03-03-2010, 02:22 PM | #1 |
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Rotate direction
I am just wondering if the rotate direction (clockwise or counterclockwise) can be configured or set or hacked for the 800SG. The default way of rotating makes the flipbar access more difficult, if it rotates the other way, the flipbar would be more handy in landscape mode. Plus when the PDF zoom (auto fit width/view in landscape mode) is available in the upcoming firmware release, this rotation setting would make more sense.
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03-03-2010, 11:41 PM | #2 |
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rotate needs to be able to put any of the 4 sides at the bottom.
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03-06-2010, 04:55 AM | #3 |
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It's just a matter of changing dr.ini. But 'upside-down' is not supported.
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03-06-2010, 10:13 AM | #4 |
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i want to use the flip bar with my left or right hand in the portrait orientation. that's the whole ergonomic design point of having the controls on the default "side" of the device. it's just one more baffling decision made by irex with this device.
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03-08-2010, 11:28 AM | #5 | |
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I'd prefer counter-clockwise, so the flipbar is on top. Last edited by mgmueller; 03-08-2010 at 11:40 AM. |
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03-08-2010, 12:24 PM | #6 |
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I would expect
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/apps/er/sys/display/rotation=clockwise Code:
/apps/er/sys/display/rotation=anticlockwise If it doesn't then the upcoming 2.0 release will fix that, because it does work on my development version... See also ereader.schemas from the sysd sources. |
03-08-2010, 01:34 PM | #7 | |
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will 2.0 support width fit landscape?
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03-08-2010, 05:33 PM | #8 |
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Looking at the sysd source, would modifying system.c to support xrandr 'flip' and adjusting the wacom sensor mapping for the 4th orientation be all that's required, or is there other code I'm not seeing that makes hard-coded decisions based on the device being in portrait orientation? How about modifying sysd plus startup so that 'portrait' is always 'flip' (e.g. not adding a 4th "flip" state to the enum, just redefining the default to be flip)
holding the reader in my right hand is more natural and I would be fine with this being a must-swap-sysd-version-and-reboot kind of solution |
03-08-2010, 05:43 PM | #9 |
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How about attacking this from the other direction. Instead of getting the device to flip the content, is there software that will take a PDF and save it with all of the pages "upside down" as images rather than text. That way, as far as the DR800 knows, it's just displaying a normal PDF.
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03-08-2010, 05:51 PM | #10 |
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not a bad idea for pdfs, but I also have a number of epubs and I'd like to read this way.
from the command line Code:
pdftk in.pdf cat 1-endS output out.pdf |
03-08-2010, 10:47 PM | #11 |
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I'm having trouble recompiling sysd due to dependencies right now, but the attached program is a quick and dirty solution. Once I can get sysd built you'll be able to set a value in dr.ini for portrait to always be 'normal' or 'flipped'
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03-09-2010, 03:18 PM | #12 |
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Attached is a diff against the released sysd sources which adds a 'flip' mode to the DR800. I have only run it in the emulator thus far, and while the actual flip functionality works fine something with gconf is awry causing the falue specified in dr.ini to never get set in gconf/erconfig. Anyone more experienced than I at things gconf? What is needed to tell the system that the schema has changed?
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gconftool-2 --install-schema-file=/etc/gconf/schemas/ereader.schemas |
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03-09-2010, 04:21 PM | #14 |
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ah cool! I had tried that at one point, but I think that was before I realized that writes are very delayed in the simulator and just ^C-ing qemu was making my edits disappear. Appears to work beautifully in the simulator now.
So the big question before I install this on my $400 toy (and release a build others can try) is: does reflashing the firmware kick off from redboot or does linux need to successfully boot, or even more worrisome linux needs to boot and sysd need to be running? I'd like to not brick my reader before the credit card bill for it even arrives |
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