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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jjollyroger:
I mean number 2-3 , probably arrows did not work cause book wasn't loaded.. so they only took back to text without change page.. so making this bar a little bigger ( I mean wide till screen border) would make it better IMO
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
I already have changescreen installed and the HTC rotation in BSB Tweaks disabled, because I don't want rotation to be always on(changescreen has a nice toogle function :) ). Especially Freda is an app which I use most of the time while lying in the bed or on the sofa, so Gsensor rotation isn't an option for me. And I always use Freda in landscape view because it's better to read that way in my opinion(less line changes). So I think Freda should just open in landscape by default (of course changeable in the options for those who don't want to read in landscape).

I thought about the whole orientation issues and found a solution (at least in theory) for most:

Just don't change the orientation and just rotate the text of Freda. I don't know how hard it would be to do that and if it even is possible for Freda, but there are for example some games who do it that way. Then you could change to Manila/Sense without having to rotate.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mmp17:
Re. the slide bar that controls the book position; a page/chapter number under it would allow for better control. I personally would prefer a goto page setup as I can't get the slider to move exactly where I want to go.

Mendel
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bluenote73:
hey jim

two things:

1 - tap to turn doesnt seem to respect disable animation

2 - installing to storage card still creates freda temp in main partition

thx

Cory
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
OK, that will be fixed in the next build.

That's odd. Can you email me your log file (logfile.txt from the Freda program folder) please (to home@jim-chapman.net). Actually, if you're comfortable with using Registry Editor programs, could you also make a check for me - can you tell me whether a registry key HKLM/Software/Freda/InstallDir exists, and, if so, what value it has.

Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
I can't find a working download link for that program - so I can't test it. Can anyone send me a link (or indeed the CAB file)?

One thing that would be worth trying anyway is to put a \ on the front of the path - i.e.:

\scheda di memoria\programmi\dizionari\dictionary.exe

Thanks,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jjollyroger:
Hi Jim ,try here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=75I6IRJL for free users you have to check the text box on high right then click "scarica file" , you'll have a 40 sconds countdown then it will appear the box "download standard" to click.. done.

If you have problems I'll try to send piece after piece by mail (don't know if I can send a 35 mb zip file at once)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
I have tested Freda with this program, and it seems that Freda can launch it OK (though you do need to add an initial \ character at the start of the path). But I can't figure out how to make the dictionary pick up the word that it is meant to be looking up.

Freda puts the search text onto the clipboard, and you can also specify it as a command line parameter using a syntax like "|{0}" in the Freda 'settings' screen - I have tried this, and it doesn't seem to make PocketDictionary do a lookup on the specified word.

Does anyone know how, in a command line, to make PocketDictionary look up a specified word?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bluenote73:
hey jim

reg key exists and points correctly, to internal storage

freda dir contains no logfile.txt

however, when I discovered freda using main storage, I deleted that directory.

Fwiw, main programs dir was "freda", no capitalization. perhaps the logfile was in there.

typing from my phone so hopefully thats clear enough.

thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] papimuzo:
Nothing new since the post before this one?

This thread seems very quiet since some days.... nothing new about this already very good tool? Any development? Curious it stopped rather abruptly?

Best to all.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jasonsf:
I'm sure Jim is just busy. And beta testers may be sending bugs via email instead of posting.

Jason
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
I've shared all the bugs I have found here in the thread. If every beta tester does so, a lack of (bug)posts should be a good sign.

For those who have Freda 2.0 and want to know how to use the OPDS feature with dropbox and calibre: Here is a tutorial to set everything up. To open it with Freda just go to Library>Action>Add Books>Add OPDS Catalog and then enter the url to the catalog.xml.

I haven't really tested to open a book with it because I already copied every book to my SD, but at least I could browse the books. Now Jim has to give us a way to save the URL and we finally have a good way to keep our library up to date.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jasonsf:
Awesome! Thanks for the dropbox tips.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
The tip is originally from Jim.

I read it some time ago, but paid no attention. Somehow I remembered it yesterday and just used google to find the tutorial I linked to. And since it seems to be a great way to get your books from Calibre to your phone, I thought I'd share my new knowledge with you. When V2 is out of beta, it should be added to the manual.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Don't worry nothing sinister is going on. It's just that:

1) I'm travelling on business at the moment, which has reduced my available free time;

2) I'm now at the tedious stage of producing a 'final release candidate' build, which always takes longer than you'd hope (the current tedious task is 'updating the manual')

Then I need to put together the builds for all the other WinMo/WinCE versions (other than 6.x, that is) which will take a while.

