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Old 09-10-2009, 10:59 AM   #286
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Hi DaleDe,

I've had a play in the code and tried building the batch file using unicode. The text appears correctly in the command prompt now if you do a 'type' command on the file, but when you execute the batch file it outputs corrupted symbols. I've done quite a bit of googling and can't seem to find a definative answer to supporting special characters in the CMD process. I may need to nest a seperate command call as you can flag unicode output. Any ideas anyone.
I do not believe there is any support for unicode in the CMD process. Certain commands may support it but the shell processing it very likely to fail. The symbols are not exactly corrupted but rather are being reported on byte at a time as would be expected by a process that does not understand unicode. I suspect this is not a solvable problem with the current shell.

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Old 09-10-2009, 07:38 PM   #287
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Thanks for the info Dale. I think if I'm going to support special characters then it will need to be done on the Windows GUI side which supports them correctly. Hmm. Time to review the code.

Vito it looks like you will need to wait a little longer for a solution. I'll need to modify my code to create a working file on open and then do the parsing with Mobi2Mobi on that and then at the end rename it back to whatever it was before but via Windows as opposed to the command process which doesn't support the special characters.
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Old 09-11-2009, 11:06 AM   #288
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Wow...I followed...some of that.
Thanks again Jad for all your hard work. It's easy to remove the apostrophe from the filename. Just wanted to let you know about it. I actually look more forward to the TAB order fix, LOL!
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Old 09-17-2009, 08:22 PM   #289
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v0.07 of Mobi2MobiGUI released.

Fixed TAB order in the GUI. Thanks to Vito for pointing out that I hadn't done this after the C# conversion.
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Old 09-18-2009, 09:26 AM   #290
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Jad - your program is really fantastic and has helped me fix several author and title listings for my Kindle - thank you!. Is there any chance the program could be updated to handle the Metadata in Topaz-formatted books (.AZW1 file extension)? I'm finding that a lot of the Kindle author-name-errors are from books in that format for some reason.
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Thanks Jad! Tab order works Great!
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Old 09-20-2009, 09:38 AM   #292
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Jad - new minor suggestion. I changed some source code to resize the window - the Mobi2Mobi window was just bigger than the height of my screen. Having a minimize button helps too, but I changed the height to 720 (adjusting picture frames) and centered it - that should nicely fit in all but the most restrictive resolutions. I can do simple things like that, but wouldn't want to miss out on other terrific fixes because I use an older modified resized version!
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Old 09-20-2009, 10:07 AM   #293
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Jad - your program is really fantastic and has helped me fix several author and title listings for my Kindle - thank you!. Is there any chance the program could be updated to handle the Metadata in Topaz-formatted books (.AZW1 file extension)? I'm finding that a lot of the Kindle author-name-errors are from books in that format for some reason.
It uses MobiPerl to change the metadata. If somebody write a program that can change metadata in topaz files I am sure it is easy to plug that into the GUI.
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Old 10-01-2009, 11:13 PM   #294
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I recently went from Windows Mobile to iPhone (wife bought them). I can no longer use my Mobi PRC files on the go. Will this tool help get them to PDB (eReader) format somehow? I have been searching for something to help me convert. I found something that has helped me convert most of my LIT to PDB; although some are not converting for some reason (no errors when opening and reading in MS Reader).

Any help would be great.
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Old 10-02-2009, 08:32 PM   #295
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I recently went from Windows Mobile to iPhone (wife bought them). I can no longer use my Mobi PRC files on the go. Will this tool help get them to PDB (eReader) format somehow? I have been searching for something to help me convert. I found something that has helped me convert most of my LIT to PDB; although some are not converting for some reason (no errors when opening and reading in MS Reader).

Any help would be great.
Well, you can always unpack a mobi file to html and use some other program to convert to eReader format.
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Old 11-24-2009, 09:42 AM   #296
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Hi.New here.Got some problems:i am using windows xp with sp 2 and have .net 3.5 sp1. so. i tried to use mobi2mobi gui (older and newer versions) but it wont open my books . correction:i can open some books but the most of them dont. i keep geting an error message just like the guy from the first page(jbenny) could u pl help me?
i installed the activePerl too but nothing helps..
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Old 11-29-2009, 07:57 PM   #297
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It looks like the evil .NET has struck again. Unfortunately there is a small group of people whose .NET installs just refuse to play nice with the GUI. I actually migrated the code base from C# to VB to eliminate alot of the problems people were having. I'm sorry to all those who are having continuing issues. The one suggestion I can make is to make sure that your .NET 2.0 install has been updated to at least SP1. I know that 3.5 is out but all the other versions get patched independantly by MS. Check under Add Programs in your Control Panel to see what version it has for .NET 2.

The other problem people encounter is special characters in the filename such as " ` ". Depending on how these are named originally some are supported in a DOS environment and others aren't and corrupt the process batch files. The GUI is just a fancy frontend that creates and executes batch files, if something isn't supported in a DOS Prompt the process won't work.

The source code is available for those brave souls who wish to delve into my undocumented and adhoc method of programming and this may help you track down your specific issue as you can use the debugger to see where things crash.

If you are getting sporadic it works on some books and not others, could you please post the full filename as I can check at my end if its a special character issue.

Sorry I can't be more help but I'll try to sort out your issues as far as I can test them.
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Hi,

This looks great so far, and first I just wanted to thank you for what must have been a lot of very hard work.

I was wondering though if there will ever be a Mac version of this Gui?
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Old 12-06-2009, 10:21 AM   #299
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Thank you Jad. It was the " ' " sign ! I am a hungarian reader and we use a lot of ÖÜÓŰÚŐÁÉ . THANK U!
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Glad you got it working Bandy78. Poor old DOS has a real hard time with some characters.

Anarel good old MS don't have VB .NET for the MAC so unfortunately unless you want to try and get this working under WINE or a VMWare appliance you will have to code up a solution on a MAC supported programming language like Realbasic. The source code to the GUI is available so any budding MAC programmers can use that as a starting point. Alternatively you could take Tompe's actual code and build it into a fully self contained app, that would be really cool.
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