07-08-2003, 03:30 PM
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Contributing Editor Emeritus
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Laridian Updates PocketBible for Pocket PC 2003
http://www.laridian.com/ce/default.asp
Just a heads up if you are a Laridian PocketBible user. They have released 2.020 and it works great on 2003 devices. There are some HTML issues you should be aware of if you make your own notes or own HTML files to be used as books. These changes are due to the new browser included in the Windows CE 4.2 OS that is underneath 2003.
� On a Pocket PC 2002 you could identify the target of a named anchor like this:  . With 2003, you must close the tag, so your targets should look like  . Without the closing tag, everything that follows will appear as a link.
� You must include the full path in images now, plus the word "file:" so an image would look like  . PocketBible no longer assumes your images are with the rest of your PocketBible books.
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07-08-2003, 07:03 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Cool! Glad it was updated for 2003 cause I'm going to be getting my 2200 this week and this is probably my 2nd most used program.
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07-08-2003, 08:03 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 713
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For those updating to a new device don't pull the same bonehead manuever I pulled. I had my Bibles installed to a CF card and my reader on my e740. When I got my iPAQ 2215 I installed the reader and simply slapped in my CF card. Pocket Bible kept giving me an error and didn't see the Bibles. I finally realized that my CF card was called "\Storage Card" on the e740 but is now called "\CF Card." Apparantly, Pocket Bible stores this path info during installation of the Bibles so it didn't think any were available.
Reinstalling the Bibles themselves cleared up the problem.
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07-08-2003, 08:28 PM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Another thing you shouldn't do is copy \My Documents\Laridian Books\LaridianData.ldb and PocketBible.lwc from one device to the other. I upgraded PocketBible at the same time I upgraded to 2215, and this was crashing PocketBible.
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07-08-2003, 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Dodd
For those updating to a new device don't pull the same bonehead manuever I pulled. I had my Bibles installed to a CF card and my reader on my e740. When I got my iPAQ 2215 I installed the reader and simply slapped in my CF card. Pocket Bible kept giving me an error and didn't see the Bibles. I finally realized that my CF card was called "\Storage Card" on the e740 but is now called "\CF Card." Apparantly, Pocket Bible stores this path info during installation of the Bibles so it didn't think any were available.
Reinstalling the Bibles themselves cleared up the problem.
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You should only have to do that one time, not for each book. I think deleting the pocketbible.lwc file will also clear that up.
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07-08-2003, 08:31 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by captgoodhope
Another thing you shouldn't do is copy \My Documents\Laridian Books\LaridianData.ldb and PocketBible.lwc from one device to the other. I upgraded PocketBible at the same time I upgraded to 2215, and this was crashing PocketBible.
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Actually, I just realized that these leftover files were what was probably causing my problem. I manually deleted them before reinstalling, but forgot to mention that.  ops:
Thanks Captain!
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07-08-2003, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by captgoodhope
Another thing you shouldn't do is copy \My Documents\Laridian Books\LaridianData.ldb and PocketBible.lwc from one device to the other. I upgraded PocketBible at the same time I upgraded to 2215, and this was crashing PocketBible.
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The .LWC you are correct, bu the LDB file you definitely want to keep. This file houses all of your bookmarks and custom notes. If you don't use those features, then it is no big deal, but if you do, you'll lose everything if you leave the .ldb file behind.
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07-08-2003, 09:26 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
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I hope there's a speed improvement with 2003. I just took the plunge with Pocket Bible a few weeks ago, and am frustrated by the amount of time I see the "spinning disk". Granted, I don't run many third-party apps on my Axim, but the only other program with that kind of slow performance is Pocket IE calling up AvantGo pages.
(it particularly hurts because I have a Palm zealot friend who insists that the Palm Bible he has loads instantly. :cry: )
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07-08-2003, 10:40 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Feb 2002
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How is the performance with PPC2K3?
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07-09-2003, 12:21 AM
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Performance is much faster. Much faster. I doubt any of this is on the part of Laridian though. Most likely it all comes from general OS enhancements (dialogs draw much faster) and of course, the new IE rendering engine in CE 4.2.
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