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

[Analogus]

The next tricky part is ANT.

Explain what you tried to do to run ANT

[Analogus]

Running ANT:

If you have WIN7 do that:

Navigate to .../build
Dont' open the folder 'build'
Hold down shift and right click on the folder. Chose 'open command shell here' (could be slightly different, I have the german version of WIN7)
Write ANT in the command shell (black box) --> Enter

If everything went right, the compiling process should start and run for a minute. The last lines in the command shell should tell you that build was successfull.

A.

[Pinecone]

WinXP SP3.

I cd'd to the \build directory

And then typed ant to run it.

Also tried ant.bat and ant.cmd

Re-entered the set path statements, to point to the ant directory.

I also tried c:\ant\bin\ant to run it.

----------------------------EDIT

I think it ran, I used c:\ant\bin\ant.bat to get it to run

Now just to find the files it made.

[Analogus]

I think you should alter your windows variables to point to ANT. It is somewhere explained in the readme in ANT. Search for that.
Windows HAVE to know where ANT is installed!

A.

EDit:

1) Alter windows variables (readme)
2) CD to \build
3) type just 'ANT'

[Pinecone]

I did set the variables, but for some reason it would not run.

Got it to run, think I found the files. A Zip file with a directory PRSP INstaller and some files.

Copy the directory onto the reader, any particular place? On the reader is a directory called Database, and under that System and then PRSPlus.

BTW, thanks for the help

[Analogus]

Hej, that's it!

Ok:
Copy the folder PRSPINstaller on the root of the reader (E:, F: or whatever your reader is on your PC). No specific folder.

Resart the reader completely. The folder contains the installer script. Mission done!

A

[Pinecone]

OK, how do you tell what version is on the reader?

It doesn't seem to do what it supposed to be doing with the Home Page Book List (650).

[Analogus]

No version at all! It's a custom build...

You could alter whatever you want (I for my part remove the games and alter some icons).

The 4th line in prsp.properties.sample 'tells' the version. If you edit it like this:
PRSP_VER=Pinecones Build
the reader tells you that the version is 'Pinecones Build'.

A.

Edit: What do you estimate the new version should do exactly?

[Pinecone]

What I was looking for is the Book List on the Home Page. One option is to have it list the next books in the series, and if the book is in several series, it should switch between the series that the book is in.

I know that the Ver line tells which version, but is there a way to check what is on the Reader?

And I assume the Build used the lastest version off the clone.

[Analogus]

Home Page:
Tested it. Next book in collection is working, and no - switching collections seems to be impossible there.

Version:
So far I understand it, the google repository stores the latest snapshoot = latest version (2.0.14) with altered files (no version). Work in progress.

The build uses latest version. So you're up to date. But: if you make a refresh with Mercury to get the latest version new files ares stored on annother place to have the possibility to jump between versions offline. You have to melt them togeteher for making a custom build with the newest files from the gogle repository.

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[Pinecone]

That is, I just pushed a new revision that makes the 'cycle booklist' action also cycle through all collections that a book is in, instead of just the first one it finds. Hope you enjoy

By quisvir on 9/27/11, post 2721

[Analogus]

Hm, just can point in a direction: repository-CLONES:

http://code.google.com/p/prs-plus/source/clones

I never got behind this. For me the 'normal' repository is working like a charm. Maybe you will get some knowledge over this part...

A.

Edit: Booklist:
The mentioned revision of quisvir IS in the DEFAULT repository. Automatic collection switching on the home screen works. But it seems that there is no manual possibility to switch collection to cycle through:

-Open a book from a collection
-Home screen shows next books in the same collection if there IS a next book
-If there is no next book in the collection, next book of the collection is shown, the actual book is in too.
-If there is no next book in another collection for the actual book, nothing is shown.

[Pinecone]

What I understood him to be saying, since this was a revision of the original mod he did, was that as you cycled through the possible listings, it would also cycle through the various collections that a book was in.

So I have a book open, it is the collection %All by Auhtor, %All by Title, Series Collection, and Author Collection. So it should switch through those 4 collections.

It may also be that I have not opened a book, but have the book that I already had opened.

But it does show the next books in the collection %All by Title.

[MiK77]

Did you completely switch off/on the reader after copying the new version to the reader?

Next time you should write a individual version description in the prsp.properties. Then you can check the installed version in Settings->About.

[quisvir]

Originally Posted by Pinecone

What I understood him to be saying, since this was a revision of the original mod he did, was that as you cycled through the possible listings, it would also cycle through the various collections that a book was in.

That is correct. Is the cycle action working properly for you now?


PS: As a sidenote, I've also coded an additional option which lets the user select the collection for the booklist manually. It will be added to the main repository after the next version (v15) is released.