Tim's brilliant hack for #WikiReader

Ganesh Krishna ganesh.krishna at gmail.com
Thu Dec 31 06:38:51 CET 2009


Hi,
    Thank you Tim and Ron for the patch and the Kernel file. I installed it
on my mine and it improves the usability a lot. the history back/forward is
something I wanted since I bought the device.
Here are my observations(positive) after some hours of testing

1. The history back is fantastic, now I can easily get back to what I was
reading when I accidentally click a link during scrolling.

2. The page up/down is cool too, for fast flipping of pages.

3. There is one behavior that needs a little getting used to. The
scrolling(finger swipe) and pageup/dn touch sensing seems to be overlapped.
Try to scroll down a page (your finger moves from bottom to screen top). if
your finger hits the top boarder, the page will flip in that direction and
you are back at the place you started.
    you can overcome this by swiping only in the middle, and I got used to
it quite quickly.

Thanks,
-GK


On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Ganesh Krishna <ganesh.krishna at gmail.com>wrote:

> Brilliant! I love it. Thank you.
> -GK
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe at ludism.org> wrote:
>
>> The email below was rejected because the attachment was too large.
>> Please read on, and find the patched kernel here:
>>
>> http://www.ludism.org/~rwhe/kernel.elf.borders<http://www.ludism.org/%7Erwhe/kernel.elf.borders>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe at ludism.org> wrote:
>> > Well, I bit the bullet and installed a WikiReader build environment
>> > and compiled the latest kernel. Then I applied Tim's patch and
>> > recompiled and installed the kernel.
>> >
>> > It's brilliant! I'm attaching it to this message. Just rename it to
>> > kernel.elf, save it to your SD card, and pop it back in. Enjoy! (Back
>> > up your old kernel first.)
>> >
>> > Thanks, Tim!
>> >
>> > As a bonus, the latest build also seems to improve touch screen
>> > responsiveness for hyperlinks.
>> >
>> > Ron Hale-Evans
>> >
>> > On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 11:56 PM, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe at ludism.org>
>> wrote:
>> >> Tim,
>> >>
>> >> This sounds awesome! I hope it becomes standard.
>> >>
>> >> Could you please attach a complete kernel for those of us who are too
>> >> lazy to set up a toolchain right now? :)
>> >>
>> >> Happy holidays and thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Ron H-E
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Tim Besard <tim.besard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>> Seems like patch didn't get through, reposting bzipped.
>> >>>
>> >>> -Tim
>> >>>
>> >>> Op woensdag 16-12-2009 om 22:28 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Tim
>> >>> Besard:
>> >>>> Hi all,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Attached to this mail is a small patch I wrote a while ago,
>> introducing
>> >>>> border interactions. It quite simply hacks in a 15px magical border
>> >>>> which when tapped induces certain actions:
>> >>>>   * upper border: page up;
>> >>>>   * lower border: page down;
>> >>>>   * left border: history back;
>> >>>>   * right border: history forward.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I've added page up & down because it reads far faster and scrolling
>> >>>> (at least on my wikireader) turned out to be quite unreadable.
>> History
>> >>>> back and forward are handy shortcuts while clicking through links of
>> an
>> >>>> article.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> -Tim
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> Ron Hale-Evans ... rwhe at ludism.org ... http://ron.ludism.org/ ...
>> (206) 201-1768
>> >>    Mind Performance Hacks book:
>> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101534/
>> >>  The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron of scripture. (Finnegans
>> >> Wake 107:08)
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ron Hale-Evans ... rwhe at ludism.org ... http://ron.ludism.org/ ... (206)
>> 201-1768
>> >    Mind Performance Hacks book:
>> http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101534/
>> >  The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron of scripture. (Finnegans
>> > Wake 107:08)
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ron Hale-Evans ... rwhe at ludism.org ... http://ron.ludism.org/ ... (206)
>> 201-1768
>>    Mind Performance Hacks book: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101534/
>>  The proteiform graph itself is a polyhedron of scripture. (Finnegans
>> Wake 107:08)
>>
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