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dumbledore / AlbiteREADER

A feature-rich e-book reader for the Java Mobile platform. Currently works with txt, xhtml and epub files. Supported features include touch scrolling, images, styling and multilingual hyphenation, on-touch dictionaries, units converter, table of contents. Uses the Droid Serif font through it's own font implementation scheme.
http://albite.org/reader_j2me
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Option to disable screen rotation on HD version #201

Closed kazuoteramoto closed 13 years ago

kazuoteramoto commented 13 years ago

My phone have a somewhat too much sensible accelerometer (but only when not needed) and when screen changes orientation its flash a white screen that make me blind when reading with lights off at my bed. And when I'm laying down on my bed I constantly change positions so I constantly get blind with a rotated screen =[.

If this change don't introduce to much code and be easy enough to implement, can I ask for it? I'm using the AlbiteReader HD version 2.2.

Or what about a option to lock the current orientation? But I think this is will introduce too much interface changes.

Thanks, Kazuo

PS. AlbiteREADER is the most awesome program I have on my phone. I can't thank enough for the work done on it.

dumbledore commented 13 years ago

Have you got a Nokia device by some chance? If so, it can be easily remedied.

As to the white background, you've got a point, sry. Can't cope with all the details, there's just too little time. :/

kazuoteramoto commented 13 years ago

Yes a Nokia 5530.

And forget about the white background, with this device I'm happy that it don't explode =].

dumbledore commented 13 years ago

Haha. Well, if it exploded I would've worried indeed. You know, I've done a lot of testing in the period of six months. This is confirmed by the fact that this is issue #201. :-)

As to the accelerometer thingy. Generally, Albite does not support autorotation, this is Symbian's doing. What it does is, it just notifies the app that the screen size changed. Therefore, there's no way to disable autorotation from within Albite, i.e. to do it interactively. The only way is to change an attribute in the app's manifest and do it once and for all. I'm not sure if that would be OK for you, as it would completely disable the accelerometer for Albite, but at the very least, Albite supports screen rotation from the menus (main menu -> Screen mode). If it's OK, read on.

If you're geeky enough to use GitHub and write in Python, I bet you can do it with just little help on my side. First of all, you might not know it, but .jars are actually a .ZIP file with a manifest. So what you should do is:

  1. Unzip AlbiteReaderHD-2.2.jar
  2. Open META-INF/MANIFEST.MF in a text editor
  3. Add this line to the file and save: Nokia-MIDlet-App-Orientation: portrait.
  4. Zip again and change the extension to .jar
  5. Done.

P.S. Have you looked at my other project: AnkSteer, a.k.a. Flypad?

dumbledore commented 13 years ago

Forgot to ask you. Are you by any chance Japanese? I hope I'm not being impertinent, but I'm curious, you know :))

kazuoteramoto commented 13 years ago

I'm not sure if that would be OK for you, as it would completely disable the accelerometer for Albite [...] So what you should do is

Done. Perfect, its ok for me, as this is exactly what I needed. Issue closed.

P.S. Have you looked at my other project: AnkSteer, a.k.a. Flypad?

Yes I have, and I found it genial. But I'm not playing too much lately =[.

Are you by any chance Japanese?

Not really, I'm Brazilian but my mother family is Japanese.