I expect to have that release candidate ready some time next week (so those beta-testers who take vacation time around 4th July will have something to play with over the long weekend). If that testing doesn't produce any major horrors, I'd expect to do a general release a week later.

Thanks to all,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dapope:
Thanks for that I am looking forward to it :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
The OPDS screen will start at the catalog URL specified by the 'Default OPDS catalog' setting. You need to go to the 'Settings' screen to find it, though. It would, I admit, be better to have a control on the OPDS screen itself saying, "Set 'home' to current URL". It's on the 'to do' list.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
But then I would loose the feedbook catalog...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
This is true. Perhaps the best work-around is to create, e.g. in "\my documents\freda favourites.opds", a file that contains an OPDS catalog with "<entry>" sections pointing to each of the different OPDS catalogs that you want to be able to use. Then set your default OPDS catalog to "file:///my documents/freda favourites.opds" and away you go.

I admit this does require a certain amount of tedious mucking about with text editors, and is not ideal.

The ideal answer is to have a list of 'favourite' OPDS catalogs. But this feature will be complicated to implement - particularly since the obvious use-case for this is "Tell me what books have been newly entered into one (or any) of my favourites since last time I looked". So it's not going to happen soon.

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] papimuzo:
Happyness

First, thanks to have produced this very good e-reader (I 'm trying to iron out the M$oft version from my PDA)

Second, thanks for even taking time to reply..

Third, my post was not to urge you to advance! Just a surprise that such a beautiful tool didn't brought more comments.

So, just quietly waiting for v.2.0. Best.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] lufc:
Great app thanks woks very well:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] esociarius:
Thank you very much

Thank you very much for this great reader - I use it dayly and i am looking forward to your next version.

Greetings from Bavaria

esociarius
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mings:
I Think Stanza (IPhone) is the best, anyone have for WM/PPC ???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hellmonky:
:pwill it support such format:UMD,rar,zip,mht?

thank you for your wonderful app
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tebaomang:
Great app. A little bit slow on my HTC Blue Angel but I guess the problem is the speed of my device.

I tried to replace the icons on the shortcuts screen and I see that the icons are not smooth. Is there any way to change the sizes and positions of those icons.

Thanks you :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
New beta version available - WM6, WM5, 2003 and WinCE

All,

I have a further beta release available for testing; I've emailed out details to my usual testing panel, but if anyone hasn't received details who is interested in doing some testing, please contact me at home@jim-chapman.net.

I'd be particularly glad to hear from users of WM5, 2003 and WinCE devices, as I now have test builds for those platforms, and I'd appreciate help with checking them out.

BTW, I expect the general release of Freda v2 to happen in a week or so, unless the testing discovers some truly fundamental problem.

Cheers,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
No. I use a WinForms ListView control to display the icon shortcuts. and that does not give you control over icon layout. I did it that way because it means that the screen is usable (though ugly) with all screen sizes and aspect ratios. If I'd done a custom control for the shortcuts screen, I'd have had to do special-purpose coding to deal with every possible set of screen dimensions ... a horrible job. Since I only have a limited amount of time to devote to the project, I thought it better to spend the time on other features. But if others feel differently, the source code is out there, so you're free to have a go.

I'd recommend waiting for the v2 release though - because the shortcuts/control logic is much better encapsulated in that release (in v1, it's really spaghetti code !)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
it's not a priority for me, because I expect EPUB to become the dominant format, and adding compatibility to other formats just means making the code base larger and more complex.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Stanza doesn't work on WM/PPC. That's why I wrote Freda.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
And why is it the best/better then Freda?

PS: I have access to an old HTC Trinity/P3600 and I think it runs WM5 stock ROM. So I could test Freda on it for you. I also have access to a HTC Startrk which runs a 6.1 custom ROM, I think.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Well, I suppose the obvious differences are:

1) Stanza has prettier graphics and animations (reflecting the fact that iPhone developers kit has proper support for graphics co-processors, whereas Windows Mobile does not ... though Windows Phone 7 is much better in this respect)

2) Stanza has better integration with on-line book sources (though Freda2's ability to read OPDS catalogs does bring it closer to Stanza's level)

3) Stanza lets you read paid-for ebooks without requiring you to go through various obscure not-very-legal steps to manually remove DRM-protection

4) Stanza runs on iPhone. If you're an iPhone Fanboi, that's reason enough. I personally prefer a phone you can hold any way you like, and even left-handed (ROTFL).

