Gp Book V1.0

[WhiteFalcon]

Just want to announce that another text viewer for the GP32 is out. I sent the package to the news mail adress so hopefully it will appear on the main page sometime in the near future along with the specs.

 

[Jarska333]

Features?

 

[Kojote]

Send the pack to "kojote (at) webmaster (dot) de" too i will make sure it will be mentioned in the news right after i recieve the file

 

[WhiteFalcon]

Sent

 

[WhiteFalcon]

Features:

- 16 colors of text & background to choose from
- two modes of text formatting
- word wrapping
- proportional font
- save/load bookmark
- running at 21MHz to save batteries

 

[Octavious]

cool
does it have a browser or do all text documents have to be in certain file?

This could be useful for read-mes on the gp32

~Octavious

 

[WhiteFalcon]

Sure there is a browser, you can open any file on your SMC, though only txt files are highlighted to make file finding easier

 

[WhiteFalcon]

Kojote: Hmm, it returned back to me as undeliverable...

 

[WhiteFalcon]

OK, I am having some trouble submitting the application, so there it is.

Screenshots:

File:

GP Book v1.0

 

[PiNa1971]

Nice one ...

Anyway, there is a new beta version of !reader supporting eastern and russian fonts. I got it for testing and it looks really nice. Author or !reader will finish it in a few weeks and then will release public version. Stay tuned, it's gonna be THE ebook reader for GP32

 

[Iorgy77]

Nice work WhiteFalcon, a handy little txt reader.

Anyway, there is a new beta version of !reader supporting eastern and russian fonts. I got it for testing and it looks really nice. Author or !reader will finish it in a few weeks and then will release public version. Stay tuned, it's gonna be THE ebook reader for GP32 smile.gif

So start your own thread. I'm sure the authors of both readers are really happy with your comments here. :angry:

 

[aapje89]

Yeah, really nice

 

[WhiteFalcon]

Iorgy77 & aapje89: thanks

PiNa1971: Well, I have been thinking about adding other character sets too. Not exactly the russian one, but maybe czech and/or greek. And more language versions. It all depends on feedback as always. Concerning my needs, I am happy with it as it is.

 

[PiNa1971]

# I tested it on my BLU+. Not bad at all, but used font seems to be too cheesy for me.

# Option for adding own fonts would be REALLY nice. As files with Czech chars screw up display totally Dunno why

# Formating text works in a tricky way ... support of paragraphs recognition would be nice.

But it is really nice to see a new ebook reader for GP32 released. Keep up your good work.

 

[Octavious]

well, I am already using this
I am keeping a list of console commands for Quake on my GP
will come very in handy when my chatboard gets here ( Come on JRSwiss )

does it read .doc files? or do I need to put them in txt format?

~Octavious

 

[dr.no]

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Is it just me/my monitor or is the picture (the letters) very blurry in that area from top to bottom?

 

[Iorgy77]

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Is it just me/my monitor or is the picture (the letters) very blurry in that area from top to bottom?

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Yeah its a bad pic, really doesnt do the reader justice.

 

[PiNa1971]

Yes they are, but it looks OK on real hardware. Probably due to compression.

 

[Octavious]

I really like this
its great
very usefull
thx man

and, the word wrap is PERFECT!
its great on paragraphs. Now I can type a report on the gp32 with edge pad and read nicely using this , I could give bookreports with this!
lol

~Octavious

 

[WhiteFalcon]

PiNa1971: I hope you have nothing against me because I refused to give you the incomplete dictionary...? Anyway, the font may get improved and maybe I will add more fonts, but own fonts...not too probable. Czech characters doesnt show right now since there is no support for them. And about the third comment, I have been playing around with the formatting for quite many days and I cannot see much to change there. TXT files come in lots of formats and its almost impossible to support them all. There is no standard to a text file, but with text formatting ON GP Book tries to somehow "kick it into shape".

Octavious: I am glad you have use for it No DOC support, only plain txt files. On the other hand, you can use TAB spaces to make the text look more formatted.