[Final] Book Reader 2.7 (3.0 and 3.1 compatible)

[LancerRevolution]

Originally Posted by Netrix

Yes, the text reader. Changing individual text files is too inefficient. The quotes need to be standard ASCII characters... Which means ", not “ or ”. If you want the quotes to show up, replace “ and ” with ".

uhh...ok i kinda get it,but maybe if u can get ledzepps dealy in it,itll fix it so i dont ahve to do that,i dont want to have to go thru each book and replace,be a royal pain in the ass

[Netrix]

New version. Check first post. More quotes are supported now.

[zaboomafoo1212]

I have A 30gb zune and it keeps restarting when I go to open the book.

[Netrix]

Originally Posted by zaboomafoo1212

I have A 30gb zune and it keeps restarting when I go to open the book.

Add a text file to the Books folder before you deploy.

[LancerRevolution]

oh for zaboom,dont click right away,happend to me once.when u get in,wait about 5 secs,maybe move up n down thru ur books,then goto the one u want.may work.happend to me.i decided to redeployed it and it dont do anymore.when you redeploy,delete from zune,then redo the add.

EDIT:NVM,i know have the problem,and wont load them anymore,i tryed what i did again,nada

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[Netrix]

An update is coming in the morning...

[Impeached]

It seems to randomly restart while I'm reading the book, with no warning. My battery is over half power.

Want me to attach the book?

Also, a feature request: could you add a battery meter somewhere? Twice now my Zune has run out of battery while I'm reading, without using a bookmark for awhile.

[Netrix]

Originally Posted by Impeached

It seems to randomly restart while I'm reading the book, with no warning. My battery is over half power.

Want me to attach the book?

Also, a feature request: could you add a battery meter somewhere? Twice now my Zune has run out of battery while I'm reading, without using a bookmark for awhile.

Version 1.9 is now available. It fixes a minor thing that I overlooked that could cause the Zune to crash when opening a book. It might also fix the memory leak.

Impeached, first see if this version fixes your problem. I don't know if it is possible to detect how much battery is left.

[Hawthorne]

Netrix, if displaying the battery isn't a possibility, is checking it a possibility? Meaning, that everytime you flip a page, your Zune checks your battery, and if it's close to running out, the reader remembers your position, shows a "Battery Low" sign or whatever, and shuts the application off automatically.

[LedZepp]

No, there is no Battery access in the CTP, hopefully they add it to the holiday release

[Rockman87]

I found a new bug from 1.7-1.9. Currently I'm using 1.9.

After newlines it leaves off the first word of the next paragraph.

ex: this is how it displays on the zune...

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban By JK Rowling

ONE OWL POST

Potter was a highly unusual boy in
many ways. For one thing, he hated
the summer holidays more than any
other time of year.

It should display like this:

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban
By JK Rowling

CHAPTER ONE
OWL POST

Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in
many ways. For one thing, he hated
the summer holidays more than any
other time of year.

This is the case of all my books... the line formatting isn't that big of a deal... but the 1st word after a new line gets erased.

If this isn't enough info...let me know I will post my book files online for you.

[Netrix]

Originally Posted by Hawthorne

Netrix, if displaying the battery isn't a possibility, is checking it a possibility? Meaning, that everytime you flip a page, your Zune checks your battery, and if it's close to running out, the reader remembers your position, shows a "Battery Low" sign or whatever, and shuts the application off automatically.

I could put an option for auto-bookmarking. So that every 1, 2, 5, or 10 minutes, it automatically bookmarks whatever position is book is currently at.

Rockman87, it would be helpful if you can post at least one of your books so that I can see what format the line breaks are in. All I will probably have to do it change one line of code, but I need to what to change.

[LedZepp]

Originally Posted by Netrix

I could put an option for auto-bookmarking. So that every 1, 2, 5, or 10 minutes, it automatically bookmarks whatever position is book is currently at.

I think theres a method defined in XNA that is called something like IsExiting and it gets called when the game exits, now i dont know if it works on the zune and if it would work in the case of low battery but you should experiment with it.

The exact method is:

protected override void OnExiting(object sender, EventArgs args)
{
      base.OnExiting(sender, args);
}

[Netrix]

Originally Posted by LedZepp

I think theres a method defined in XNA that is called something like IsExiting and it gets called when the game exits, now i dont know if it works on the zune and if it would work in the case of low battery but you should experiment with it.

The exact method is:

protected override void OnExiting(object sender, EventArgs args)
{
      base.OnExiting(sender, args);
}

It gets called when the Back button is held, before it restarts. I imagine it might work if it shuts down because of low battery. I'll see if it does.

EDIT: The problem which caused words to be removed has been fixed and will be in the next version.

[Epoc]

Can you add the feature (if it isn't there) to be able to browse a book by chapters, or put a book into sub-sections, so if you have a book, and you then have different files within a folder instead of having a bunch of text files to choose from? if not, no big deal...

[Netrix]

Originally Posted by Epoc

Can you add the feature (if it isn't there) to be able to browse a book by chapters, or put a book into sub-sections, so if you have a book, and you then have different files within a folder instead of having a bunch of text files to choose from? if not, no big deal...

I will do sub-sections. This is a really good idea, because if you have really big books, you could split them up and open just the section which you are on. If you are in the second half of the book, you wouldn't need to load the first half, for example.

[Epoc]

Thanks, I just got Sam's teach yourself C# in 24 hours and had to split them up by hour.

[Rockman87]

Originally Posted by Netrix

EDIT: The problem which caused words to be removed has been fixed and will be in the next version.

so you don't need those files then?

That will be a great feature... then we can split up our files and load books by chapters. I think an option for autobookmarking would be nice... My zune is always charged. It will help some people.

[LancerRevolution]

Originally Posted by Rockman87

I found a new bug from 1.7-1.9. Currently I'm using 1.9.

After newlines it leaves off the first word of the next paragraph.

ex: this is how it displays on the zune...


It should display like this:




This is the case of all my books... the line formatting isn't that big of a deal... but the 1st word after a new line gets erased.

If this isn't enough info...let me know I will post my book files online for you.

Originally Posted by Netrix

It gets called when the Back button is held, before it restarts. I imagine it might work if it shuts down because of low battery. I'll see if it does.

EDIT: The problem which caused words to be removed has been fixed and will be in the next version.

yeah i noticed last night it was doin that also,words bein removed and them being close n whatnot.

[Netrix]

Also, this:

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban By JK Rowling

...can not be fixed to look like this:

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban
By JK Rowling

This is because it's actually like this:

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban\n\rBy JK Rowling

That is a problem, because text in the rest of the book has line breaks like this:

...their cloaks and started walking\n\rbriskly in the same...

The same line breaks are put at the end of each line, and since the screen on the Zune is much smaller than normal page width, which is the width that the line breaks are set to work with, if I recognize them as line breaks, it will look horrible on the Zune. Some lines would have line breaks in the middle of the lines, or even at the very beginning of the lines.

Thus, single "\n\r" line breaks have to be ignored...