And of course:

Stanza is the product of a serious software engineering team working for a serious corporation (Amazon); Freda is just me, working in spare time in my evenings and weekends :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] palmtreo5000:
can i use in my winddows mobile 6.1 palm treo 500 non touch?

pliz i need this program which opens html.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] palmtreo5000:
In my winddows mobile 6.1 palm treo 500 non touched, freda6.cab i tried to install ...it was successfully installed but when i was running the application ..there is "unexpected error" quit and restart the program pop up in my mobile device..

what to do now..

i need this program plizzzzzzzzzz
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dapope:
Thought this was a windows software part, not an apple fanboi/iphone worshipping group :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Unfortunately, I have been having problems getting Freda to work with non-touch screen devices. I am still working on it, and if I do get a version that works acceptably, I will post details on this forum.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jasonsf:
It may not be the prettiest product in the world, but it is super functional. Can't say that for most open source freeware out there. Thanks, Jim!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jjollyroger:
Hi, same on beta 2.0.103 ,large books hang on 99% also if I manually go to last page, but freda recognizes chapters and is able to add bookmarks.

in picture you see what happens (each 4-5 pages) when changing line spacing in options.

I sent you a mail with a book and the log file.

Just ask if you need some specific information or test
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
That is not 'hanging' as such. In v1, the % number told you how much paginating Freda has completed - but in Freda2, it is just telling you how much of the book you have read (99% meaning 'you are very near the end of the book').

The red square on the screen means that Freda2 has experienced a 'low memory' condition, and is now running in 'low memory mode'. You can still read a book when Freda2 is in low memory mode, and most program features will still work OK.

On the other hand, I do see something strange happening with the character rendering on your phone. Could you send me your Freda settings file (freda.fst in the settings2 subfolder under the Freda program file folder) and I will see if I can figure out what is happening. If you could send me the epub file also, that might be helpful
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jjollyroger:
it happens when I change the line spacing.

See also this picture of the auto-scroll mode , the scrolling cursor is not aligned with words.I sent you the files you required

found a little bug in "contents": wwhen you click on a chapter in list, at the bottom of page is showed with a "- 1" number
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vortex2:
Freda is brilliant and the most used program on my HD2. Upgraded to v2 but have to say when the paginating fails on large books, it is a deal breaker. I've reverted back to v1.1 because it never fails to paginate and as I always stay in portrait mode I don't find the speed of paginating a problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
What do you mean by 'fails to paginate'? Do you mean a situation where there is some part of the book that you cannot read? Because that situation should not happen with Freda (either v1 or v2). If you are getting such a problem, please send me details (with the log file) and I will investigate.

Or do you mean 'low memory mode'? (in Freda2, indicated by a small red square at the bottom right of the screen; in Freda1, indicated by a message at the bottom of the screen saying that pagination could not be finished). But even in 'low memory mode' you will be able to get to every page of the book. So far, I did not find any book that would paginate completely in Freda1 but would not do so in Freda2 - so if you have any examples, I would be keen to look at them.

Thanks,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vortex2:
Hi Jim

By failing to paginate I mean Freda does not resolve the page numbers - therefore low memory mode with the red square. Although the book is readable I find not having the page numbers and the flashing red square too big a distraction. Also the program exits occasionally following a 'trying to recover memory' warning. This occurs even if I close all other programs so that only Freda is running. I don't get this problem with v1.1.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Hey Jim, Awesome software I must say. I'll so far go to say that for me it blows away even mobireader for a inclusion of single feature alone - touch-screen scrolling.

Although its awesome, I just have noticed some abnormalities,

1. The gap separation between 2 paragraphs looks more than one line, i.e. it is a good 4-5 lines between 2 paragraphs which creates a 'black band' kind of region between text. Is there any setting to reduce the gap space?

2. All text is justified, so some of my books look plain out funny. Is it possible to get an option to non-justify it. This isn't really a major thing though.

Here's what I mean for point 1 (yeah, I've STILL got a Wizard, runs 6.5.3 though and no slowdowns :P ). http://imgur.com/k3tGP.jpg
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
The page number has been replaced by the percentage (it doesn't show the paginating progress anymore). The red square is only flashing at the beginning for me. Later it is just red.

As far as I remember, there are such options. I think in v1 it was under the settings for the book. In v2 I remember to have seen those in the settings screen.

I don't have a suitable book at hand. So I can't tell you which option will help you, but you should be able to find them by trying.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Look for the 'Max Margin' setting and set it to 10% or 0%. That will reduce the size of all margins, including vertical ones.

