kindle PW2	I do not know which version of 0.7.27 started it but now when I select either convert individually or in bulk, Calibre no longer remembers the last output type, it keeps starting with epub. With 0.7.26 it does remember my previous output type.

11-10-2010, 05:29 PM	#28
acolsandra Enthusiast Posts: 37 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Netherlands Device: bebook1, pocketbook 302	I installed it on a windows xp sp3 dutch computer. Didn't notice anything quicker in starting calibre up and that was after I splitted my libraries this afternoon in "old" version 07.27. So it has to read less book on startup. Opening ebookviewer is very very quick. I cannot reproduce the problem of sweetpea, I can open it from the system tray with one click (left mouse button). I can try it on my vista computer later this week, I will let you know my experiences then. thanks for all your efforts kovid

11-10-2010, 07:15 PM	#29
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@sweetpea: I've updated the msi to use Qt 4.7.1, see if that helps

11-10-2010, 09:45 PM	#30
SirBC Connoisseur Posts: 56 Karma: 64 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: Kindle	Some further testing on the speed of initially opening a book with different formats in the ebook viewer: Lit: Still very slow (~10 seconds) Epub: Very fast (< 0.5 seconds) LRF: Very slow Mobi: Very fast PDB: Very fast PRC: Very fast