Hi Mirko,
this is really a good news.
Hope to see a tar.gz soon to test on my computer.
Regards
Emmanuel
Le mer 03/02/10 10:06, "Mirko Lindner" mirko(a)sharism.cc a écrit:
Hey there,
I just wanted to give you a little progress report on vido [1].
After the openzim developer-meeting [2] quite a few changes were made
to the format to allow the usage of zim files even on limited devices
such as the Ben NanoNote.
Last night, after finally finding the right file, I managed to get
the full german wikipedia (without images) to run nicely. The file is
on the openzim server in their download section[3].
There are quite a few neat functions in vido. Please be patient with
it, responses are not instant, but it does what you ask it after 1-2s
at the most. There are still a few quirks here and there. Scrolling is
not optimal, the way links can be selected deserves another look etc
etc. But the foundation works.
One word abotu the zim files. Currently there are only german wiki
files that have been tested. I will dive into the mechanism of
creating other zim files as soon as I get back from FOSDEM. I have
been told there is a process for that already, but it is not well
documented. We are also in talks with the Wikimedia Foundation and
other wikis to get them to publish wiki files themselves.
If anyones feels like diving into the code to make it better, faster,
nicer please go ahead. Just contact me for git access and such.
Once again a big yay for the openzim project!
Ok, here a small list of what vido can do:
- open and display contents of a zim file (on the console):
vido [PATH TO FILE]
- get a random article (in vido):
ctrl + r
- search for an article (in vido):
ctrl + s
- go back to last article (in vido):
ctrl + b
- go to next article (if you went back before) (in vido):
ctrl + f
- display your history (in vido):
ctrl + h
- go to top (in vido):
ctrl + t
To move through links in an article use TAB. If you only want to
scroll use the arrow keys.
Note: If you scroll the cursor doesnt move, which means that if you
tab after you scrolled for a while the display will go back to the
last link you selected.
/mirko
[1]
http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/vido/ [1]
[2]
http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2009-2 [2]
[3]
http://openzim.org/ZIM_File_Archive [3]
Links:
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[1]
http://projects.qi-hardware.com/index.php/p/vido/
[2]
http://openzim.org/Developer_Meetings/2009-2
[3]
http://openzim.org/ZIM_File_Archive