Removed automatic dependency installation as it only works in Linux.

Removed dependency on PyXML.
Fixed unicode handling in books command of CLI
Various minor bug fixes to make things run smoothly in windows.
Version bump.

setup.py

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ try:
   try:
     import Image
   except ImportError: 
-    if sys.platform not in ['win32', 'darwin']:
+    if sys.platform.lower()[:5] not in ['win32', 'darwin']:
         print "Trying to install the Python Imaging Library"
         easy_install(["-f", "http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/", "Imaging"])
     else:
@@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ if sys.hexversion < 0x2050000:
     sys.exit(1)
     
 
-install_requires=[]
-if sys.platform not in ['win32', 'darwin']:
-  install_requires = ["pyusb>=0.3.5", "pyxml>=0.8.4"]
-
 setup(
       name='libprs500', 
       packages = find_packages('src'), 
@@ -74,10 +70,6 @@ setup(
         'gui_scripts'    : [ 'prs500-gui = libprs500.gui.main:main']
       }, 
       zip_safe = True, 
-      install_requires = install_requires, 
-      dependency_links = ["http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=6473", 
-                          "http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pyusb/pyusb-0.3.5.tar.gz", 
-                                    ], 
       description = 
                   """
                   Library to interface with the Sony Portable Reader 500 

src/libprs500/__init__.py

@@ -37,6 +37,6 @@ the following rule in C{/etc/udev/rules.d/90-local.rules} ::
 You may have to adjust the GROUP and the location of the rules file to 
 suit your distribution.
 """
-__version__   = "0.3.0b5"
+__version__   = "0.3.0b6"
 __docformat__ = "epytext"
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"

src/libprs500/books.py

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 This module contains the logic for dealing with XML book lists found 
 in the reader cache. 
 """
-from xml.dom.ext import PrettyPrint
 import xml.dom.minidom as dom
 from base64 import b64decode as decode
 from base64 import b64encode as encode
@@ -95,7 +94,7 @@ class Book(object):
         self.root = root
     
     def __repr__(self):        
-        return self.title + " by " + self.author+ " at " + self.path
+        return self.title + u" by " + self.author + u" at " + self.path
     
     def __str__(self):
         return self.__repr__()
@@ -208,4 +207,4 @@ class BookList(list):
     
     def write(self, stream):
         """ Write XML representation of DOM tree to C{stream} """
-        PrettyPrint(self.document, stream)
+        stream.write(self.document.toxml('utf-8'))

src/libprs500/cli/main.py

@@ -207,7 +207,8 @@ def main():
                                                                             str(0 if total[i]==0 else int(100*(total[i]-free[i])/(total[i]*1.)))+"%")
         elif command == "books":
             print "Books in main memory:"
-            for book in dev.books(): print book
+            for book in dev.books(): 
+                print unicode(book)
             print "\nBooks on storage card:"
             for book in dev.books(oncard=True): print book      
         elif command == "mkdir":

src/libprs500/communicate.py

@@ -480,9 +480,9 @@ class PRS500Device(Device):
                             command_number=FileIO.RNUMBER, packet_size=4096)
             try:
                 # The first 16 bytes are meta information on the packet stream
-                array('B', packets[0][16:]).tofile(outfile) 
+                outfile.write("".join(map(chr, packets[0][16:])))
                 for i in range(1, len(packets)):                    
-                    array('B', packets[i]).tofile(outfile)
+                    outfile.write("".join(map(chr, packets[i])))
             except IOError, err:
                 self.send_validated_command(FileClose(_id))
                 raise ArgumentError("File get operation failed. " + \

src/libprs500/gui/main.py

@@ -522,6 +522,8 @@ class Main(QObject, Ui_MainWindow):
         except DeviceBusy, err:
             Error("Device is in use by another application", None)
             self.status("Device busy")
+            self.window.setCursor(Qt.ArrowCursor)
+            return
         except DeviceError, err:
             self.dev.reconnect()
             self.thread().msleep(100)
@@ -550,26 +552,17 @@ class Main(QObject, Ui_MainWindow):
         sc = space[1] if int(space[1])>0 else space[2]    
         self.device_tree.model().update_free_space(space[0], sc)
 
-class LockFile(object):
-    def __init__(self, path):
-        self.path = path
-        f = open(path, "w")
-        f.close()
-    
-    def __del__(self):
-        if os.access(self.path, os.F_OK): os.remove(self.path)
-
 class DeviceConnectDetector(QObject):
     
     def timerEvent(self, e):
         if e.timerId() == self.device_detector:
             is_connected = self.dev.is_connected()
             if is_connected and not self.is_connected:
-                self.emit(SIGNAL("device_connected()"))
                 self.is_connected = True
+                self.emit(SIGNAL("device_connected()"))
             elif not is_connected and self.is_connected:
-                self.emit(SIGNAL("device_removed()"))       
                 self.is_connected = False
+                self.emit(SIGNAL("device_removed()"))
     
     def udi_is_device(self, udi):
         ans = False
@@ -638,7 +631,6 @@ def main():
     QCoreApplication.setOrganizationName("KovidsBrain")
     QCoreApplication.setApplicationName(APP_TITLE)
     Main(window, options.log_packets)    
-    lock = LockFile(lock)
     return app.exec_()
 
 if __name__ == "__main__": 

src/libprs500/gui/main.ui

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@
         <property name="maximumSize" >
          <size>
           <width>10000</width>
-          <height>95</height>
+          <height>90</height>
          </size>
         </property>
         <property name="verticalScrollBarPolicy" >
@@ -81,11 +81,17 @@
         <property name="sizePolicy" >
          <sizepolicy>
           <hsizetype>5</hsizetype>
-          <vsizetype>0</vsizetype>
+          <vsizetype>5</vsizetype>
           <horstretch>0</horstretch>
           <verstretch>0</verstretch>
          </sizepolicy>
         </property>
+        <property name="maximumSize" >
+         <size>
+          <width>16777215</width>
+          <height>90</height>
+         </size>
+        </property>
         <property name="text" >
          <string>For help visit &lt;a href="https://libprs500.kovidgoyal.net/wiki/GuiUsage">http://libprs500.kovidgoyal.net&lt;/a>&lt;br>&lt;br>&lt;b>libprs500&lt;/b> was created by &lt;b>Kovid Goyal&lt;/b> &amp;copy; 2006&lt;br>%1 %2 %3</string>
         </property>
@@ -281,8 +287,8 @@
   <widget class="QToolBar" name="tool_bar" >
    <property name="minimumSize" >
     <size>
-     <width>163</width>
+     <width>124</width>
-     <height>58</height>
+     <height>50</height>
     </size>
    </property>
    <property name="movable" >