Req for devs: assign another function to goodreads button.

[Barty]

I don't use goodreads so that button is useless to me. It'd be great to be able to assign a different function to it, like toggle wifi.

[brianinmaine]

What have you tried so far? Is your device jailbroken? Can you ssh in? Do you want to do any of the work or do you want 'someone else' to do it for you?

I don't have a 'Goodreads' button on my touch, what is it, anyway?

[eschwartz]

Originally Posted by brianinmaine

I don't have a 'Goodreads' button on my touch, what is it, anyway?

It's a PW upgrade, us touch users don't have it (yet).

It lets you use some of the integration features between the Kindle Platform and Goodreads.

Here's a picture from the product page, note the top button that looks like a "g":

Spoiler:

@barty, this should be the same idea as when people changed the store icon to open the browser, see here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=178752

[Barty]

Originally Posted by eschwartz

@barty, this should be the same idea as when people changed the store icon to open the browser, see here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=178752

Thanks. That'll give me some place to start.

[Barty]

in pw2, /usr/share/webkit-1.0/pillow/javascripts/search_bar.js has actions for 'badge' and 'discovery' changing neither of which did anything to change the goodreads button, so I tried the action for 'store' instead.

seems like this should work

        store: function () {
            //nativeBridge.setLipcProperty(M, "start", B);
           // disable wifi
            nativeBridge.setLipcProperty("com.lab126.cmd", "wirelessEnable", 0);
            nativeBridge.dismissChrome();
        },

but does nothing. any hint is appreciated.

this below DOES work, so I'm in the right area

nativeBridge.setLipcProperty("com.lab126.winmgr", "orientationLock", "L");

[Barty]

ok, I figured out a couple of things

1/ it should be

nativeBridge.setIntLipcProperty("com.lab126.cmd", "wirelessEnable", 0);

(duh)

2/ changing

discovery: function () { 
  ... 
}

only affects the goodreads button in the home screen.

I still don't know what badge does.

anyway, this is what I ended up doing

        store: function () {
            /*
            // original
            nativeBridge.setLipcProperty(M, "start", V);
            */
            if (nativeBridge.getIntLipcProperty("com.lab126.cmd", "wirelessEnable")!=0) {
                nativeBridge.setIntLipcProperty("com.lab126.cmd", "wirelessEnable", 0);
            } else {
                nativeBridge.setLipcProperty(M, "start", B);
            }
            nativeBridge.dismissChrome();
        },

this changes store button to turn off wifi if it is on and open store if wifi is off.

I should mention this is PW2 5.4.2. the code is minified and obfuscated. I used http://jsbeautifier.org/ to make it readable. seems to work with no adverse effects.