Direct access to specific document

[aschechtman]

It would be nice if iSilo accomodated the ability for users to directly access a specific iSilo document from the PDA's "desktop" (instead of opening into the document list view). Along with this, the ability for publishers to attach an icon to a document that could directly open that document from the desktop would be nice.

Andrew Schechtman, M.D.
MeisterMed

[Berg]

Indeed, this would be a great feature !

[Steve King]

It would be nice if iSilo accomodated the ability for users to directly access a specific iSilo document from the PDA's "desktop" (instead of opening into the document list view).


Try a 3rd party launcher. I use LauncherX, which shows all documents as well as applications. Just tap the doc you want and you're there. http://www.launcherx.com/

[prion]

To take this concept a bit further for developers :
Create an SDK to integrate isilo document formatting view into other palm applications.
and/or
Create a redistribution kit, which could bundle a single isilo document, reader into a PRC with a custom icon.

[ajg23]

I use LauncherX, which shows all documents as well as applications.
I, too, use LauncherX, but the problem is if you use documents so large they must be on the external card. That's because LauncherX still must copy such a file to RAM before launching it with iSilo.

So I have a 6MB file on the card, and I click it-->I wait for the entire file to be copied to RAM before I can use it! (When iSilo could already read it from the card!)

The flip side of this problem is if I just want quick access to a tiny reference document: if the last document iSilo loaded was some big file, I have to wait for that file to re-load, then tell iSilo to close and wait for that, then find and select the file I want and wait for *it* to load!

Granted, this takes increasingly less periods of time with newer PDAs, but it's still so unnecessary!

An idea I have: give us a little stub of a program called "iSilo Library" that, when launched, directly opens the file list (rather than first loading the previous document, etc). In fact, I think I will recommend this specifically :)

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