NOTE: Try and use this addin at your own risk. This addin does not change your memo texts, it only reads the databases. Every software has bugs, also this addin, and so it may lock your REX. Please provide feedback if this addin is usefull to you by sending an email to pkogler@hyperwave.com.

RexReader:

RexReader 1.1 is a freeware REX 6000 addin that can show (rich) formatted memo texts.

Usage:

REX 6000 hardware buttons:

From top to bottom (see screenshot).

Home button shows the memo named "RexReader Index".
Back button leaves the addin.
Enter button shows the links on the visible page.
Up button pages up one page.
Down button pages down one page.

Addin bitmap buttons:

From left to right (see screenshot).

Close button leaves the addin (disabled until bug is found, that can lock the REX 6000).
Up button pages up one page.
Down button pages down one page.
Home button shows the memo named "RexReader Index".
About button shows the memo named "RexReader About".
Links button shows the links on the visible page.
Memo button opens the keyboard where you can enter the beginning of a memo title that should be shown (case sensitive).

Formatting Options:

Formatting text is done by entering formatting characters into the memo text. The formatting characters are started with a '_' character (this character is easily synced with outlook, outlook is sometimes escaping \ which i used first) and following is a formatting option character. The characters used are case sensitive and more than one formatting style can be combined by using formatting commands after each other. Here is an example memo with title RexReader Index that gives the following result (screenshot) on the REX 6000.

The following table shows all interpreted formatting characters:

_0	Switch back to normal text.
_+	Text ^over normal text.
_-	Text _under normal text.
_n or newline (\r) in memo	New line in text.
_b	Bold text.
_i	Inverted text.
_u	Underlined text.
_s	Small text.
_l(note title)	Links to other memos, with memo title is starting with specified memo title (case sensitive).Not interpreted in this version, but will be browseable by opening other named memos in one of the next releases.

Known Issues in Version 1.1:

Does not work in the REX emulator (REX emulator does not support the REX 6000 fonts, and dialog components).
Links are hardcoded to other memos named "RexReader Link 1" to "RexReader Link 5".
Rendering engine will break words.
Slow rendering engine.
Many bugs in rendering engine.
Exiting the addin with the Close bitmap button has sometimes strange effects (sometimes locking the device), so please use the hardware Back button.

Limitations in Version 1.1:

Some of these items are planned to be changed in a next release.

Memos at maximum with 3k Bytes (due to a limitation in the compiler that allows only small char arrays).
Memos with maximum 20 pages.
Memos with maximum 5 links (hardcoded) per page.

Software Changes:

For changes between the versions follow this link.

Credits:

Thank goes to:

Dana White for providing wepspace, time and her superb website loaded with tons of information about the REX!
http://www.rexextras.net for providing the website loaded with tons of information about programming REX!