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Today I decided to implement the new feature for all our viewers – to open the file which dropped from Windows Explorer
When I opened the sources to implement this feature, I found that this feature is already implemented:-)

Just forgot to include in history.

Fix:
http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=37403

In last time the Electronic Books are very popular. Sony Reader, IBook Reader, BeBook, lBook etc

As result, the new xml-based format for e-books was developed – FictionBook (.fb2):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FictionBook

All these hardware units allow to read the e-books in this format

Today I added the new component for our SMWord suite for Delphi/C++Builder – TFictionBook
This component allow to read any .fb2-file and extract the plain text.
Also you may convert the text from Fiction Book into rtf (richtext) or html

So if you want to develop the new reader or just want to add a possibility to search the information inside .fb2-files, you are welcome to order our SMWord suite.

Now there the next formats supported:

• .doc files (all versions for MS Word) – TMSWordDocument component
• .docx files (MS Word 2007) – TMSWordXDocument component
• .wpd (all versions for WordPerfect documents from Corel Office) – TWordPerfectFile component
• .wri (MS Writer) – TWRIFile component
• .odt (text documents from Open Office) - TOpenOfficeTextDocument component
• .ods (spreadsheets from Open Office) - TOpenOfficeSpreadsheet component
• .odp (presentations from Open Office) – TOpenOfficePresentation component
• .fb2 (FictionBook, e-book) – TFictionBook component

In Saturday I buyed the new hard disk (WD2500BEVE) for my laptop (HP xt6200)
The new disk is not initialized by default, so:
- I plugged this unit via USB (Transcend 2,5′ IDE HDD Enclosure for USB 2.0 Port)
- rebooted
- opened the Control Panel\Administration\Disk Management
- initialized the disk
- created the main active partion (100Gb), new logical drive and formatted (NTFS)
- created additional partion (rest 150Gb), two new logical drives (75Gb+75Gb) and formatted each (NTFS)

Most comfortable (for me personallY) place where program must store the ini-file with options/settings is the application directory. For example, dbview.exe must save the dbview.ini in same folder where .exe is

But interface guide from Microsoft noted that these end-user settings must be saved in CSIDL_APPDATA (C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\<Company>\<Application>)

If application ran in MS Vista with enabled UAC and tried to write (create file) something into application directory, error raised.

So we changed the code (to get the file name for settings):
function GetINIFileName: string;
var
  strFileName: string;
begin
  strFileName := ExtractFileName(ParamStr(0));
  Result := GetUserDirectory(‘Scalabium\’ + ChangeFileExt(strFileName, ”) + ‘\’) + ChangeFileExt(strFileName, ‘.ini’)
end;

where
function GetUserDirectory(const SubDir: string): string;
var
  List: PItemIDList;
  Path: array[0..MAX_PATH] of Char;
begin
  SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(0, CSIDL_APPDATA, List);
  SHGetPathFromIDList(List, Path);
  Result := String(Path);
  if (Result = ”) then
    Result:= ExtractFilePath(ParamStr(0))
  else
  if (SubDir <> ”) then
  begin
    Result := Result + ‘\’ + SubDir;

    ForceDirectories(Result);
  end
end;

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