Hi all,
The whole reason I got the voyage over other Kindle e-readers is my preference for using them to turn pages over touching the screen. As I read, I tend to touch the screen all the time, accidentally, and it pretty much makes reading on the device untenable. Unfortunately, the Voyage uses both the touchscreen *and* the buttons to turn pages. It was unworkable.
I tried out the Kindle Untouchable extension (which was made in 2012 for the Kindle Touch) and it kind-of worked for the voyage, but only kind of.
Anyway, heavily borrowing from the author's original code, I reworked the extension to capitalize on the features of the Voyage. Using this hack, the buttons work as usual, but if you press and *hold* the 'previous page' button, it turns off the touchscreen ability. The buttons still work fine! And, if you see a word you need to look up, or a passage you need to highlight/annotate, you can just press and hold the button again to turn it back on.
In addition to it's exploiting the Voyage's extra buttons, it fixes a bug in the old extension: the way the old extension went forward or back a page was by sending a fake "touch" event to the device. The region this touch event "touched" usually lead to the device to advance (or go back) a page but if it happened to "click" on a link, it would follow the link. This extension, instead, sends a fake button click event that the device knows how to unambiguously interpret.
Use it with KUAL. The source code is in the extension.
PS: compiling X11 for the kindle cross compiler was a NIGHTMARE!!
The whole reason I got the voyage over other Kindle e-readers is my preference for using them to turn pages over touching the screen. As I read, I tend to touch the screen all the time, accidentally, and it pretty much makes reading on the device untenable. Unfortunately, the Voyage uses both the touchscreen *and* the buttons to turn pages. It was unworkable.
I tried out the Kindle Untouchable extension (which was made in 2012 for the Kindle Touch) and it kind-of worked for the voyage, but only kind of.
Anyway, heavily borrowing from the author's original code, I reworked the extension to capitalize on the features of the Voyage. Using this hack, the buttons work as usual, but if you press and *hold* the 'previous page' button, it turns off the touchscreen ability. The buttons still work fine! And, if you see a word you need to look up, or a passage you need to highlight/annotate, you can just press and hold the button again to turn it back on.
In addition to it's exploiting the Voyage's extra buttons, it fixes a bug in the old extension: the way the old extension went forward or back a page was by sending a fake "touch" event to the device. The region this touch event "touched" usually lead to the device to advance (or go back) a page but if it happened to "click" on a link, it would follow the link. This extension, instead, sends a fake button click event that the device knows how to unambiguously interpret.
Use it with KUAL. The source code is in the extension.
PS: compiling X11 for the kindle cross compiler was a NIGHTMARE!!