Thread: New FBReader build in Extras-Devel
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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2010-01-11 , 23:09
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#142
Originally Posted by fms View Post
Well, the way you are explaining it, it sounds like you are simply using it wrong. FBReader provides several ways of navigation, see if any of these work for you:

1. Table of contents, if the book has one.
2. Scrollbar, which is ugly so I have it disabled.
3. "Old style" status bar that shows page number and a book progress bar which you touch to jump through the book.
4. Page number entry field which I had to disable in Maemo5 due to lack of toolbar space.
5. Undo/redo buttons that let you quickly switch to positions you previously navigated to. Think of them as autobookmarks.

So, one of these should work for you. Personally, I use #1 and #3.
fms, thanks for your reply. I would like to be able to use #3, but when I click on the "book progress bar," it just jumps to the next page of text, the same as if I were to touch anywhere else in the bottom half of the page. So I can't "scroll" or jump forward more than a single page, and I can't jump backwards at all.

I suppose I'm doing something wrong or have some Preference set in a way that causes problems, but I can't figure out what the problem is.

As for #4, are you saying that direct navigation to a page number is somehow accessible, just not from the toolbar? I can't find that method either.

So, answers as to how to do #3 and #4 would be greatly appreciated.