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Before we talk about the program ReadThemAll, a few words about the "reader" for Palm. Reading program for Palm owe their existence to several features of Palm and its built-in applications. First, the database on the Palm - it's not a file in a general sense, it is required to transform text, and secondly, this restriction firmware MemoPad on the amount of one record. At one time, an auspicious coincidence, appeared format, which de facto has been recognized as a standard document format for Palm. It seems it was originally designed by Aportis, but I could be wrong. Despite the fact that this format supports compression of certain files on your device it is very simple. It is possible that this is what helped him win a populyarnost.Mir does not stand still and the need for users to preview files with complicated oformaleniem and formatting such as HTML or Microsoft Word, and the need to edit them, led the engineering team to invent their own formats, but nevertheless, the de facto standard means that the Doc file is supported by almost all programs. Despite the progress in computer technology, the process of reading e-books are not much different from reading a paper book - the same page, the same paging, but with the buttons. To make here is something new, the developers are making a program to automatically read or paging someone how convenient it is called. The most obvious method used in most programs - is the auto-scrolling. With a certain periodicity text is shifted by a certain number of points up, adding the bottom line as necessary. By the way, do not consider for a serious statement, but paper books might well be too is also available in rolls, and the consumer would have two coils, one of which was fastened to a motor with adjustable speed. When I first tried to include auto-scrolling to a certain program CSpotRun, I noticed two unpleasant features, later confirmed by many people. The first relates to the hardware. I do not know how the later models, but on my Palm IIIxe text in the process of movement is shaking very tiring thereby eyes. The second is related to features of the reader. When you read, using this method, the eyes are forced together in a horizontal motion associated with reading the lines and move more, and together with the text up, but after reading this line to move to much greater distance down. to the next line. Perhaps this can be used to, but I could not and refused to read such a method is practically the next day. There were other attempts relizovat automatic reading. For example, the program PanaRead. There's the basic idea is that at a certain rate me with the words printed in large type. Despite various improvements, such as slowing down the show at the meeting point or the end of a paragraph, a way needs to be improved and I would not call it too comfortable. In addition, large print was only the Latin and the question to the developer about the possibility of adding other fonts, he replied that there is none. By the way, but then he mentioned that the programmer on this project, according to him was Russian. So for me the auto-theme to scroll has been closed until such time as discussing the potential ways of scrolling with a colleague, did not appear the next idea. With an approximate speed of reading the sequence of lines of text from top to bottom. Upon reaching the last line at the bottom of the screen from top to continue the withdrawal. But it is necessary to read a few lines before. To this end, the user is given a landmark - a small corner, moving to the right of the text. All of this gives an unexpected effect. Reading is very similar to normal when the lines are located sequentially on the page but at the moment when the user in the ordinary case, press the button to display the next page and move upward glance, he should just look up to transfer. To distinguish between new and old lines in place of their division is shown dotted line. If you have a specific need, it mozhzhno off as well, and index.Disabling allows the user to choose their own style of reading. In the process of development, when more or less can be opened with the program files, I read a few major books and came up with some observations. First, during prolonged reading eye gets used to the speed and methodically tends to increase. I remember that at the end of a novel she has reached all of some transcendental values, which I have for some reason can not reach. But the novel was very interesting and perhaps it is related to this. Second, the small screen Palm'a so many possible broken-killed for a small amount of text to climb on it, in this case, wins its size. This is due to the fact that the ordinary reading of the lines are fairly long and the height of the page - too. Therefore, the eye must travel quite long distances. Here, and in either case has to do gorazdno smaller eye movements, but perhaps that little bit more often. There is still notable for one thing. If we choose the largest font, line, consisting now of the Russian language for an average of two words can be read without any gorizontaelnogo eye movements that can once again significantly increase the speed. A few words about the interface and program management. It is obvious that the management of the "reader" should be double - both with the stylus, and only with the buttons. Originally I also wanted to eliminate the use of four buttons launch which, in my opinion, should always perform their basic functions. Therefore, the result was a somewhat unusual way to control that not everyone fell in love, especially the current polzovtelyam CSpotRun'a. There is a pop-up panel that displays the current information - the position of a percentage rate and the current time and, in addition to signal its emergence in the transition mode, "pause." From the reading mode to pause mode shift by pressing "up". Further pressing the "up" reduces reading speed, remaining in the pause mode. Pressing the "down" returns to "read" and further pressing down increases the speed of reading without indication. This choice of operations related to the fact that it seemed logical to make a complete stop when the user does not have time and do not stop reading when there is a certain reserve and speed can be increased. In addition to the above keyboard controls are the other possibilities, starting with the menu, zakanichaya pressing the stylus. For users of Sony Clie provides management with Jog-Dial. From the opportunities presented in other "reader", I realized until just search. In fact, many would like to see here and bookmark and more easy to navigate, especially when the documents are very large and the step of one percent moves in too great a distance. Really would add to the site of discovery of documents on external media, if I may say so, MemoryStick example. In addition, the letters come with an improved self myself scrolling or slightly alter it. All these proposals, I am very glad, because I think that together we will make the program even better. The only thing most of the proposals contradict the request to keep the program size small. The program is called ReadThemAll (Read them all), although there were other options, perhaps more successful. When the idea came up, I have not had experience developing for Palm. Therefore, he sent a proposal, first author of a freely-available software CSpotRun, and then at razrabotchkov iSilo. The lack of response in the first case and too standard in the second, made me learn to develop a Palm. ReadThemAll falch.net developed using version 2.1, which was then free for noncommercial use, the current version 2.5 - 30-day trial. Incidentally, a few words about it, this suspension of prc-tools (gcc, pilrc), appearance and functionality is very reminiscent of Microsoft Developer Studio (although she herself had written in my beloved Delphi). I personally I liked it a lot more than CodeWarrior.In conclusion, I say again, that despite its simplicity, the reader for the Palm may qualify for entry into the five most commonly used by the user, because in my experience I can say that after the first few weeks of the wild delight of owning this wonderful device when I put on it almost everything and thought I had done with the aid of it something beautiful and wonderful in the end went mostly to consume information, rather than its creation. A book - it is not only a source of information, but also food for the soul, so read more and despite the myriad of books, ProchitayteIhVse! (ReadThemAll) Authors translation:
Maxim Vlasov