FBReader now working on the FreeRunner

Michael Sheldon mike at mikeasoft.com
Sun Oct 12 21:43:36 CEST 2008


Pupino wrote:
> 2008/10/12 Michael Sheldon <mike at mikeasoft.com>:
>> Giovanni wrote:
>>> Does it also work on OM2007.2?
>>  Probably, assuming all the dependancies are available (which from
>> memory I think they are). Give it a try and let me know ;).
>>
>>  Cheers,
>>   Mike.
>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Michael Sheldon <mike at mikeasoft.com
>>> <mailto:mike at mikeasoft.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi all,
>>>
>>>     I've just spent the day hacking on FBReader to make it work correctly
>>>     under OpenMoko (OM2008.*). Until now it's been pretty much unusable due
>>>     to the GPE version of FBReader expecting you to be using a device that
>>>     has some physical buttons which then get bound to vital functions like
>>>     turning the page. The changes I've made are as follows:
>>>
>>>         * Add scroll forward/backward buttons to the toolbar
>>>         * Add fullscreen mode button to the toolbar (doesn't have an icon
>>>     at the moment, it's the third button from the right)
>>>         * Change fullscreen mode so that it doesn't hide the toolbar
>>>     (otherwise there's no way to get back from fullscreen mode)
>>>         * Switch to using the much prettier blue tango icons
>>>         * Make the line separation larger so the text doesn't overlap
>>>         * Reduce the font size
>>>         * Change the default colours to match openmoko's colour scheme
>>>     better (and so it's a little easier on the eyes)
>>>
>>>     And most importantly…
>>>
>>>         * Make it so that tapping the sides of the screen turns the book's
>>>     pages (left = backwards, right = forwards)
>>>
>>>     Here's a screenshot of what it used to look like:
>>>     http://blog.mikeasoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fbreader-orig.png
>>>
>>>     And what it looks like with my patches:
>>>     http://blog.mikeasoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/fbreader-openmoko.png
>>>
>>>     To install it simply run:
>>>
>>>     opkg install
>>>     http://mikeasoft.com/~mike/openmoko/enca_1.9-r3_armv4t.ipk
>>>     <http://mikeasoft.com/%7Emike/openmoko/enca_1.9-r3_armv4t.ipk>
>>>     http://mikeasoft.com/~mike/openmoko/fbreader_0.8.2a-r6+elleopatches_om-gta02.ipk
>>>     <http://mikeasoft.com/%7Emike/openmoko/fbreader_0.8.2a-r6+elleopatches_om-gta02.ipk>
>>>     (all on one line)
>>>
>>>     For those interested the patch can also be downloaded from
>>>     http://mikeasoft.com/~mike/openmoko/fbreader-openmoko.patch
>>>     <http://mikeasoft.com/%7Emike/openmoko/fbreader-openmoko.patch>.
>>>
>>>     Bonus points for anyone who knows what book I'm testing it with in the
>>>     screenshots (without googling) ;).
>>>
>>>      Cheers,
>>>       Mike.
>>>
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> 
> Nice work! thank you!
> 
> the book is "into the wild"? well the film had that name, maybe the
> book has a different one?

  Nope, *much* older book, good guess though :)

   Mike.




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