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Activities/Read SD Comics (view source)
Revision as of 15:09, 19 October 2010
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Unfortunately, the SD card isn't good for much because Sugar works with the Journal and the Journal is on internal storage only. Since internal storage has to hold the operating system, etc. you have only about 500 megabytes to hold your stuff. Since a long comic book can easily be over 60 megabytes you just can't store much of a collection in the Journal. You can, however, store lots of them on an SD card.
Unfortunately, the SD card isn't good for much because Sugar works with the Journal and the Journal is on internal storage only. Since internal storage has to hold the operating system, etc. you have only about 500 megabytes to hold your stuff. Since a long comic book can easily be over 60 megabytes you just can't store much of a collection in the Journal. You can, however, store lots of them on an SD card.
The Journal Activity makes the SD card files look like part of the Journal, but they are not. They are listed in the reverse order of when they were created
The Journal Activity makes the SD card files look like part of the Journal, but they are not. They are listed in the reverse order of when they were created. You cannot rename them. You can launch View Slides to read them, but when you are done you will get a "Keep Error" and the page you left off on will not be saved.
The interface to Read SD Comics is similar to the core Read activity, which should not be surprising as the toolbar code was adapted from Read's toolbar. You can use the up and down arrows or the game controller to move from page to page.
When you use Read SD Comics the experience is much better. If you start from the Activity ring you will be prompted to select a CBZ or Zip file using a standard file selection component. When you make your selection you'll see a preview of the first page of the comic. Then you click on the "Read Comic" button at the bottom of the screen, and the path to the file you selected will be stored in the Journal and your comic will be loaded for reading.
At this point you can treat the comic as if it actually is in the Journal rather than merely linked to it. You'll have all the advantages of a Journal entry without filling up the all too limited space the Journal on the XO provides.
The interface to Read SD Comics is similar to the core Read activity, which should not be surprising as the toolbar code was adapted from Read's toolbar. You can use the up and down arrows or the game controller to move from page to page. Use plus and minus keys to zoom and unzoom the page.
== Slide Collections on the Internet ==
== Slide Collections on the Internet ==