PRS-500 Sony Reader official developer site launched - PRSLabs.com

[zechs]

Originally Posted by scotty1024

Everything you need to build a Windows tool is provided. A copy of Visual Studio C++ Express (a free download) and 10 lines of C code (provided by Sony), and you've got your very own LRS to LRF tool you can customize to your heart's content.

Hi guys !!!
I scoured the prslabs site. I could not find that 10 line source code that you mentioned anywhere. Can you please provide the url?

thanks
zechs

[igorsk]

Originally Posted by zechs

I scoured the prslabs site. I could not find that 10 line source code that you mentioned anywhere. Can you please provide the url?

Check the XylogParser API manual.

[zechs]

Originally Posted by igorsk

Check the XylogParser API manual.

Oh, that one.

[zechs]

just out of curiosity,

Have you guys had any luck with xylogparser.dll. I could not get it to work. Keep getting error in XYP_SetXmlFileName(unsigned short *fname). The error I got ranges from 8, 11 and 12. The test file (lrs file) I used was the one that came from sony (OZ.zop).

[zechs]

Originally Posted by esperanc

Has anyone tried to do this? I have tried it in python using the following code (which didn´t work):

from ctypes import *
xylog = windll.LoadLibrary("XylogParser.dll")

check = xylog.MSXML_InitInstance()

if check:
    success = xylog.XYP_Create()
    print "create=",success
    xylog.XYP_SetTextCompressionFlag(0)
    xylog.XYP_SetPCMCompressionFlag(0)
    xylog.XYP_SetFontEncFlag(0)
    xylog.XYP_SetProducerName(u"test")
    #XYP_SetMsgWnd(wnd);
    #XYP_SetMsgID(WM_USER + 100)
    parse = xylog.XYP_ParseDocument(u"test.lrs")
    print "parse=",parse
    xylog.XYP_Release()

Incidentally, the output is

create= 1
parse= 0

The way I got XYP_ParseDocument to work was:

1) make sure the filename supplied is in unicode format. i.e. if your Filename is "Test.lrs", the contents of filename should be:

(c notation - sorry I am not familiar with Python)
ushort *Filename = {0x0054, 0x0065, 0x0073, 0x0074, 0x002e, 0x006c, 0x0072, 0x0073, 0x000}

2) Change the BookID (especially if you are using the sony supplied LRS files). The first 2 characters has to be: "FB"

Good luck !!!!

zechs

[swr2408018]

Has anyone registered or downloaded from the Sony site since April? I tried registering yesterday using a couple different email addresses and haven't received activation information (not in the junk mail folder, either). The site seems to have done some basic work:

a) It won't let me register again with the same email address or email address
b) It recognizes the email address if I ask them to send me my password (but here also I never receive anything)

I cannot login to the site with either account name and password.

If they've shut down the site, does anyone have a pointer to the BBeB character set specification?

Thanks!

[batpuppy]

Hi,
I just registered at the site a few minutes ago after reading this post. I got the activation information in less than a minute and am logged into the site right now.

Originally Posted by swr2408018

Has anyone registered or downloaded from the Sony site since April? I tried registering yesterday using a couple different email addresses and haven't received activation information (not in the junk mail folder, either). The site seems to have done some basic work:

a) It won't let me register again with the same email address or email address
b) It recognizes the email address if I ask them to send me my password (but here also I never receive anything)

I cannot login to the site with either account name and password.

If they've shut down the site, does anyone have a pointer to the BBeB character set specification?

Thanks!

[Alexander Turcic]

Originally Posted by swr2408018

Has anyone registered or downloaded from the Sony site since April? I tried registering yesterday using a couple different email addresses and haven't received activation information (not in the junk mail folder, either). The site seems to have done some basic work:

a) It won't let me register again with the same email address or email address
b) It recognizes the email address if I ask them to send me my password (but here also I never receive anything)

I cannot login to the site with either account name and password.

If they've shut down the site, does anyone have a pointer to the BBeB character set specification?

Thanks!

Not sure if this helps, but check your spam filter settings. I remember when I registered @ their site, the time stamp of the welcome e-mail was incorrect. Some spam filters may be allergic to this.

[jasonkchapman]

Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic

Not sure if this helps, but check your spam filter settings. I remember when I registered @ their site, the time stamp of the welcome e-mail was incorrect. Some spam filters may be allergic to this.

Their mail agent is really badly configured. A lot of MTAs are likely to drop the e-mail before it even gets to a spam checker. It's not just the time stamp. They're also sending it through a machine with no reverse DNS, virtually guaranteeing it's going to get dropped.

Add to that, it's sending HTML e-mail with a mangled MIME type header and no multi-part plain-text component, and you've got a recipe for getting dropped in the bit bucket unknown.

If you don't get the e-mail immediately, and it's not in your junk filters, you'll have to use another address. A lot of commercial services are going to reject it out of hand.

[batpuppy]

Well not sure if this will help or not but yahoo mail seem to have no problem getting the email.

[jasonkchapman]

Originally Posted by batpuppy

Well not sure if this will help or not but yahoo mail seem to have no problem getting the email.

Somehow, that seems appropriate. Yahoo! was never too big on details like RFCs anyway.

[swr2408018]

Thanks, guys, that (Yahoo hotmail account) did the trick! Steve

[flubu]

Originally Posted by scotty1024

The only "tool" is the XYLog parser DLL.

So far in the tool department it's "We help those whom help themselves." :-)

I've got an official parser API spec to aim for in Java, I'm a happy coder.

This officially derails all other efforts.

If you need another java hand, let me know. It's what I do for a living and I'd be interested in helping out.