newLisp e-text reader with GTK

pjot · Post by **pjot** » Sun Sep 26, 2004 1:00 pm

Posted a newLisp e-text reader.

Features:
-Genuine menu structure and statusbar
-Using FILE_CHOOSER, FONT_CHOOSER and MESSAGE_DIALOG
-Asynchronous loading of (large) ASCII files
-Online lookup of words using DICT protocol specs (RFC2229)
-Memorizes last configuration
-Works on Linux and Windows with same source

Screenshots and source available at http://www.gtk-server.org/

Enjoy!

Peter

pjot · Post by **pjot** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:19 pm

New version. Features:

-Handles Gutenberg ZIP files automatically
-Correct conversion to UTF-8 -> now German characters will be shown correctly also
-Line wrap option
-Code optimizations

Same place to download the source.

pjot · Post by **pjot** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 8:49 pm

The e-text reader has reached version 1.4. More features and bugfixes:

- Boxes creating layouts of mainwindow and DICT client
- Changed resize policy of mainwindow and DICT client
- Improved speed when loading a large text
- Change to text.lsp dir when reading/writing cfg file
- Added key accelerators for main menu
- Bugfix: empty text into entry's is checked now
- Bugfix: fixed "libgnomevfs-CRITICAL" error
- Bugfix: apply current font to text after loading
- Bugfix: directory's with spaces will be retrieved OK now
- More code optimizations
- Implemented FIND option
- Some small lay-out changes
- Changed to STDIN communication interface
- Increased loading speed of texts even more
- Bugfix: read lines counter works now

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Remember to use the latest GTK-server 1.2 build 2 to run the reader. Also newLisp 8.2.3 or higher is required.

Free e-texts can be found at http://www.gutenberg.net/

Regards

Peter