Haali Reader - a book reader for Windows CE

After I tried a few existing apps I still couldnt find anything that had all required features and was easy to use. The main problem was the lack of support for cyrillic encodings. So I decided to write my own bookreader.

Some (scarce) documentation, thanks to Chris Clark for providing a skeleton

Download: Last version: 171

Desktop installer for Pocket PC and Palm size PC: HaaliReaderSetup

Executable files for use directly on a pda:

Versions for 2.11 don't support some features present in pocketpc version.

Other goodies

Sources, An english-russian dictionary.

Main features:

• Loads plain text and XML files, more info about XML: xml2lit, ClearTXT, books in XML format are available at Muhomor's library, mostly in Russian. There were rumours that Haali Reader can open Microsoft LIT files. This is not the case. LIT format is not supported and will never be supported.
• Cyrillic encodings support with autodetection.
• Last viewed position in file is saved on exit.
• ClearType support.
• Any font/size can be selected.
• Fullscreen and landscape mode.
• Colors can be adjusted.
• Text search.
• Dictionary support. Tapping a word opens a translation window.
• Automatic hyphenation (russian language only).
• Table of contents and bookmarks
• Multiple columns support (1-4)
• PRC/PDB files support (plain text and XMl only, HTML is not supported).
• Builtin ZIP archives support.

Controls

• Buttons:
  • Up,PgUp - page backward.
  • Down,Space,PgDn - page forward.
  • Left,Home - save current position and move to start of file.
  • Right,End - save current position and move to end of file.
  • Enter,Action - toggle fullscreen.
• Stylus:
  • Tap - lookup word in dictionary (can be turned off).
  • Double Tap - toggle fullscreen