uBook - what do you want?

[windows]

Agreed, hope David is watching

[DoctorWkt]

Originally Posted by alpha

What changes, features and improvements do you want to see in uBook?

I've got a PDA with an 800x480 screen, and images are displayed quite small. I'd love an option to set a percentage increase in size, e.g. 150%, 200%. I don't mean the existing zoom in while keeping the image the same size. I mean, for example, that a 100x100 image would be displayed at 150x150 or 200x200 resolution on the screen. Many thanks.

[totallytechie]

How about support for buttons greater than 4?

I know the cursor keys can now have their function changed, but I have a TytnII: on this device button 6 is ideally placed for scrolling. I have to map button 6 to button 3 using another app just so I can use it to scroll,

[µBook]

Originally Posted by DoctorWkt

I've got a PDA with an 800x480 screen, and images are displayed quite small. I'd love an option to set a percentage increase in size, e.g. 150%, 200%. I don't mean the existing zoom in while keeping the image the same size. I mean, for example, that a 100x100 image would be displayed at 150x150 or 200x200 resolution on the screen. Many thanks.

If I understand the question correctly, you can do that by going to Options... -> Images -> Enlarge up to and setting it higher. May not work for images embedded into book files though.

[µBook]

Originally Posted by Fahim

Me too But I'd prefer the coalescing of multiple newlines be a configurable option where you can select whether multiple newlines can be combined into one newline or two - I prefer to see the paragraph breaks clearly ....

If I understamd correctly you are asking the reverse, an option to LEAVE series of empty spaces alone? As the coalescing is done by default.

As for the new line break, you can usually get it to display the way you want by playing with the Book option, parser section.

[DoctorWkt]

Originally Posted by µBook

If I understand the question correctly, you can do that by going to Options... -> Images -> Enlarge up to and setting it higher. May not work for images embedded into book files though.

Not exactly. The Enlarge setting only applies when you click on an image and choose Zoom in. I want to see the whole image enlarged in size by default, i.e. just browsing normally through a file. So, for example, all 100x100 images might appear on-screen by default as 200x200, if some option is set at 2.0.

[µBook]

I looked at the code and that option applies to the slide show (i.e. selecting any image from the Open... page) or images/cells in a UBD file.
So to see the images bigger you have to select them separately from the text there are referenced from.

[DoctorWkt]

David, I understand uBook sees .txt files as Latin-1, but could it be extended to interpret &#nnn; Html characters where nnn > 255? That is, decode the 16-bit number, check if the font has that character, and display it, or display a '*' if the character is missing? Is this possible? It would certainly help to extend uBook into the Unicode arena, at least for Html documents.

[µBook]

I does that for HTML files already, with a VERY simple map:

staticchar *html_udec_chars[] =
{
(char *)8224, "†",
(char *)8226, "•",
(char *)8482, "™",
(char *)338, "Œ",
(char *)339, "œ",
(char *)8804, "<=",
(char *)8805, ">=",
(char *)8230, "…",
(char *)8211, "–",
(char *)8212, "—",
(char *)8213, "—",
(char *)8220, """,
(char *)8221, """,
(char *)8216, "‘",
(char *)8217, "’",
(char *)8364, "€",
(char *)8249, "‹",
(char *)8250, "›",
(char *)8225, "‡",
(char *)8218, "‚",
(char *)8222, "„",
(char *)8240, "‰",
(char *)0
};

The rest gets a '*'.
D.

[brewt]

Epub support. Which doesn't exist anywhere else on a pocket pc, and nobody seems to be in any hurry to get it on there.

-bjc