What's new in Shell for TequilaCat BookReader 2.2.27
Nov 27, 2012
- FB2 images load much faster
- For Nokia 5800 (and other S60v5) the smooth scroll after phone rotation is fixed
- In Samsung JET model icons added for big resolution, large font in file/book lists
- Samsung touch phones don't show navigation keys by default
New in Shell for TequilaCat BookReader 2.2.24 (Nov 27, 2012)
- FB2 images support
- Shell: font size is no more restricted
- Optional vibrate on touchscreen click
- Click on info screens closes them
- Optionally removes ends of line from preformatted text files (in paragraph settings)
- Nokia 5800: fixed backlight
- Nokia 5800: correct page display after phone rotation
- Samsung touchscreen phones: can be set as widget (as palringo midlet)
- Samsung touchscreen phones: no crash on reading files
New in Shell for TequilaCat BookReader 2.2.20 (Nov 27, 2012)
- in final version: added Nokia 5800 support, updated translation and portable starter script
- Java reader menu reorganized
- in Java book, edit page margins
- in Java book, edit autoscroll delay (in milliseconds)
- autoscroll now continues after return from menu (except "goto" and "open book" actions)
- FB2 plugin in shell (so far no pictures, no chapters used), download needed
- LIT plugin in shell, download needed
- configurable paragraph offsets: spacing below and 1st line left offset (see help file for details)
- thin (2pix) position indicator is back
- new "-lang LNG" shell cmd line key to forcibly localize Shell and midlets
- less confirmations in "purge removed books" when caching enabled
- in Java reader, book list can be saved to file - useful when updating bookreader version. Open saved book list as file and it will be imported.
- new "books->purge book list" menu with many options (see help file for details)
- fixed Russian encoding autodetection in shell (in prev versions it caused 16bit app error)
- shell new look with great icons by Alexander
- in shell, new folder i18n/
- Middle East texts (Right to Left) now should be shown in Windows fonts (to be tested by native readers)
- in book/file lists, show book sizes and percentage read, optionally (don't enable FILE sizes if your phone requests access confirmations!)
- added Samsung S60 smartphones support (fixed backlight)
- fixed bug with touchscreen (cannot redefine keys) in localized java books (e.g. russian)
New in Shell for TequilaCat BookReader 2.2.17 (Nov 27, 2012)
- Multiple encodings in single java book: European, MiddleEast, Unicode LE/BE
- "Show phone stats" option in "Info" menu turns off fullscreen in info page to display phone stats: battery, signal (MIDP2 phones only)
- New "Rename book" command in "Goto" menu
- When a book file is open, if its size has changed since last open, the book is reinitialized, useful for periodically udpated texts. Optional for file caching models, "Update book size" in "File options".
- Fixed search in words with double letters, e.g. "low" could not be found in "follow"
- Fixed key scroll during smooth scroll
- Unicode prefix bytes were shown as ??, now is not shown
- Image support re-introduced (still from HTML only), GIF support added and many other bugs have been fixed
- Fixed Nokia interline space bug
- Shell: fixed reading texts from zip archives (didn't work after 2.2.8)
- Shell: configurable JAR compression level (actually no-compression makes difference only)
- Shell: on first start the shell imports settings from previous version
- Shell: For portable use, especial Shell-portable.cmd launcher file has been added
- Shell: For portable use, JAR generation path can contain environment variables (like %SystemRoot%, %AllUsersProfile%, %UserProfile%, %HomeDrive% and any other)
- Shell: redesigned font selection page, popup menu for selected font has been added
New in Shell for TequilaCat BookReader 2.2.16 (Nov 27, 2012)
- [FS] delete text file from phone memory/flash card
- fixed smooth scroll for all text directions
- fixed search, it was broken in 2.2.15
- more distinctive scrollbars
- fixed shell wrongly creating mainfest.mf instead of correct MANIFEST.MF (caused problems on some Siemens and SE)
- "show margins" option, in shell and midlet, toggles margins if they were set in shell
New in Shell for TequilaCat BookReader 2.2.15 (Nov 27, 2012)
- Shell:
- greatly improved UI (wizard-like)
- displays images! (extracted from HTML only), very initial implementation: be sure to check "Setup java book/Change Appearance/Include book images" checkbox for testing.
- portable (flash-pen ready). specify "-portable" key to store configuration in shell folder files instead of Windows registry
- actions can be assigned to touchscreen areas taps
- configurable toolbar
- lots and lots of other improvements (partially not complete)
- Midlet:
- FB2 conversion options: UTF8/UTF16 support, delete FB2 file after conversion
- fixed (hopefully) Nokia IllegalArgumentException on Windows fonts
- fixed invisible menu items on Siemens with rotated fonts
- new "change font size" (for phone fonts only)
- new "Goto max pos" displays book from the maximal read position
- fixed password lock
New in Shell for TequilaCat BookReader 2.2.13 (Nov 27, 2012)
- Specific menu font different from book font!
- File caching is optional via menu (for models where applicable)
- Search: fixed search in unicode books (case sensitive always)
- Search positions 1 line above found word
- Search: "always search from start" option
- Fixed: key in shell could not be bound to "open a menu"