November 28, 2006
12:53 AM

RikReader 1.1 is ready with just one new feature*: Newspaper view.


Newspaper View:

Pressing F2 will toggle between the two-pane Newspaper view and the three-pane Standard view. The Newspaper view shows unread items, oldest first, in a multi-column paged layout. Pressing Space will mark the current item as read and move to the next unread item. Pressing F5 will refresh the current view, any unread items will be removed.

Current Issues:

Apologies to Tablet users, I'm still thinking how best to expose these features without shortcut keys.

The Newspaper view is dynamic, this has the consequence that new items can sometimes be inserted before the current reading position, pushing the current item onto the next page. I'm still deciding how best to deal with this - ideally new items would only be added to the end of the document, but this has some architectural issues.

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