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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