Firstly, Happy St. Patrick's Day!, from Dublin, Ireland

Screenshots are here, thumbnailed and captioned:
http://www.rob.md/projects/plucker/2002_03_17/


Comments are welcomed. 
There is a Todo in CVS which can tell status of certain things also.

Unfortunately, I introduced a bug in the main dialog of the GTK binary the day before 
Michael left, so a GTK test package couldn't be created yet. I sent away for some 
ISOs and will eventually have a second 86 computer ready for GTK dev. An OSX 
laptop from the college will become available this week.

A Windows binary is available for download here:
http://www.rob.md/projects/plucker/2002_03_14/plucker_desktop.zip

For Windows installation, unzip the zip with directories intact and put everything in 
a 
plucker_desktop dir in the Plucker Directory, so that have a dir structure similar to 
this, if installed Plucker to C:\Program Files\Plucker\:
C:\Program Files\Plucker\plucker_desktop\plucker-desktop.exe
C:\Program Files\Plucker\plucker_desktop\resource
C:\Program Files\Plucker\plucker_desktop\resource\xrc\main_dialog.xrc
C:\Program Files\Plucker\plucker_desktop\langs
(and so on).
Then click plucker-desktop.exe to start.

This is pre-alpha. It may not work at all, may work partially, may work, or may cause 
your computer to catch fire. In addition to the GTK (by Michael), 3 Windows systems 
have been tested:
--A Windows95B with Palm Desktop 3.0.1: works well, just the polish stuff in TODO 
yet to do.
--A Windows2000 with no Palm Desktop installed: works well, but assert mentions a 
static label assert (perhaps the empty label at the bottom of the main dialog), first 
run 
mentions that can't create a template folder (then works fine after), an exclusion 
dialog  
issue, and channel manager list should be made longer so main dialog > advanced tab 
doesn't clip (or, this custom widget should be made to autosize, which would be a 
better solution).
--A Windows95B German version with Palm Desktop (by Dirk): Works poorly: reading 
of user.dat goes out of sync, asserts of window rect size, and then won't initialize.

This is a debug build, similar to PalmOS debug roms, in that there are asserts to warn 
when things aren't programmed as they should be, but not all things will cause a non-
debug version to stop.

If you give it a go, and want to send feedback for asserts/crashes, most useful is to 
send back the debugging info leading up to it. There is some bugs that need to be 
crushed yet, and a test on different systems is probably the best way to find them. A 
freeware viewer to log debug messages can be downloaded here:
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/debugview.shtml

Best wishes,
Robert

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