Author Topic: Opie-reader Support (Read 14271 times)

tovarish · « **Reply #15 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:17:12 am »

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Maybe. Which device, rom and opie-reader version? Does it go away if you disable double-buffering (Settings/Misc tab)? Does it go away in the current version (see below).

C860, Cacko 1.22 (sharp rom), version 0.7h. It doesnt go away with version 0.7i but does go away with double buffering unchecked.
Note: the options frame is larger than the screen area for landscape mode.

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I've tried to keep the amount of data stored about each file quite small but I should be able to add most of this, plus anything else which people think is worthwhile given that I'll be storing more data in the flash area (actually in ~/Applications which I've moved to SD on my device).

cool, my only gripe is that I have a long list of documents and positions are fifo based to scrolling to the right doc and searching for it is a bit difficult.

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Like plucker for palm is it also possible to show the quick document list when no further "back" is possible (in other words opened document is in its home page). This would really help me with one hand operation (quick document list -> open document -> use fingers for links ...-> back ...-> back to quick document list -> new document).

I'll take a look.

thanks...

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if you want the absolute latest, or an opie version e-mail me at timwentford at hotmail dot com any time.

I would like the bleeding edge but for the sharp rom. Is there much difference between the latest opie and the latest sharp versions. I hope the underlining of links could be turned off or on too. sent you an email...

thanks
tovarish

charlie · « **Reply #16 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:22:12 am »

Just a note to say get well soon.
Should have said it sooner really.
When I first got the Z you helped me get the reader working and was very helpful.

Thanks

Chas

TimW · « **Reply #17 on:** April 06, 2005, 08:31:49 am »

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I would like the bleeding edge but for the sharp rom. Is there much difference between the latest opie and the latest sharp versions. I hope the underlining of links could be turned off or on too. sent you an email...
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There is no difference in functionality between the opie and Sharp versions. They are different due to the sizes for fonts which the fontdatabase gives back being different by an order of 10 (probably a bug in qt/e 2.3.2 or Qtopia 1.5.4 which is fixed in later versions but has to be worked around for the Sharp ROMs) and, of course, the opie build requires a more up to date version of gcc.

I'll try and get the underlining option added and send you a new version. (and thanks for the info regarding full screen mode).

tovarish · « **Reply #18 on:** April 10, 2005, 07:41:10 am »

hi tim

is it possible to have opiereader show text in all four orientations instead of the 2 that it doest now

thanks
tovarish

baptista · « **Reply #19 on:** April 10, 2005, 05:55:35 pm »

Hi Tim: I really wish you will be ok now, your program is essential for me. Perhaps ahead IÂ´ll give you some return of the problem I have that is not very important.
Sincerely
Baptista

TimW · « **Reply #20 on:** April 12, 2005, 11:48:24 am »

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hi tim

is it possible to have opiereader show text in all four orientations instead of the 2 that it doest now

thanks
tovarish
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Possible, yes. Easy, no. Worthwhile, maybe.

The rotation stuff was only put in as an interim measure when one of the Sharp ROMs broke the ability for a user to open an app already rotated (IIRC [a href=\"http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net/opie-reader-rotated_2.00_noarch.ipk]there is an ipk[/url] for a desktop entry to open opie-reader rotated on my website but I don't think it works on the current Sharp ROM - but of course I can't verify that as there is no Sharp ROM for the SL5000D though the last time I tried it in one of the compatible ROMs it didn't work). That is why I haven't bothered to change the sense of the cursor buttons etc.

Under the OZ/opie ROMs you can rotate on the fly in any direction you want without requiring any support from the app so the rotation is wasted for opie.

So, if the Sharp ROMs ever regain their ability to open apps in rotated mode, nobody will ever need the rotation in opie-reader. OTOH, this is looking increasingly unlikely but it may be worth trying the above ipk on one of the current roms (any volunteers?) and if that doesn't work I'll take a look.

In the meantime I did have a script which let you open any app in any rotation which was on the old message boards which may be worth searching for.

