Developing an Ebook Reader with ACE

[chungsie]

So I recently made a lot of progress on an Ebook Reader in ace. it still needs finagling to get things as I envision for it.

My question is, what kind of features would people that would use the app for their publishing purposes?

At the moment you cannot execute any code with a book, but can pass values into the program that are then reflected back through the user interface.

Any of these ideas I have for it I would love to hear opinions on them

* being able to set a title, cover art and author name (at the moment having issues with this for formatting purposes)
* having no limits on pages or booksizes given that you don't purposely try crashing the engine with endless pages of infinite count
* the ability to use a custom background window design
* having a virtual library to organize your books installed?
* automatic amendment of books to the library upon start of the app

I'm open to other suggestions as well.

 

[TheoAllen]

Wait, I don't get it. Are you trying to make Ace opens/reads a PDF or what?

 

[chungsie]

No. it would be for opening an .rb file, that would not be able to execute anything, but pass things as predetermined by the app.

for instance, an entry may look like,

$page = Array.new
$page[0] = "Sun Champion- Kalvgv: The Woes of Birth \n Leon Sandcastle"
$page[1] = "Dedicated to my great uncle, brother to
my grandfather, and teacher to his nephews.
One of the three Legendary Ginseng hunters of
his generations."