Re: Python 2.2

2003-03-18 Thread Robert O'Connor
When I upgraded(?) to Python 2.2.2, I ran into the failed to generate a home document problem. This has been discussed a bit on the list. The problem is with urlparse.urlunparse. They drastically changed the way it works in 2.2.2. So how about we use the replacement already in

Re: JPluck, Plucker Desktop, Icons in Launcher

2003-03-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
there is the possibility to make a plucker document startable from the launcher, not only from inside the Plucker . (You also can give this database an extra icon, handy, isn't it? ;-) My question: How is this done? If choosing this option, is there a single application created and

Re: Re[4]: JPluck, Plucker Desktop, Icons in Launcher

2003-03-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
What pages don't get parsed properly? If you are sure the HTML is valid to the W3C spec, you may wish to fill out a bug report at http://bugs.plkr.org so that it can be. No, it's not a bug in Plucker Desktop or Parser, it is because those guys can't keep their fingers from illegal

Re: Images - big (?) ones

2003-03-11 Thread Robert O'Connor
Hi Lukasz, There is a 60KB limit currently on uncompressed images. You are already at 1bpp, so the only way to fit them under 60KB is to drop dimensions. This limit may be removed in the coming weeks (read the threads in plucker archives for the discussion). Best wishes, Robert

Re: Horizontal scrolling for viewing pictures?

2003-03-10 Thread Robert O'Connor
can see the picture ok, but it is cut in half because I have no mean to scroll horizontally. Is there an option to do that? The maxwidth maxheight determines the size of the thumbnails (a few pixels below your screen width/height is recommended--to make room for scrollbar etc). The

Re: Those darn little [img] tags

2003-03-05 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 4 Mar 2003 at 22:17, Saúl Perdomo M. wrote: Please don't flame me if this question has been asked (over and over) before, but I couldn't find any mention of it in the list archives. The question is: when you convert a page into the plucker format using the --noimages option, how do you

Re: Those darn little [img] tags

2003-03-05 Thread Robert O'Connor
There was a patch kindly written for this, including additions to the commandline for no alt image tags if not a link, but it seems to not be on the net anywhere anymore before it could get into CVS. Does anyone have a copy of it? It this what you seek?

Re: Choosing Icons

2003-02-25 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 24 Feb 2003 at 23:42, Adam McDaniel wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:30:06PM -0500, James Busch wrote: I am having trouble using the select icon feature of the parser. Specifically, the Configure channel / output options tab that allows the application to be launched from the main

Re: Python Crashes on Every Channel

2003-02-23 Thread Robert O'Connor
Is there a way to tell what Python is trying to do when it crashes to figure out why this is happening? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. One option is to turn the verbosity up to maximum and see the last successful command done by the parser defore the external internet monitor

Re: Plucker MSW package: Direct install to MemoryStick, fix for not-change-the-duedates-after-updating

2003-02-18 Thread Robert O'Connor
With all the great new options for installing PDBs, it would be nice to have a destination column on the Main Plucker Desktop showing the basic destination of a file. By basic I mean RAM, SD, MMC, File - any file location, and Other - for either multiple users or multiple destinations.

Re: PLUCKER-DESKTOP Error...

2003-02-18 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 18 Feb 2003 at 14:18, sd shields wrote: locale 'LC_MONETARY=English_United States.437 LC_TIME=English_United States.437 LC_NUMERIC=English_United States.437 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.437 ' can not be set. I click OK and it works perfectly. Hi, Thanks for your letter.

Re: A Plucker Desktop MSW debug version is available for tire-kicking

2003-02-17 Thread Robert O'Connor
A debug version of Plucker Desktop is available for MSW. A required .DLL file, CC3250MT.DLL, was not found Hi Larry, Thanks for the catch! The zip has been updated with the file (which is the compiler's dynamic library for C++ executable's). I went through the .exe file with an inspector

Re: Minimize to system tray?

