Flashbook - new eBook tools for TI-83+
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FloppusMaximus


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Posted: 22 Aug 2008 08:43:23 pm    Post subject:
Hi, everybody. Cross-posting here because nobody's around on DS.

I'm here to announce the beta release of... well, in a way it's one of my oldest TI calculator projects, but in its current incarnation none of the code is more than a year old.

Flashbook is a set of tools for creating eBooks for the TI-83+/84+. While there are quite a number of ways of creating and viewing text files, there hasn't been (released, to my knowledge) anything comparable to Flashbook: compressed text stored in a standalone Flash App, with a nice, fast, easy-to-use reader, and basic international text support.

So give it a try and tell me what you think. I'm calling this a beta version because there are still a few minor bugs to work out, but it should be quite usable at this point. I would greatly appreciate it if you folks would eBookify a few public-domain texts, test them out, give them to your friends, and so forth.

I would also be eternally grateful if somebody could provide detailed instructions (or better yet, a binary package) for Mac OS X users. (Yes, it's GTK+; what can I say? All the cross-platform toolkits suck in their own ways.)

>> http://flashbook.sf.net/ <<
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cjgone
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Posted: 22 Aug 2008 11:15:55 pm    Post subject:
Sweet.. omg it's floppusmaximus, i've heard of you from the wiki ti page!
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elfprince13
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Posted: 23 Aug 2008 08:56:23 pm    Post subject:
FloppusMaximus wrote:
Hi, everybody.  Cross-posting here because nobody's around on DS.

I'm here to announce the beta release of... well, in a way it's one of my oldest TI calculator projects, but in its current incarnation none of the code is more than a year old.

Flashbook is a set of tools for creating eBooks for the TI-83+/84+. While there are quite a number of ways of creating and viewing text files, there hasn't been (released, to my knowledge) anything comparable to Flashbook: compressed text stored in a standalone Flash App, with a nice, fast, easy-to-use reader, and basic international text support.

So give it a try and tell me what you think. I'm calling this a beta version because there are still a few minor bugs to work out, but it should be quite usable at this point. I would greatly appreciate it if you folks would eBookify a few public-domain texts, test them out, give them to your friends, and so forth.

I would also be eternally grateful if somebody could provide detailed instructions (or better yet, a binary package) for Mac OS X users. (Yes, it's GTK+; what can I say? All the cross-platform toolkits suck in their own ways.)

>> http://flashbook.sf.net/ <<
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wow, that's great Smile one of the last couple of "killer apps" I've really been needing for my calcuator. Talk to Will over on Revsoft about an OS X build, he did a FANTASTIC job with WabbitEmu
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Taricorp


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Posted: 23 Aug 2008 10:06:33 pm    Post subject:
Wow, it's Floppus again. I haven't seen you around in.. forever, if you believe my wild hyperbole.

If I had any space on my calculator (83+ BE ftl) and anything to read, I'd be using it. Oh well. I think I'll fire up PTI and take some nice animated screenshots of it in action anyway.

EDIT: well, that didn't work at all. 'The application failed to initialize properly'. (Vista Ultimate x64)

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FloppusMaximus


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Posted: 24 Aug 2008 06:01:06 pm    Post subject:
Ouch! Any idea why? I only tested it on Windows XP.
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asdf


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Posted: 24 Aug 2008 11:14:13 pm    Post subject:
I just checked it out on Ubuntu and "eBookified" Mark Twain's "On the Decay of the Art of Lying". Is there any place you wanted to gather them all?
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Chasney913


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Posted: 25 Aug 2008 10:59:27 am    Post subject:
Yeah, I got a "failed to initialize properly" error too.
I'm on XP.
0xc000007b was the error code, if it helps.
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TheStorm


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Posted: 25 Aug 2008 12:48:43 pm    Post subject:
I'll give this a try on my 64bit vista though I still have no way to send it to my calc, at least until I get a working nix dual boot(a you arch linux I like you but hate you at the same time.)
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FloppusMaximus


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Posted: 25 Aug 2008 06:02:00 pm    Post subject:
asdf wrote:
Is there any place you wanted to gather them all?
[post="126347"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]

Nowhere in particular; I suppose I could set up a tracker on the Sourceforge site if you'd like.

Chasney913 wrote:
Yeah, I got a "failed to initialize properly" error too.
I'm on XP.
0xc000007b was the error code, if it helps.
[post="126360"]<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/post]

Thanks, that's actually very helpful. I think the problem must be that I was stripping the DLLs (it reduced the size of the files a bit, and it seems to work in Wine!) I guess I never tested that on real Windows; sorry about that. I'll release a new version of the installer as soon as I get a chance to test it.
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asdf


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Posted: 25 Aug 2008 08:31:07 pm    Post subject:
Well, i guess there is already the eBooks section on ticalc.org. But anyway, everything was built nicely for me Smile
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FloppusMaximus


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Posted: 26 Aug 2008 05:07:09 pm    Post subject:
New installer, same place. Windows users, please give it another try if it didn't work the first time. Sorry about that.
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Chasney913


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Posted: 26 Aug 2008 07:01:07 pm    Post subject:
It works fine for me now, and I'm using still using XP. I'll try it on the computer that had the problem when I get a chance, but it looks like it'll work.
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FloppusMaximus


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Posted: 11 Sep 2008 05:54:38 pm    Post subject:
Just so you folks know, I'm making good progress; the second beta release should be out soonish. I wasn't intending to add any major new features before the final 1.0 release, but then I discovered libhyphen... so yes, Flashbook will now be able to hyphenate eBooks automatically. Yay! Besides that, I've made a few other improvements under the hood and squashed some bugs.

Is anybody using this? Any and all comments are welcome.
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