New Version Of Opie-reader, On my web-site now Options

[TimW]

I've managed to get access to my webpage at last so I quickly pushed the current versions of opie-reader up there while it lasted.

There are four versions:

Sharp ROM
Sharp ROM (statically linked) - use this if the above won't work for you.
OE builds using GCC 3.x - e.g. OpenZaurus/Opie
Qtopia versions 1.6 or greater builds with gcc 2.x - this should work with the Archos, qtopia 2.x ROM or the Cacko Qtopia 1.6 ROM (all untested)

I've discovered that some problems with the builds which are dynamically linked may be due to me not refreshing the library cache in the ipk. If you find that your install doesn't work try a reboot or soft reset. Anyone who knows how to refresh the dynamic library cache from an ipk let me know 8^).

Because I had a relatively small window in which to post them I haven't tested the ipks quite as much as I usually do so let me know of any problems in this thread.

[Meanie]

I've managed to get access to my webpage at last so I quickly pushed the current versions of opie-reader up there while it lasted.

There are four versions:

Sharp ROM
Sharp ROM (statically linked) - use this if the above won't work for you.
OE builds using GCC 3.x - e.g. OpenZaurus/Opie
Qtopia versions 1.6 or greater builds with gcc 2.x - this should work with the Archos, qtopia 2.x ROM or the Cacko Qtopia 1.6 ROM (all untested)

I've discovered that some problems with the builds which are dynamically linked may be due to me not refreshing the library cache in the ipk. If you find that your install doesn't work try a reboot or soft reset. Anyone who knows how to refresh the dynamic library cache from an ipk let me know 8^).

Because I had a relatively small window in which to post them I haven't tested the ipks quite as much as I usually do so let me know of any problems in this thread.

put ldconfig into the postinst script

[TimW]

put ldconfig into the postinst script

There is no ldconfig on the Sharp based ROM I've been using. Does that matter?

[samxiao]

what are the new features and new fixes?

[Meanie]

put ldconfig into the postinst script

There is no ldconfig on the Sharp based ROM I've been using. Does that matter?

I guess, if you put ldconfig into the postinst script, then it will dynamically reload libraries for those systems that have it and it will fail on those that dont. Make sure your last line returns 0 as an error code so the installer won't treat the missing ldconfig as a fatal error and barf the install. Just make the last line

echo done

or something similar.

[tovarish]

great tim. will check it out as i write this

tovarish

[TimW]

I guess, if you put ldconfig into the postinst script, then it will dynamically reload libraries for those systems that have it and it will fail on those that dont. Make sure your last line returns 0 as an error code so the installer won't treat the missing ldconfig as a fatal error and barf the install. Just make the last line

echo done

or something similar.

Thanks, I'll give it a go for the next build.

[TimW]

what are the new features and new fixes?

Sorry, too busy working on it to remember exactly what I did 8^).

If you have a 0.7i version then there won't be much difference apart from the graphics viewer has got rid of the scroll bars to make more space for the graphic. You now scroll by "picking the graphic up" with the pointer (i.e. dragging it around) or by using the arrow keys. Oh, and I never managed to baseline the 0.7i version so you can't be quite sure what you have and haven't got.

If you have a 0.7h version there are a lot of fixes for RB support which have also had a knock on affect to improving the html handling a little for all html based formats (RB and mobipocket etc). Also, you should not get into the state which requires deleting the ~/Settings/uqtreader.conf file quite so often. There is also support for the modified plucker and rb formats I use for zpluck and qtrbmake.

There are more minor fixes, too. I'll add to this post as I remember them.

[tovarish]

i am having some problems with scrolling (using arrow keys) in fullscreen mode. the qtopia task bar appears as soon as i scroll up or down. the mode is still fullscreen mode but with the qtopia taskbar.
previous version (i) didnt have this problem.

I am using sharp rom on a c860. i tried both the static and dynamic versions.



tovarish

[TimW]

i am having some problems with scrolling (using arrow keys) in fullscreen mode. the qtopia task bar appears as soon as i scroll up or down. the mode is still fullscreen mode but with the qtopia taskbar.
previous version (i) didnt have this problem.

I am using sharp rom on a c860. i tried both the static and dynamic versions.



tovarish

Thanks. I'll take a look at that. The problem is that fullscreen mode is fundamentally broken in Qtopia 1.5.4 (actually it is the QT/embedded that accompanies qtopia which has the problem) and there is a lot of code in there to work around the problems. The version of QT/embedded which comes with OZ Roms has fullscreen mode fixed in the latest releases so I may have made a mistake when #ifdef'ing the work arounds out for OZ and taken some of them out from the Sharp build, too.

[tovarish]

it would be nice, i have lost the 0.7i ipk

tovarish

[TimW]

it would be nice, i have lost the 0.7i ipk

tovarish

It should still be on my website. Just use the above URLs but change the 7j to 7i.

Unfortunately I'm not sure which version of the 7i releases (which, as I said above, were never properly baselined) broke it. I'm pretty sure that the version I have here is broken but I'm not sure about the web site one.

[TimW]

i am having some problems with scrolling (using arrow keys) in fullscreen mode. the qtopia task bar appears as soon as i scroll up or down. the mode is still fullscreen mode but with the qtopia taskbar.
previous version (i) didnt have this problem.

I can't reproduce this on my SL5000 and I can't find any changes which might have caused this. I'll do a line by line comparison when I get a chance (doing rcsdiff didn't reveal anything significant but sometimes the important difference can get "lost in the noise") but that'll be a long(ish) slow job.

One thing that may be worth trying is deleting ~/Applications/uqtreader/.keymap and redoing your button assignments (or at least going into the button settings dialog and reviewing the settings). I doubt that this is causing a problem but it iw worth a check.

Also, you can get rid of the status and tool bars to get some of the advantages of fullscreen mode. This will still leave the task bar on screen but at least it won't cover any text. Just assign keys to the "Toggle ...bar" functions. Make sure that you know how to get the toolbars back though, else you may have trouble doing much 8^).

If any one else is getting this it would be useful to know which ROMs and which devices. Sharp never released the latest ROM for the SL5000 so I have to rely on a Cacko variant which may have slightly different behaviour.

[ZDevil]

Thanks TimW for your great efforts! Opie-reader has been one of my favorites on my Z, and also one of the reasons why I choose Z (no ebook formatting hell).

I observe one strange behavior of the Bookmark function in this verrsion: whenever I assign a key to add bookmarks, a bar pops up with a field to fill in the name of the bookmark as I press the key, as expected. But to my surprise the hotkey just gets stuck and will run amok keying in the same character nonstop, and the Input Method (I've almost always use CRIM) area also pops up and can't be called off -- when I put it down it jumps up again automatically. I have to be quick enough to press the Close icon (lucky that I put it on the Tool Bar in advance) and the program seems to stop misbehaving meanwhile.

But after closing the current document and start browing thru the file list the scroll bar on the right seems not to obey my stylus and it keeps jumping in a similar fashion to what the input method area does.

Even though I succeed in opening a new file I cannot exit the program, at least not until I go to the console and issue "killall uqtreader" and then the program can be closed normally.

Would all this have to do with the Bookmark thingy in this version? Other functions and hotkeys work fine for me so far.

Please keep up with this great project!

[ZDevil]

Oops. I uninstalled 0.7j and installed other previous versions, including 0.7i and 0.7e, but Opie Reader never get started again, either from GUI or from console. Strange.