newLisp e-text reader with GTK

[pjot]

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/">http://www.gtk-server.org/



Enjoy!



Peter

[pjot]

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]

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/">http://www.gutenberg.net/



Regards



Peter