Here is what I managed to find:

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From: Greg Gilbert <greg.a.t.treke.net>
Date: Wed Sep 18 2002 - 12:28:05 EDT

* Tim Wentford (timwentford@hotmail.com) wrote:
> *This is the script for anyone interested - works on Zaurus when starting
> from default rotation - YMMV:
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> qcop QPE/System "setDefaultRotation(int)" 180
> qcop QPE/System "execute(QString)" uqtreader
> qcop QPE/System "setDefaultRotation(int)" 270
>
> Anyone want to do an Opie-sh script which works for any app?

You can also change the .desktop file to contain a Rotation field,
and then the launcher will happily rotate the application when you
start it. Rotation=90 will rotate it 90 degrees from the
frame buffer's natural orientation.

Greg

Greg's method is the one which is broken in the current ROM but my original method should still work. I'll take a look at how much work it would be but any implementation will probably have to wait until I get a sizable gap on my to-do list (which doesn't happen too often 8^) ).

tovarish · « **Reply #21 on:** April 12, 2005, 02:54:44 pm »

i had tried those methods but they dont work in tne cxxx cacko/sharp roms

the reason for asking this functionality is that when the c860 is in tablet mode landscape the jog dial is at the bottom of the screen making page turning inconvenient

i am not in a hurry

wayne · « **Reply #22 on:** June 03, 2005, 10:09:31 am »

Hi Tim, great program btw!

I'm trying to view Plucker documents, built with Plucker on windows. The documents do load in OpieReader, but all the images are gone! I see in the parameters that there is support for "Larger plucker images", so I can only assume it is supposed to work.

What could be wrong?

Tehas · « **Reply #23 on:** June 03, 2005, 09:50:33 pm »

They work for me. Here are a couple of things to check in jPluck to make sure it's creating images:
In JPluck, did you check your formatting option to make sure you're embedding images? The other possibility would be the "Restrict to" option for the specific site, could it be restricting you away from where the site stores their images? I have mine set to "none".

BTW, I posted the scripts you asked about on the other thread.

TimW · « **Reply #24 on:** June 06, 2005, 05:42:46 am »

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Hi Tim, great program btw!

I'm trying to view Plucker documents, built with Plucker on windows. The documents do load in OpieReader, but all the images are gone! I see in the parameters that there is support for "Larger plucker images", so I can only assume it is supposed to work.

What could be wrong?
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Sorry for the late reply but I was away for a few days. OTOH Tehas has pretty much said what I would have (thanks, Tehas) so hopefully you are up and running. Let me know if you are still having problems.

wayne · « **Reply #25 on:** June 09, 2005, 08:09:35 am »

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They work for me. Here are a couple of things to check in jPluck to make sure it's creating images:
In JPluck, did you check your formatting option to make sure you're embedding images? The other possibility would be the "Restrict to" option for the specific site, could it be restricting you away from where the site stores their images? I have mine set to "none".

BTW, I posted the scripts you asked about on the other thread.
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About the other thread: Thanks! I'll be trying that promptly

Okay i forgot to mention that these Plucker documents were readable on my CliÃ© T615c, and i just moved them to my newly acquired Zaurus. So I know for sure that the images are in it and that, by itself, the document is fine.

TimW · « **Reply #26 on:** June 09, 2005, 08:18:04 am »

If you can send an example document to me I can take a look at it (timwentford AT hotmail DOT com).

Which ROM and which version of opie-reader are you using?

wayne · « **Reply #27 on:** June 14, 2005, 09:15:04 am »

TimW: I'm using the Watapon 1.6.1 ROM on my Poddle SL-5600 unit. The OpieReader version is 0.7h according to the Uninstall Packages program. I downlaoded it from that link: http://www.timwentford.uklinux.net/opie-reader_0.7h_arm.ipk

I will email you a test document that I know works for sure on my CliÃ© in a few minutes.

Thanks for you time

wayne · « **Reply #28 on:** June 16, 2005, 07:48:31 am »

For the record of this forum, we fixed the problem. In the "LAYOUT2" options menu, I had Markup set to "text" instead of "AUTO".

Also, version 0.7h of OpieReader had difficulties reading the images of my Plucker documents. Version 0.7i which will be out soon, fixes that.

Thanks Tim!

sirhc7 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 13, 2005, 01:20:15 pm »

Tim, I'd like to add my best wishes,too; opiereader is great, and your help invaluable.

All the best,

Chris.

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Author Topic: Opie-reader Support (Read 14271 times)