Instructions for patching firmware 4.2.8110

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by mimbel

the patch working only on epubs not on kepub for kobo glo

Okay, that is possible. Unfortunately I don't have a solution in that case.

Edit: I've added a note of this problem to post #2 of this thread.

[mimbel]

I changed the values for margin footer to 30 and 26 PX but problem still with kpubs ebooks
Thank you very match GeoffR and sorry for may English

Envoyé de mon ONE A2005

[GeoffR]

I think the solution for the KePub footer might involve reducing the height of the bottom menus, in a similar way to jackie_w's patch for the KePub header reduces the top menus.

I haven't time to experiment with it at the moment, but this compressed CSS in nickel might be what needs changing:

QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsTrilogy="true"] {
  min-height: 70px;
  max-height: 70px;
}
QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsPhoenix="true"] {
  min-height: 82px;
  max-height: 82px;
}
QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsDragon="true"] {
  min-height: 120px;
  max-height: 120px;
}
QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsDaylight="true"] {
  min-height: 156px;
  max-height: 156px;
}

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

I think the solution for the KePub footer might involve reducing the height of the bottom menus, in a similar way to jackie_w's patch for the KePub header reduces the top menus.

I haven't time to experiment with it at the moment, but this compressed CSS in nickel might be what needs changing:

QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsTrilogy="true"] {
  min-height: 70px;
  max-height: 70px;
}
QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsPhoenix="true"] {
  min-height: 82px;
  max-height: 82px;
}
QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsDragon="true"] {
  min-height: 120px;
  max-height: 120px;
}
QWidget[footerFixedHeight="true"][qApp_deviceIsDaylight="true"] {
  min-height: 156px;
  max-height: 156px;
}

Re: the Custom Footer patch. I have fw 4.2.8110 loaded on 3 different devices, H2O, GloHD and KA1. It's working as well as it always has done for me in both epub and kepub.

Re: the 'footerFixedHeight' code above. I thought I'd tried just about every likely contender I could find in nickel CSS streams, but no joy. Still, if you find time, a second opinion is always worthwhile I did think I was going in circles by the time I finished looking!

The only useful success I had with any kind of reduced footer in nickel - apart from your long-standing 'ReadingFooter' widget patch - was with the footer you get when you do a 'search in book'. This one works pretty much like the 'reduce kepub header' and can be found in the compressed stream containing the widget #SearchMenuView.

ETA: I'm not sure why it would make a difference to the results but perhaps I should also have mentioned this. Because I have rather a lot of nickel patches, many of which are to compressed CSS streams, I use the pipcat-method to apply all nickel patches, rather than doing some through the pipcat-method and some through the main Patcher.

[GeoffR]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

Re: the Custom Footer patch. I have fw 4.2.8110 loaded on 3 different devices, H2O, GloHD and KA1. It's working as well as it always has done for me in both epub and kepub.

Thanks. It's been a long time since I read a KePub other than full-screen, so I spent a bit of time testing the `Custom reading footer style` patch in firmware 3.19.5761.

I did notice a difference between ePub and kePub: In KePubs I can get the text a lot closer to the page number than without the patch, but I still can't get it quite as close as I can in ePubs.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

Okay, that is possible. Unfortunately I don't have a solution in that case.

Edit: I've added a note of this problem to post #2 of this thread.

I just tried a kepub with my H2O on 4.2.8110 and I think you can remove the note. The footer is the same size as with RMDSK and I can get the text pretty close to the footer. So as far as the H2O goes, the patches seem to work.

[jamalau]

Is there a patch available to Changing the info panel in full size screensaver (upper left corner)?

[GeoffR]

Here is the `Brightness fine control` patch for firmware 4.2.8110, paste into libnickel.so.1.0.0.patch:

Spoiler:

<Patch>
patch_name = `Brightness fine control`
patch_enable = `yes`
#
## Sun symbols change the frontlight brightness in 1% instead of 5% steps.
#
# ValueDisplaySlider::setStep(5) --> ValueDisplaySlider::setStep(1)
replace_int = 73C82E, 5, 1
</Patch>

[Martina Schein]

Thank you very much, GeoffR. The `Brightness fine control` patch woks very fine on my H2O.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

Here is the `Brightness fine control` patch for firmware 4.2.8110, paste into libnickel.so.1.0.0.patch:

Spoiler:

<Patch>
patch_name = `Brightness fine control`
patch_enable = `yes`
#
## Sun symbols change the frontlight brightness in 1% instead of 5% steps.
#
# ValueDisplaySlider::setStep(5) --> ValueDisplaySlider::setStep(1)
replace_int = 73C82E, 5, 1
</Patch>

Very nice! Thank you.