Upcoming update v0.9.9917 (i hope released today :)) 28/9

Currently waiting for Store certification… hope released today.. minor changes..
PDF: Screen is now translated to german. There´s still noch possibility to delete anything… will come with one of the next builds.
Little improvements at the menu for selecting PDF Books playlists.
Reverse the orderBy of the Library. So, if wanted, new item can now appear at the top of the list… Hint: Reordering by drag & drop will only work when it´s not reverse ordered 🙂

Issues:
I think i forgot 2 things: to deactivate a feature for external store of WAV files for desktops. Please don´t use it, it won´t work yet!!!
and i´m working on some file deletion stuff and forgot to deactivate the logging… (only local stored, but should make it again a little slower when deleting at the library 🙂

Last Build´s issues:
– no update after player started for pic, slider and time and time… should be fix with next update 🙂
– theme setting won´t apply at the starts starts up. There was a little bug wich has overridden this settings -> Fixed.

The little change: PDF Menu is now looking like shown here:

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This is NOT included in this Build, but maybe you are waiting for this feature.. will be included in the PREMIUM PACK… INSTANT PLAY START – a first implementation.. will be more better in the future, but for this, it will do everything automaticly, and start quickly… on mobiles, you´ll have to wait for start of the player, the synthesizing itself is still in the foreground process.. a backgound task for especially this is in development.. it´s already running, but i don´t know if it´s realy ready with the update.

Sorry for Delay: v0.9.9910 is cancelled, but replaced by v0.9.9911 (rollout 24.09.)

2 day´s ago, in the published Tutorial i announced the new Build 9910. But one major bug with the RSS-Feeds, and a really little issue  in a, maybe, unused feature forced Microsoft to not certificate this Build for publishing it.
The root cause story, if you are interested, will follow below.. funny,  mysterious things :))
And with it, i fixed a lot of minor things, and it should be a really good build..
At the moment, it´s waiting for the Store Certification and i hope, you´ll get it tomorrow (24. Sep.).. 🙂

Behind the scenes 🙂 – the Update delay´s cause is still some kind of mysterious…
I changed some core things for the PDF support and usability.. nothing directly affecting this Bug´s, but different features using the same class object, the thing i changed…
And after an annoying day, i step-by-step rolled back the changes, but the issues still persisted… no clear error message forced me to debug through every line of code (the 2nd day of „groping in the dark“, i felt..
after click an RSS-Feed-Item.. (as easy as it looks, there are many hundrets of lines of code to create the readable result from such a RSS-Feed-Item).. And at the very end of the code magic, I got it!! Mysterious!! A global method i used, WORKED FOR 3 Month´s PROPERLY (xxx.GetType()) …..caused (not just this) issue.. And really crazy.. My older Phone (Lumia 530, running Windows 10 :)), used to test every Build, same App-Build, same RSS-Feed worked fine, but it´s getting really crazy: while using this phone to test (rss-import and sharing from website and news app).. after some time, it got the same issues… no special items, the SAME (exactly) items, i had no problem 2 min. before..
The fix was really easy.. i used the .GetType() just to be professional.. to use it, at the end of the day, with any kind of objects…. For TextToSpeech, in this method, i only use it with one kind of collection of objects… so i replaced it with my explicit Collection type.. DONE!!

And it may (too early, to be sure) also fix issues with sharing from Websites or the MSN-News-App… sharing context closes at the middle of the progress bar, item not imported… i had this issue sometimes, but repeating – but only on my moblies… But after the fix, it seems like this is also fixed 🙂

TextToSpeech 10 – Video-„Tutorial“, Overview, Handling & HowTo

All you need to know to use TextToSpeech 10 – Current Build: v0.9.9910
THE PDF Module is still in ALPHA stage, so there will come some significant automations and improments..  For example, currently you have to specify the header/footer (to skip lines) manually, if you want. Maybe one of the next Build´s will do it automaticly..

KNOWN issues in this Build:
– when changing from Standard-Playlist to a PDF Book Playlist (&vice versa), maybe the Player Controller will not update Pictures and Time.
WORKAROUND: when the playlist is created completely, REFRESH it again (will run fast). If the issue still persists, you just need to switch to another Frame (eg. click Library and then go back to Playlist and it will work).

TextToSpeech 10 @ Windows Store

 

 

FIRST APLHA prerelease Test

PDF Import ist ready for a test flight 🙂

CURRENTLY ISSUES Build 6666:
-the boxes „Start import from“ / „END import at“ are mandatory, you HAVE TO set it!!, app crashes if not specified
-dont push the Set Image button before you loaded the pdf, app crashes if source image is empty..
-currently you can´t delete items in the pdf Library or modify it´s content…
-Title and image will be SET when you press OK. you cant change it, even it look like.
-DON´T set the multiplicator for rendering resolution TOO HIGH… you may experience app crashes caused by OutOfMemory exceptions. In most cases, a multi of „1“ is enough resolution to get the text scanned with no fault.

After starting the process of scanning the pages, you will have to wait until it finishes.
Now the item for the whole document is added to the PDF Library, simply go to there
and Tap/Click the PDF you want to get read aloud. If enabled in Settings, the Playlist will start immediately after the first file is created. You can also use prev/next to walk throught already created wave´s… when creation finally finished, you can leave the app, player will run in background 🙂

Sooon included in PREMIUM Pack One