iLiad Java Viewer Booster Pack

[scotty1024]

I've combined the DJVU and CBZ viewers into a single JAR and added a new launcher that sits in front of the Mobipocket, DJVU and CBZ viewers.

The launcher figures out which viewer to use and starts that viewer.

This has a couple useful benefits. iRex still plays favorites about which viewers get their launched documents stored in Recent Documents. By intercepting the launch in this fashion CBZ and DJVU documents now get recorded in Recent Documents.

The sed scripts I need to write to install this for Average Joe's get easier to write, but I'm still waiting until tomorrow when my mind will be less sleepy. Don't write brickable sed scripts when you're sleepy.

I also discovered the obvious: contentLister hides .mbp files. So even though I'm not using .mbp file format, I call my file .mbp.

The DJVU and CBZ viewers now save the last "page" position and recover it the next time you open the document in that .mbp file.

I'm attaching source and binaries for the non-Average Joe's to kick around whilst I sleep. The javadjvu.jar is in the build directory, yes, it got smaller. I turned off compilation for all the stuff that doesn't currently work on the iLiad.

Put the build/javadjvu.jar from the tar in /home/intent.

Change this line in /home/intent/runmobi.sh

    JVMARGS="-classpath javadjvu.jar;MobipocketCoreReader.jar;kxml2-2.3.0.jar;irex.jar com.scotty1024.iliadviewer.Viewer {ROOTDIR/$1}"

The update the extensions in er_registry.txt by removing any previous entries for DJVU and CBZ viewers and then update the entry for MOBIPOCKET to add the new file extensions.

[MOBIPOCKET]
category=viewer
arguments=<FILENAME>
exec=/home/intent/runmobi.sh
xResourceName=intent
channel=15
extensions=prc;PRC;pdb;PDB;mobi;MOBI;cbz;CBZ;cbr;CBR;djvu;DJVU;rtf;RTF

I'm going ahead and claiming rtf and cbr at this point.

Enjoy!

[tororebelde]

Awesome!! Congratulations Scotty1024. This is great news to start the week. I'm going to download the package and try things out.

Great stuff.

[nekokami]

Does the launcher look at er_registry.txt, or does it associate the filetypes with applications internally? I'm wondering because I'd like to default HTML, TXT, and some other types to fbreader.

[scotty1024]

Here is the Average Joe installer!

Extract ZIP file onto an MMC/CF/USB device or onto your iLiad's internal memory.

You will should now be able to find an entry saying "Install Mobipocket Viewer Booster Pack."

Click on it, lights blink and the entry changes to read "Remove Mobipocket Viewer Booster Pack."

You will need to reboot to associate the new file types with the booster pack viewers.

Enjoy!

[templario]

So this must be for me, thanks a lot, i´m enjoying a lot my Iliad and that´s thanks to all the developers (i don´t want to name them since i sure will forget someone) that make this "programs" available for Average Joes like me.

Thanks again Scotty.

Jose

[scotty1024]

Originally Posted by nekokami

Does the launcher look at er_registry.txt, or does it associate the filetypes with applications internally? I'm wondering because I'd like to default HTML, TXT, and some other types to fbreader.

Associations are set by er_registry.txt.

One thing to be aware of, the registry upgrades can make multiple copies of the FBREADER section in your er_registry.txt file. You may need to remove duplicates and then set the extensions you want bound to fbreader.

[nekokami]

Ok, thanks!

[narve]

Hi Scotty, although I don't have time to do any real programming on the iLiad right now I decided to take a look at the source code - but the project failed to open. Which version of Netbeans and Java do you use, and do you have any special modules/configuration/something?

[scotty1024]

Originally Posted by narve

Hi Scotty, although I don't have time to do any real programming on the iLiad right now I decided to take a look at the source code - but the project failed to open. Which version of Netbeans and Java do you use, and do you have any special modules/configuration/something?

I use Emacs 22.1.50 hand configured and compiled from CVS.
I use the JDK 1.5.0_07 supplied by Apple Inc.
I use the build.sh with GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0) in Terminal, both supplied by Apple Inc.

I'm a "Command Line" kinda guy.

[narve]

Originally Posted by scotty1024

I use Emacs 22.1.50 hand configured and compiled from CVS.
I use the JDK 1.5.0_07 supplied by Apple Inc.
I use the build.sh with GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0) in Terminal, both supplied by Apple Inc.

I'm a "Command Line" kinda guy.

I sort of figured - so I was surprised when I saw the netbeans artifacts. But there are netbeans project files and ant build files -- but you don't use them?

[scotty1024]

I use Ant myself but in this case the Lizard Tech project's build.sh makes it easier for Unix based casual developers: no IDE to install, not ant to get working.

If you are using a Mac all the developers tools needed are pre-installed by Apple.

[scotty1024]

Does anyone want DJVU/CBZ zoom or would you rather have a Java web browser/PDF viewer & annotation tool first?

[azerty]

Are there Java-based pdf vieuwers out there? I really miss the search function. A textfield to enter a string or page number would be sufficient as for a GUI.
I was astonished about the speed with which you,scotty, ported the viewers to Java.

[edit] This could be a starting point? http://www.jpedal.org/viewer.php

[nekokami]

Being able to annotate on non-PDF documents (and search PDF docs) would be very nice.

[henkvdg]

Originally Posted by azerty

Are there Java-based pdf vieuwers out there? I really miss the search function. A textfield to enter a string or page number would be sufficient as for a GUI.
I was astonished about the speed with which you,scotty, ported the viewers to Java.

[edit] This could be a starting point? http://www.jpedal.org/viewer.php

Here is one with search function to look at (commercial)
http://www.icesoft.com/products/demos_icepdf.html