Status: beta test
Current Version: 1.2b
(Coming soon)
Usefulness and Reliability
Since elibrary does not do any file editing, and manages files that are all in the public domain, there is less reason for concern about reliability. Even so, it doesn't crash on me, even when i do utterly stupid things like telling it to download ALL texts (there are thousands of files). There is the Win98 issue mentioned below, but that is not critical, since all that happens is the background goes all flat white.
This program is really designed to be used with Book Reader, as the Gutenberg files really are heinously ugly when you download them as plain text.
Known Bugs
- Resource leak under Win98- appears that continuous BRUSH allocation (for cosmetic reasons ie gradient fill) is eventually reaching some upper limit, so i should either disable it or work out whether there's an easy way of fixing it.
- Minor Annoying parsing error - latest Gutenberg lists are showing up with a small number of incorrect author and title fields. Once again i will have to refine the algorithm to attempt to read a file that appears to have been written for neither humans nor computers.
Still To Come
- store display settings
- work out convenient method of flushing "Recently Read" cache
- add extra panes or tabs for local and found files, because one big list is just a bit too clumsy
- add custom actions for text conversions using 3rd party tools
- Dispense with log window's 32K limit - (this is not harmful, it just stops writing to the log)
History
- Thursday, December 18, 2003 - beta 1.08 released
- updated expiry date
- Monday, June 30, 2003 - beta 1.07 released
- gz support added internally
- modified find functionality to be a step by step search using F3 instead of doing a big filter. Matching items are marked in a different color.
- Thursday, February 27, 2003 - beta 1.062 released
- Mouse wheel support (whoops)
- beta 1.061 released
- implement new fast list control
- handle relocation of database
- handle server address change
- improve index parsing, reading extra author and title info
- Added filter for duplicate file names
- Added Menu option for opening Store folder, to make easier access to the raw text files.