Problems with Microsoft Reader 2.3

[Nypyren]

I have the following problem with Microsoft Reader (newest version, 2.3) on my X50v:

From soft reset, I start Reader. After opening a book and starting to read, any stylus clicks that I try register at a COMPLETELY different point on the screen. This is in stock un-modified not-true-VGA (i.e. no SE_VGA nor OZ VGA). Pocket IE seems fine (besides some image scroll tearing issues) -- the stylus clicks register at the proper positions.

When I turn on SE_VGA's "true-VGA" mode, Reader behaves perfectly. However, this makes a dozen built-in applications draw to the screen improperly.

What's the deal? Can't I use ALL of my apps in one mode OR the other (I can handle if some don't work in true VGA if they ALL worked in stock semi-VGA).

Do any hacks for the X50v attempt to solve this? There's nothing I can find for Reader that solves this issue.

Upon further experimentation, it seems that the (X,Y) coordinates of the stylus are getting multiplied by 2 when in stock VGA (a 240x480 -to- 480x640 scale transform). Seems like a simple enough bug to fix if it's specific to Reader's code itself.

[Don't Panic!]

I've experienced what your talking about (Except for the se_vga thing, very surprising results you get) and when a book acts like that I use the d-pad to navigate menus. Inevitably full stylus functionallity returns after a few uses. I don't have a clue why. But it hasn't stopped me using MS Reader. If past experience is any judge we'll have to wait for a new release before a fix can be found. The last big bug in MS Reader (Ken Mattern's Free e-books would not appear except for the cover) was fixed with a new release not a hack. That last bug was extremly embarrassing to MS but it still took a good long while to fix.

[shsmith]

The solution is in this thread:
http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=62807

If you unzip the msreader.0409.mui file into the same directory as msreader.exe it fixes most of the problems. I've been using it this way for several weeks and it has been very reliable.

[Nypyren]

Awesome! That fixed the stylus position bug that I was having :) Thanks!

[Don't Panic!]

shsmith the Tweaks2k2.NET VGA Brute Force hack worked for me too but the library fonts got smaller. Any ideas on that issue? The actual stories are okay but the titles in the library are smaller.

BTW when I tried that hack with A01 it didn't do much of anything. Worked like a charm with A02. Thanks.