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ridge · Member

http://www.geocities.com/ridgeren/creader.html

yiming · Member

ridge, it works. it's really fantastics! Very Happy

i never thought this is possible. now i can read all those chinese e-books using my rex!!

it's a pity that version 1.0 can't work with adder. i've only tried version 1.0a. as you say, it's a bit slow. the display speed is slower than my reading speed, if only it can be a little bit faster.

for rexer who can chinese, this add-in is a must!

ridge · Member

Actually I don't suggest people use 1.0a because it's really too slow. It also missed some features for 8k limit.
I am using 1.0 by myself, which is much faster.
1.0 displays English better than 1.0a because I put in a fix for the DsTextWidth system call, so I can remove adder and cMemo, leave 7 slots for other addins.

ridge · Member

I am still looking for a better solution to store the Chinese font but keep those empty pages for adder.
If anyone has a smaller font library than 12x12, please let me know. I heard there is 10x10 one on Palms.
Any suggestions would also be helpful.

jack ng · Member

Hi Ridge,

Just want to express my thanks for your superb chinese add-in. Reading chinese e-books is the one thing that I wish do on my Rex 6000 but which I thought was not a realistic expectation. You have increased the worth of the Rex 6000 to me such that I will probably have to acquire a 3rd unit as a 2nd backup.

Thanks a zillion !

yiming · Member

hi Ridge, 10 x 10 font may be too small, 12 x 12 is surprisingly readable. of course it will be better if it is 14 x 14, but it will take up too much memory, i guess.

i remember reading a post by Chris(?), saying that there are other unused memory space in Rex. not sure if this is true.

anyway, research shows that the 3755 characters in class 1 of GB2312 cover 99% of the characters used in normal text. the 3088 characters in class 2 will increase the coverage to 99.99%. as such, a solution is to load only the 3755 characters into the firmware, and the 3088 characters can be stored in memo, so that there's space for Adder. if space is not enough, the Russian, Japanese characters and other seldom used symbols can also be left out from the character set.

is this idea feasible? Rolling Eyes

GPF · Member

some old mail by Chris:

yiming · Member

yiming · Member

hi ridge

i've tried both versions of the cReader. as promised, ver 1.0 is fast. i also found out that it is incompatible with Chris' Calpatch. Calpatch will cause some characters to be overwritten. have not try other patches yet.

is it possible to make it compatible with all the patches?

and i've some suggestions which i hope you will consider:
1. can you add a scroll bar? if one wants to go to the end of a text file, the only way now is to use the down arrow.
2. the file list is not arranged in alpha order, can it be changed?

thanks so much for creating this most useful add-in.

ridge · Member

1.0a Updated to fix the problem in DsTextWidth and display English better.

ridge · Member

Hi Yiming
You mentioned that only 3755 characters in class one. I got a library contains more than 8000, how to get the class one from it? The are not just the first 3755 one.

Thanks!
Jian

yiming · Member

hi ridge

the whole GB-3212 character set contains 7445 symbols and characters. it is divided into 94 code pages. each code page contains 94 symbols/characters. code page 01 - 03 are punctuation marks, mathematics symbols and English alphabets, 04 - 05, japanese characters, 06 - Greek, 07 - russian, 08 - zhuyin fuhao, 09 - table components. 10 - 15 empty.

chinese characters start from page 16 - 87 (72 code pages). 16 - 55 contain class one characters of 3755. they are arranged in hanyu pinyin order. pls note code page 55 has only 89 characters. page 56 - 87 contains class two 3088 characters. 88 - 94 empty. class two characters are arranged in order of radical.

the codes for GB-3212 are from A1A1H - F7FEH.

these are the little i know. the info is also available at:
http://yoneda-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/~zhou/GB-HZ-Big5-JIS.html

the whole GB-3212 characters can be viewed at:
http://yoneda-www.cs.titech.ac.jp/~zhou/QuWei_Table.gb

hope to see the cReader compatible with adder soon. thanks. Laughing

ridge · Member

Thanks for these useful information. I will try to figure out a better way.
If I can use less space and keep the adder, maybe I will just modify the cMemo. The reason I create my own is cMemo takes too many addin slots.

snom · Member

Hi, all
cause I can not visit geocities.com in China,
so,
can somebody be so kindly send me one copy of the content and addin in
the following url to my email [email protected]

http://www.geocities.com/ridgeren/creader.html

many thanks.

jack ng · Member

Hi Ridge,

I've been using your chinese add-in heavily and wish to report a potential bug.

When I reach the last page of a document and continue to press the down arrow key, the c-reader jump to the middle of the next document. I believe the expectation is to display the start of the next document, or if not possible, stay put at the last page. Hope you could look into and help to fix this issue.

Other than this problem, and actually even with this problem, your chinese add-in is absolutely great ! I'm getting my third REX today because of this add-in.

regards