2003-02-17 Thread Robert O'Connor
Is there anyway to get PluckerDesktop to minimize to the system tray? I™d like to keep PD running so it updates my content, but don™t need to see the taskbar button there all the time. Not at the moment, though it is a somewhat trivial addition to make. There would be a option in the

A Plucker Desktop MSW debug version is available for tire-kicking

2003-02-16 Thread Robert O'Connor
A debug version of Plucker Desktop is available for MSW. This can be run alongside an installed non-debug version without interfering with it. What this version does does is show debug messages to a window, as well as informative alerts if there is anything wrong in the code. The zip file is

Re: Cut Paste channel to Plucker desktop

2003-02-15 Thread Robert O'Connor
The iSilo desktop accepts a paste of the URL from the clipboard as if you had pressed the new button which is nice, I think this would be an easy enough improvement of Plucker desktop that will make it easier to just drop an URL on it from your favourite browser. There should be some

Re: Problem with certain site

2003-02-13 Thread Robert O'Connor
I know this page is _not_ W3C conform, tested with http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.animexx.de%2Fnews.phtml File H:\Program Files\Plucker\PyPlucker\TextParser.py, line 484, in set_forecolor elif value[0] == '#': It's likely them putting in colors that are illegal.

Can viewer show a file in Document list if identical name in both RAM and card? (Was Re: New desktop not updating properly)

2003-02-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 12 Feb 2003 at 11:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: more info /correction... they ARE being hotsynced, but the new one doesn't show up in the viewer if there is a older copy with the same name on the palm's SD card (maybe the viewer needs to display both copies so there is no confusion

Re: new desktop not updating properly

2003-02-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 11 Feb 2003 at 20:28, Eugene Y. Vasserman wrote: Yes, I noted this as well. You can add comments to bug 474: http://gnu-designs.com/bugs/view_bug_advanced_page.php?f_id=474 Hi Eugene, I'll step through it and see where the bug is. There was a switchover from updating at the end to

Re: Can viewer show a file in Document list if identical name in both RAM and card? (Was Re: New desktop not updating properly)

2003-02-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
Can someone confirm about the viewer's document list not being able to show a file by same name in both RAM and the card? Using the latest library code, it looks as though if the user has the same document in both VFS and in RAM, the VFS one would be displayed and used. When I remove the

Re: Font Color

2003-02-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 12 Feb 2003 at 14:01, Chris Johnson wrote: Changing BPP to 1 does not seem to work. Are there any settings in the pluckerrc file that will accomplish this for all sites spidered? I think they meant in the viewer (under options menu). Best wishes, Robert

Re: Can viewer show a file in Document list if identical name in both RAM and card? (Was Re: New desktop not updating properly)

2003-02-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
Can someone confirm about the viewer's document list not being able to show a file by same name in both RAM and the card? Is a solution for this possible/feasible in the viewer? Best wishes, Robert ___ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Plucker MSW package: Direct install to MemoryStick, fix for not-change-the-duedates-after-updating

2003-02-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
A new MSW package will be available for download shortly. This adds in the ability to directly install to MemoryStick (not just SD cards). Also fixes the duedates, as described on the maillist, so that they change properly after updating (this was a bug remnant from the previous method of

Re: Can viewer show a file in Document list if identical name in both RAM and card? (Was Re: New desktop not updating properly)

2003-02-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 12 Feb 2003 at 20:55, Adam McDaniel wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 03:01:36AM -, Robert O'Connor wrote: Can someone confirm about the viewer's document list not being able to show a file by same name in both RAM and the card? Is a solution for this possible/feasible

Re: Special characters

2003-02-11 Thread Robert O'Connor
Non-palm characters getting replaced by unicode This is the Python parser script. If it isn't a Palm character, it gets written as the raw number of the character. You can add into the script with the others. Best wishes, Robert ___ plucker-list

Re: New desktop install (temporarily) killed all hotsyncing

2003-02-11 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 11 Feb 2003 at 10:29, Alan Hoyle wrote: Quitting and restarting HotSync Manager made the problem go away. Whew! It also syncs stuff to my card effortlessly! A minor point though: It would be more user friendly and certinly less user panicy if the conduit installer did that

RE: Plucker 1.2.0.3 MSW package: Sync to card, Conduit, Terminate-nice commandline

2003-02-09 Thread Robert O'Connor
Does anyone else find that Plucker Desktop consistenly crashes when you go into - Options set default config for new channels destination and then try and add sync to card? I find that as soon as I click on OK on the Options box, Plucker Desktop crashes! Updating the destination for an

Plucker 1.2.0.3 MSW package: Sync to card, Conduit, Terminate-nice commandline

2003-02-08 Thread Robert O'Connor
A new Plucker package is available for MS Windows. It is available at: www.clinicalexam.com/pluckerdesktop/downloads/msw/plucker_desktop_setup.exe The three main parts included are: (1) A conduit that allows the ability to update any due channels when hit the HotSync button, and install them

Re: Plucker Desktop/Parser Question

2003-02-07 Thread Robert O'Connor
One thing that has been bothering me, is that when using the desktop to update an extensive list of channels, it only generates the output files at the end of the whole process. If Irun into an arror at one of the last channels, or for whatever reason the process fails, I loose all the

Re: Loadtimes / Multiple pages

2003-02-07 Thread Robert O'Connor
4.) Forms support (not as easy as you would think, logic changes) Just out of curiousity. What exactly is meant by forms support? First thing that jumps into my head is html forms like ones on google and stuff. Not really sure how those apply to plucker :) Yes. The forms are form

Re: Viewer installation instructions

2003-01-29 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 29 Jan 2003 at 15:32, David Suna wrote: I am a website designer. I have been asked to put up a site from which users can download documents to be viewed on their Palm Pilots. I have chosen Plucker for the project. I would like to put up a page from which the user can download the

Re: Win installer corrupted

2003-01-25 Thread Robert O'Connor
http://downloads.plkr.org/1.2/plucker_desktop_setup.exe There is a mirror of the file here: www.clinicalexam.com/pluckerdesktop/downloads/msw/plucker_desktop_setup.exe You can see if there is any difference in your downloading. They are the same file though. Best wishes, Robert

Re: problem with 'mobile' espn.com

2003-01-21 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 21 Jan 2003 at 8:24, David Han wrote: The problem is that this site uses a graphical navigation bar at the top for the different sports sections and the graphics don't show up in plucker even if I have graphics turned on in plucker-desktop. I just get a bunch of [img] tags, where the

Re: RuntimeError: The collection process failed to generate a 'home' document

2002-11-16 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 16 Nov 2002 at 13:50, Robert W March wrote: Converting http://linuxtoday.com/img/URL.gif?width=.ight=16depth=1... raise RuntimeError(The collection process failed to generate a 'home' docum ent) Try putting a try_reduce_dimension=1 key in your [DEFAULT] section. The crawled

Re: Languajes for plucker

2002-11-15 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 15 Nov 2002 at 2:57, Drake wrote: Hi there! I´m new on the list, so, Hello to everyone :D As a spanish user,i´d love to see Plucker in my born languaje, but it seems to work only in english, despite of the languaje selection tab. Is that a future implementation? Am I doing something

Re: Plucker + PocketPC = ?

2002-11-15 Thread Robert O'Connor
Hi Paul, Thanks for your letter. There are no Free toolchains to make native software for the PocketPC platform. By Microsoft making that choice, Microsoft loses out on a large slice of potential Free projects that are being built for other platforms. If they ignore the Free developers,

Re: Pucker Team

2002-11-14 Thread Robert O'Connor
Hello Dominic, The content is distilled from the University College Dublin teaching materials. The mnemonics are from medicalmnemonics.com. Feel free to modify it to your own hospital though, with regards to which clinical steps your prefer to be performed at Leeds. The source HTML is

Re: Plucker Doc's on SD Card

2002-11-11 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 10 Nov 2002 at 17:07, Erich Neuwirth wrote: the perfect solution for putting stuff on the sd card would be if plucker desktop would allow to set the destination of a channel to sd card in the configuration dialog of the channel. is that going to come? Yes.

Re: conversion problem - where to find a cure?

2002-11-11 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 11 Nov 2002 at 13:52, Alan Sinclair wrote: I asked earlier how to clean up the HTML put out by MS Word many thanks to all who gave suggestions hopefully I can escape from Word but in the meantime this MS tool does a decent cleans up of the HTML from MS Office:

Re: conversion problem - where to find a cure?

2002-11-08 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 8 Nov 2002 at 10:45, Alan Sinclair wrote: A Plucker conversion is failing ... please can someone tell me where to begin finding a cure? Error: Runtime error parsing document file:D:\temp\Dubliners.htm: unexpected char in declaration: '' Parsing failed. Illegal tags. The text has

Re: sd card

2002-11-03 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 3 Nov 2002 at 11:55, Erich Neuwirth wrote: is there a way for configuring plucker desktop so it installs the daily updates automatically to the sd card on my m505? i could not find an explanation either in the faq nor in the older messages i scanned. Yes. The process has been worked

Re: Use of pre tag

2002-11-02 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 2 Nov 2002 at 10:55, Dondi Mapa wrote: In the manual, it says use the pre tag to view two columns side-by-side. I'm not sure exactly how to use this, can anyone help me with an example? Here's the page I'm trying to pluck, it's an Avantgo site:

Plucker Desktop MSW updated package available

2002-11-02 Thread Robert O'Connor
An updated MSW package is available. Can be download as plucker_desktop_setup.exe from the www.plkr.org site, or from desktop.plkr.org Items: -Includes new Danish translation, with much thanks to Claus Hindsgaul -Most recently released viewers. -Updates/corrections to Showcase entries, as

RE: 2 Q's: 1) Keeping it one big doc 2) Memory card syncing

2002-11-01 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 31 Oct 2002 at 18:34, Beard, Jeffrey J. wrote: So really, my only problem now is the breaking into sections issue. It's fully searchable, but not fully scrollable without having to tap on 7 section links at the bottom of each page on the PDA, which is quite cumbersome. I understand the

Re: Exception whilst writing the plucker database...

2002-11-01 Thread Robert O'Connor
The only other errors that I see are a few expected 404's, and a few images that are too large. Would such errors lead to something like this? What do you mean by images that are too large? Images that are too large do cause a problem if there is expected to be an image and none is

Specifying options for right click conversion? (Was RE: Convert to Plucker)

2002-10-31 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 30 Oct 2002 at 14:32, Jason Jan Ngo wrote: Add to the options Convert To Plucker and the command line... yourpluckerdirectory\Plucker\plucker-build.exe -H file:%1 -f %1 -s CONTEXT_DEFAULT * I added a -M0 option so that it doesn't parse the related links. The way that right click

Re: Plucker and Mac OS X

2002-10-31 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 31 Oct 2002 at 13:07, Jonathan Greene wrote: I am new to the group here and posting for the first time after a quick search in the archives... I am VERY interested in getting Plucker to work on my machine which is running OS X 10.2.1. I know it has python installed as part of the

Re: Plucker and Mac OS X

2002-10-31 Thread Robert O'Connor
I am new to the group here and posting for the first time after a quick search in the archives... I am VERY interested in getting Plucker to work on my machine which is running OS X 10.2.1. I know it has python installed as part of the system, but I am not a coder... Are there

Re: Fixed Width Text with links

2002-10-30 Thread Robert O'Connor
I'm trying to build an eBook from a web based bible. I would like to setup the book list in a table like format. However the Fixed Width fonts are not exactly right. Here is an exert for my HTML file. What is wrong with it? ___ plucker-list

Re: 2 Q's: 1) Keeping it one big doc 2) Memory card syncing

2002-10-29 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 29 Oct 2002 at 13:07, Beard, Jeffrey J. wrote: 1) Problem: I've configured both iSilo and Plucker so that the long HTML table is rendered in a single table on the Palm, separated by lines between fields (which is so much easier to read than horizontal table scrolling). In iSilo, the table

Re: Reading password-protected sites

2002-10-26 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 26 Oct 2002 at 18:39, Peter Tögel wrote: I would like to read password-protected sites via plucker on my PalmPilot. I have legal access to these sites, but I do not understand how to force Pucker Desktop 1.2.0.2 to paste username and password into the dialog. You may take a look at the

Re: Minimal Plucker

2002-10-25 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 24 Oct 2002 at 17:08, Fringe Ryder wrote: One of the ways I shed weight was to remove all but one of the .prc files, leaving just my version (256 color lo-res) and ZLib. But I will take a look at the executables also. I remember you attempted to lighten Desktop by removing DLLs a few

Re: Plucker Desktop Process Window issue Workaround

2002-10-24 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 23 Oct 2002 at 22:11, Larry Turner wrote: I recently read a post about someone who is having trouble using MSW's Task Scheduler to start the Plucker Desktop in command line mode. The process hangs if the computer has a screensaver running. I looked through the archives, but couldn't find

Re: Minimal Plucker

2002-10-24 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 24 Oct 2002 at 15:33, Fringe Ryder wrote: I suspect I can get it considerably smaller with a bit of work, such as determining which DLLs are really needed. Has anyone already gone through this excercise? No, hasn't been done. Please do if you are able. That would be very helpful. If

Re: Consolidation of Plucker Pages?

2002-10-22 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 22 Oct 2002 at 8:41, John Carr wrote: I am trying to create a plucker PDB from a web site with a lot of links that refer back to pages within the site. For example, web page A might be linked to my several different pages on the same site. I started plucker on this and it has been

Re: Problem with desktop for Windows

2002-10-21 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 21 Oct 2002 at 23:34, Martin Bodl k wrote: We realized that the problem occured when pluckerdir and pluckerhome was not pointing to the same directory. Is this known bug? Is it possible that clean install has those two directories set to different values? Does this make problem later

Re: Plucker Logo (Was Re: New Web Site)

2002-10-21 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 22 Oct 2002 at 10:00, Mark Lillywhite wrote: As for the name 'plucker', I guess I would be sad to see it changed but it is YOUR project and you should do with it as you will. But I would cringe if the name were to be changed to something like 'PalmPageGrabber' or some other bland

Plucker Logo (Was Re: New Web Site)

2002-10-21 Thread Robert O'Connor
But I have to admit I cringe somewhat when I see its 'pacifier' icon on my Palm screen. I'm not sure what the connection is between a superb off-line hypertext browser and a tool for calming crying babies. Why, you 'Pluck' the pacifier out of their mouths, and that's what causes the crying.

Re: Problem using Plucker Desktop 1.2.0.2 (Windows XP)

2002-10-20 Thread Robert O'Connor
Error: Runtime error parsing document http://www.dargonzine.org/dz155.shtml: unexpected char in declaration: '' Parsing failed. There was an error parsing the document because the document is illegal. For example, in that HTML source somebody put this: !- EDITORIAL BEGINS HERE -- !-

Re: Plucker/Desktop User's Guide for Windows

2002-10-18 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 18 Oct 2002 at 6:07, Fringe Ryder wrote: It probably does make sense to dedicate a page to palm-side options/configuration. You may wish to make it palm sized, ie just uses pieces of screenshots so that it can fit under 150 pixels width, like perhaps an image of a toolbutton, and a

Re: 1.2beta13-hires ready

2002-10-16 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 16 Oct 2002 at 14:44, Wayne A. Arthurton wrote: I'm running a NR70V I did a hard reset. Installed Plucker/Zlib and 2 DB from the Desktop Nothing else was installed on the palm. Still fatal exceptions. The Desktop doesn't have beta13 hi-res viewer if that is what you are using, since

Re: Python parser: What value for alt_maxwidth/alt_maxheight prevents alternate renditions

2002-10-15 Thread Robert O'Connor
Ok, so we agree. That's three of us for adding '0' as the identifier for None thus far. If you wish to set this in the default section, set it to '0' there, and override it in other subsections. This should be the case anyway, since you probably don't want alternate images in every

Re: Feature requests/ideas

2002-10-11 Thread Robert O'Connor
Ditto. Even a limited copy function would be nice. Perhaps a copy display to clipboard or even to memo (if that would be easier to implement). There was a viewer .prc prototype with export to memo support. It isn't going to be in 1.2 though. If you search through the archives you can

Re: internal bookmarks or anchors

2002-10-11 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 10 Oct 2002 at 10:19, Lana Slisenko wrote: Do anchors work in Plucker? When I click a link that should take me to a spot on the same page, the page flashes, but doesn't go anywhere. Does Plucker support anchors? Hi Lana, Yes, it does. Here is an example channel which makes heavy use of

Re: pattern filter problem

2002-10-11 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 11 Oct 2002 at 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using plucker desktop version 1.2.0.0 built Aug 30 2002 It seems that plucker is completely ignoring the URL patter I give. Any idea what I'm doing wrong ??? There was a bug in url_pattern in the python parser. I forget what it was, but

Re: http://plucker.gnu-designs.com not fetched

2002-10-07 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 7 Oct 2002 at 10:00, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: I cannot get http://plucker.gnu-designs.com (even for depth 1) Unable to reproduce this. Entering http://plucker.gnu-designs.com with maxdepth=1, and no images gives an expected result (verbosity=maximum output is pasted below). The generated

Re: Problem installing *-hires plucker versions

2002-10-04 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 4 Oct 2002 at 11:22, Lyle Stoll wrote: The Palm Desktop Installer shows the file as 135KB and adds the line invalid handheld file deleted to the log after it doesn't install it. How many characters is the filename? Does it end in .prc? Palm refused to load database on Win via their

RE: [Plucker Desktop] MSW Installer available: ToolHelp32 Bug - F ix?

2002-10-03 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 3 Oct 2002 at 12:34, Heath Hansell wrote: I have this funny feeling that my companies proxy may be caching your file and not actually delivering me the update I require. I think you have solved it. Will do as you suggest in the future. Best wishes, Robert

Re: Some questions about Plucker...

2002-10-02 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 2 Oct 2002 at 22:22, Dirk Böttcher wrote: Hi Dirk, I have some questions about it (v.1.1.13): You may want to consider moving up to 1.2 as 1.1.13 is now over a year old, so less people will know any bugs/issues of that version, that have been long since fixed. Regardless... 1. There are

Re: Large font instead of fixed-width

2002-10-02 Thread Robert O'Connor
I hope this is a (mis)configuation issue on my part. I really like Plucker. Unfortunately, I like to read programming books, and they use a lot of pre. You can't get rid of the pre in the parser or viewer. You are doomed! Doomed! (Sorry I don't get to say that much, and if I do it in

Re: Plucker Email Reflector (pler), v0.1.10 (need testers!)

2002-09-30 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 30 Sep 2002 at 23:08, Martin Bodl k wrote: standard e-mail app is not capable of installing PRCs or PDBs... but I can have LFtp (which is free) and download *and* *install* just the files I want... Is there any Free email replacements that do download attachments? What about the client

[Plucker Desktop] MSW Installer available: stayondomain, smaller python, fixed scheduling, minute due dates, prevent new consol

2002-09-28 Thread Robert O'Connor
An updated MSW installer is available. Plucker Desktop executable: - Fixed: scheduling (Tony) - Fixed: proper delete of channel if canceled it before finished an add (Tony) - Fixed: proper delete of newest added channel (Tony). - New tips-of-day (Greg). - Fixed: console window autoupdate will

Re: stayondomain/host, scheduler, memory leak

2002-09-26 Thread Robert O'Connor
The switches stayondomain and stayonhost doesn't seem to work. It still plucks pages beyond what I set it to do. When my logs were set to extensive, this error shows up: Processing http://mobile.theonion.com/... Retrieved ok. Ignoring invalid link

Stayondomain (Was Re: stayondomain/host, scheduler, memory leak)

2002-09-26 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 26 Sep 2002 at 15:58, Fringe Ryder wrote: At 06:48 PM 9/26/2002 -0400, David A. Desrosiers wrote: Here is the URL with Alice's kind patch: http://www.mail-archive.com/plucker-dev@rubberchicken.org/msg01626.html And don't forget that the patch in that message is exactly the

[Desktop] Solaris package available, Visual C++ project/instructions available, MSW installer available

2002-09-25 Thread Robert O'Connor
For Plucker Desktop: A Solaris package is available for download. This is due to virtuosity by Mr. Wesley Mason, who built it with GTK an Solaris 8. It can be downloaded from htp://desktop.plkr.org (under the linux section at the moment). A big thanks to Wesley for kindly providing this for

[MSW] A bmp2tbmp error on an old parser (Was RE: Plucker Desktop Failure - Toolhelp32)

2002-09-24 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 24 Sep 2002 at 14:05, Heath Hansell wrote: Command C:\Program Files\Plucker\Bmp2TBmp\Bmp2TBmp.exe -i=C:\WINNT\Profiles\ha nsellh\Local Settings\Temp\~330-1 -o=C:\WINNT\Profiles\hansellh\Local Settings\T emp\~330-2 -maxwidth=19 -maxheight=20 -compress=no -bpp=8 nul failed with code 1

Re: FEATURE-REQ: plucker-desktop: more command line switches...

2002-09-24 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 24 Sep 2002 at 9:34, Wesley Mason wrote: Hi Wesley, thanks for the detailed feedback. I'll add some notes to see what you think. Here is some stuff I'd like to see on the command line: Option Why nowindow When updating from cron or any background process I'd like

Re: MAXDEPTH not honored under certain conditions

2002-09-24 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 24 Sep 2002 at 19:05, Sitaram Chamarty wrote: For plucker-dev people (I'm not on that list, sorry - dont consider myself good enough for that), all I did was change two occurrences of -1 in def process to 0s. I am guessing Python arrays start at 0, not 1, but hey it seemed to work so I

Re: FEATURE-REQ: plucker-desktop: another column on the main view

2002-09-24 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 24 Sep 2002 at 10:52, Wesley Mason wrote: Is like to see a column on the main screen that contains the status of the last pluck. This could be set and maintained by the desktop. Even if it just is 'error, success, none' it would help. That way I could quickly find my failing channels

Re: Plucker scheduler problem

2002-09-24 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 24 Sep 2002 at 16:03, Fringe Ryder wrote: At 08:34 AM 9/25/2002 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Example: Say, I have a 'pluck' scheduled for 7 am in the morning each day, but I have it set to only do the plucking on demand. When I get to work at 8am, I tell it to go get the channel.

Re: MSW won't include linked, fullsize images (was Re: Horizontal Scrolling?)

2002-09-22 Thread Robert O'Connor
Whoops, caused another problem... 8 bit images not supported with PIL imaging yet. Using 4bpp greyscale. Yes. This is because Python didn't have Bill Janssen's patches for quantize at that time. They are now part of python. In a earlier message I wrote: The current PIL in the MSW

Re: Debugging a failed Pluck

2002-09-22 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 21 Sep 2002 at 20:36, Fringe Ryder wrote: Which leads me to the question... is Plucker in need of some helpfile/manual updates and additions? I'm a programmer but I give good docs. g Yes please! It would be a bonus being written from someone who is strong in programming, but new to

Re: Russian narrow font

2002-09-22 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 22 Sep 2002 at 16:49, Artem wrote: My palm is localised with CyrHack, when I read russian docs all fonts are working fine except the narrow font. Where this narrow font is coming from, from Plucker or from the system? FontHack does not show any font called narrow... Thank you In

Desktop update for MSW available: breadth-first, status_line_length, reduction methods, python21 pil2 parser

2002-09-22 Thread Robert O'Connor
A new version of the MSW Plucker Desktop is available. It can be downloaded and assessed from: http://desktop.plkr.org There is: -Plucker distiller is updated to Bill's new update for breadth-first vs. depth-first. This fixes the some pages aren't retrieved on sites like BBC, sci-fi channel,

Re: Plucker Document Icons

2002-09-20 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 20 Sep 2002 at 14:45, Wesley Mason wrote: So, my question is: What is the current file format for icons, and what color depths? Hi Wesley, I am up-to-date on this, as I had spent some time on it last week. There was a bug, that has now been corrected in the python parser app info block

DOC file support (Was Re: Plucker GUI)

2002-09-18 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 18 Sep 2002 at 15:24, Lyons, Chris wrote: [moved from plucker-team to plucker-list...intentionally this time ;-) ] First of all, let me say thank you for developing the GUI. In the past, I have downloaded Plucker several times, but I was never able to make it work (mostly due to my lack

RE: Plucker Desktop: Feature request: Install pdb to card

2002-09-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
Does anyone know of a workaround for this? Could the Plucker Desktop be taught to wake up the install directory? I'm sure it's some poke to the Registry somewhere. Perhaps the Palm CDK has some clues in there? Maybe it's a dropfile in the Install directory. You are right.

RE: Plucker Desktop: update progress/mouse issue?

2002-09-12 Thread Robert O'Connor
but the summary is that it looks like it will in fact do *some* processing behind the scenes to a point, and then it hits a wall and stops indefinitely until the mouse is moved. As if a small buffer is being filled, and then it as to wait. This is exactly what it does. Processing goes on in

Re: Plucker Desktop: update progress/mouse issue?

2002-09-11 Thread Robert O'Connor
I may have missed someone else posting this... but has anyone else had the funky issue for the windows plucker desktop where the progress bar (and progress in general) does not move unless you move the mouse around within the plucker desktop window? One of the cybercafes downtown has

RE: Plucker Desktop: Feature request: Install pdb to card

2002-09-10 Thread Robert O'Connor
Hi, On installing to card from Plucker Desktop: This can and will be done for Mac/MSW. The mail archives has threads about this. The implementation answer was found thanks to Plucker community help. However, as was mentioned, adding new features aren't the thing to be doing in the runup to a

Re: Issue: Full Color Images Size?

2002-09-10 Thread Robert O'Connor
I can view full color images such as JPEG files just fine as long as they're small. (For example if they're = 150x150 pixels.) However if it get's much larger than that (e.g. 200x200 px) it is automatically dumbed down to 8bit image viewing. (Yes, max width/height is set higher,

Re: Plucker Desktop: update progress/mouse issue?

2002-09-10 Thread Robert O'Connor
I may have missed someone else posting this... but has anyone else had the funky issue for the windows plucker desktop where the progress bar (and progress in general) does not move unless you move the mouse around within the plucker desktop window? I know it sounds bizarre, but it's true

Different strategies, and outcomes

2002-09-10 Thread Robert O'Connor
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-957394.html?tag=fd_top Seems like the charging-$6000-to-content-providers-or-shutting-them-off plan didn't pan out too well, for raising their karma among their audience. Trying to harvest more personal information from their users probably didn't help that

Re: Plucker Desktop: Feature request: Channel import file/format

2002-09-06 Thread Robert O'Connor
Regarding a import/export, I agree 100% with Wes and David. One thing that I was considering yesterday would be to also allow a few exclusions to go with the entry, instead of having to drag around a separate exclusionlist.txt for that entry, especially since the exclusions are the most

Re: AvantGo channels for Plucker

2002-09-06 Thread Robert O'Connor
I wish there was a page on the Plucker web site that had a list of urls. Maybe something like a guest book that could be updated by the users. Probably the people that would care the most about keeping things 100% up to date are the content providers, as it directly influences their

How to do multiple inclusions (Was Re: URL filtering not working)

2002-09-06 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 6 Sep 2002 at 7:10, David A. Desrosiers wrote: Can I write logial expressions in the conditions like www.allocine.com/films OR www.allocine.com/salles ??? It would help a bit more if you showed us the regular expression syntax you're using to limit those portions from the

Re: Plucker Desktop: Feature request: Channel import file/format

2002-09-06 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 6 Sep 2002 at 14:07, Wesley Mason wrote: Or just appeneding in general. Example: exclusion=0;-;http://mobile\.theonion\.com/cruft.* exclusion=0;-;http://mobile\.theonion\.com/somemorecruft.* And have the Desktop append them one after another internally. But this might also require a

Re: [plucker-list] Parser error message: deprecated( db_file, doc_file ) (Was: Sitescooper Error after install of desktop)

2002-09-02 Thread Robert O'Connor
The problem is Sitescooper doesn't use a fixed plucker.ini/.pluckerrc file, but instead generates one for each site it scoops. The easiest solution is to do a find/replace in the perl code for Sitescooper, I believe in file Main.pm for db_file and db_name and change them to

Re: [plucker-list] Parser error message: deprecated( db_file, doc_file ) (Was: Sitescooper Error after install of desktop)

2002-09-01 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 31 Aug 2002 at 19:34, Gary Paulson wrote: deprecated( db_file, doc_file ) NameError: deprecated Hi Gary, This is a parser issue, most likely. Bill Janssen is away on vacation so he can't give his input right now. Not looking at the parser code, but just that error message, it may

RE: [plucker-list] Plucker Desktop download available for assessment

2002-08-30 Thread Robert O'Connor
On 30 Aug 2002 at 10:51, Blake Winton wrote: It turns out what I actually meant was the tip-of-the-day text, not the tooltip text. (Thanks, Rob!) (Screenshot at http://bwinton.latte.ca/LightTooltip.png) Thanks for that. Changed, so now readable on all color settings. And now for number

[plucker-list] Plucker Desktop - Windows NT download available for testing

2002-08-30 Thread Robert O'Connor
Hi, A download is that should play better with NT. http://www.clinicalexam.com/pluckerdesktop/downloads/msw/ The part that wasn't cosher for WindowsNT has been removed (Wesley Mason). There were a few more minor things done also: -Uninstall startmenu icon now named Uninstall Plucker.

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