> The plucker system is perhaps the most usefull tool (and toy for that
> matter) for the palm pilot. if I was a programmer of any quality I would
> help develop, but as I am not, I can only give sugjestions.
We openly welcome any help and suggestions, but the more 'nebulous'
ones should be sent to plucker-list, not plucker-dev. We get pretty technical
here sometimes, and don't want to scare you away =)
> first and foremost, add Doc reading capability i know you can read doc
> compression, but you can't read othes r docs you installed.. if you can
> do this, that will double the use and qualty af this app, and if it can
> read and format HTML tags in the doc's text, that would triple it.
DOC compression is not the same as DOC formatted files, though it
would be "somewhat" easy to add support for DOC as a plugin, much like SysZLib
is to Plucker now. We talked about this about a year or more ago several
times. There are some logic changes that have to happen to support that.
> I format on the palm in html, and if you could add the ability to read the
> tags, it would make proophreadin so much easyer.
^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
proof-reading easier
Just kidding.
> something else to add is the ability to rotate the screen. it is usefull
> for reading one handed, and has proven invaluble in CSPOTRUN, and could
> make reading much easyer.
You can do this with any number of hacks which do it. Adding this code
to Plucker for a very minimal number of users would unnecessarily bloat the
application size, and should be left to external programs to handle via the
SysTraps.
You may want to try FlipHack, found here:
http://www.byteswapped.com/palm/
I can see where this might be a nice feature on the Handera, though it
already includes a built-in rotation mode. Why would you want to rotate an
already-set 160x160 screen? It's the same size upside-down as left-turned, as
right-turned, as right-side-up.
/d