If you're using Freda v1.1, you could try playing with the setting 'Para Layout' on the 'Book Properties' screen. That might help. Freda v2 (release of which is imminent) has a 'Force Alignment' setting to help with this situation.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
I'm getting reports indicating that on some devices Freda2 has much less available memory than Freda1 did. The program itself doesn't use more memory, but I think it's suffering from the way that WM manages memory, particularly as regards the loading of DLLs. My suspicions centre on the OpenNetCF DLL, and I will try building a test build that doesn't use that DLL.

Anyone who's tried both v1 and v2, and is seeing memory problems that only affect v2, please email me (home@jim-chapman.net) and I will send that test build to you.

Thanks,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
Yes! I found it. Now, its exactly as I want it to look like. Thank you!

Silly me thought Book properties was related to book and I never even saw those things. I would always go only into application properties and search for options.

I don't know but imo it makes more sense to just have one options tab since I don't know the reason for keeping them separate.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
In v2 it's that way.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] runwitme:
ok DL it and going to try it on my CDMA TP .. :D

edit: works great .. if only i had some books or if only it came with some books .. lol .. so im fairly new to this freda .. how does one go about getting books to read?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vortex2:
Lots of free ePub books at feedbooks.com
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] :
So, is v2 online?

The homepage says nothing of the new version.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Not on line yet - only available for beta-testing. If all goes well, the new version will be on general release in the next 2 or 3 days.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jjollyroger:
hi jim, I tried freda beta 2.0.103 WM6

lm

but I see no improvements in opening large epubs files , It's still unable to show page numbers but only the percentage and lost book picture after the first scroll, memory indicator on bottom-right stays red.

so the paginating problem of my large files is not due to the OpenNetCF use I think
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
I think 2.0.103 still uses OpenNetCF. I got 2.0.103 a few days before Jim first wrote about his suspicion regarding OpenNetCF.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
The key is the "lm" - if you see 'WM6 lm' on the splash screen, you're using the version that I built for investigating the 'low memory' problem.

But it does sound like it hasn't fixed the problem. Further reports are welcome though. I will continue investigating, because it seems that the problem is something that was changed between the 101 and 102 builds ...

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dapope:
THANKYOU :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jjollyroger:
pleased to see the public release, a big improvement from the first version.

for my use it remains to solve only the paginating-indexing issue on large epub files (not too bad since bookmarks and search work also without page numbers), other things are almost perfect, thanks for your efforts Jim!

I still suggest an auto-scoll that could arrive till the end of the page and then flick to next page, and a self restoring rotation when closing freda, cause closing freda in landscape result in a Manila rotation (on htc devices).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] esociarius:
Thank you very much

Dear Jim,

thank you very much for your great reader.

It works very good - except to the problem with the paginating of large e-books, which is not a big thing for me (If you want, I can send you the ebook-file per mail)

Greetings from Bavaria

esociarius
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] esberlat:
Thanks Jim, you're the greatest
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] pmarini0:
Bookmarks

First, I want to thank you for Freda. Believe me, I've tried *all* WM ebook readers and Freda is my personal favorite.

The new version is working and looking great and I didn't encounter any problems so far.

One quick rant anyway: for me, Freda handled bookmarks better in the old version. The file format, naming and location of the bookmark file made more sense.

Before: bookmarks were kept in a xml file, called book_name.fbm, in the settings folder.

Now: bookmarks are kept in a dat file, called bookmark.dat, in the book temp folder.

So, old bookmarks seem to be lost (unless if it's possible to convert them to the new format) and new bookmarks could also be easily lost when cleaning the temp folder...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] the_flames:
IS there anyway of returning to normal view insted of full screen view in V2? I've looked and i cannot see how,

and BTW the reader is great... it knocks the socks off Mobipocket ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
Sorry no - v2 only has full screen mode. Supporting both layouts was proving just too complicated in programming terms. Most of the things you'd want windowed mode for are still available though:

1) clock and battery: you've now got an option to display them at bottom left.

2) windows status bar ([windows] and [x] buttons, signal strength indicator ...): is visible if you bring up the shortcuts screen.

Thanks for using Freda,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Jim Chapman:
They're on my 'future features' list - so not forgotten.

Thanks,

Jim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Incarniac:
Jim, fantastic work on what is in my humble opinion the best ebook reader on Windows Mobile. A small donation has been made (4HM29656BD5762506) - keep up the good work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jandre:
Is in your 'future feautures' list support for other languages interface?

Regards, and thanks for your program.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] papimuzo:
splendid v 2

Thanks Jim for the only best e-reader for VM: It will stay on my phone definitively.

Paypal in order (Confirmation number: 7EG24524A6384244K).

Keep up your good work.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Raudi1:
It was some time ago, but this is what Jim wrote when he released the beta: