Hi all,
Maybe I missed it, but I couldn't find the feedback address for Plucker
Desktop in all of http://desktop.plkr.org/.
I have a few comments that I would like to pass on. Could someone
please give me the address? Thanks...
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Now, just in case the address is the same as for the main Plucker tool,
here goes:
1. Plucker desktop breaks the effect of
max_tbmp_size = 60000
try_reduce_bpp = false
Background: I have a 16-bit color Palm (M-515) and I like full color
images, even if it means the size is reduced.
Plucker 1.1.13 does this fine (with verbosity=2, you even get a nice
list of "trying 90%...", "trying 80%..." type messages, until at some
point the bmp size is < 60k).
But the moment you install Plucker Desktop, this breaks.
2. It seems to hang sometimes, for reasons I have not had time to
figure out. (Sorry to sound like a typical newbie - "it doesn't work"
:-) If I find time to investigate this further and determine some
actual reason I will email you. Meanwhile, treat this as just FYI :-)
Plucker (plain) has *never* hung on me yet :-)
3. The plain (textfile-based) plucker allows me to hotsync more than
one database at a time. I know this is not a bug, and I know enough to
realise this may even be a fundamental design issue with having a GUI,
but it was one of the factors. Worse, if I run a set of updates all
together, and say the last of them hangs and I have to kill it, then
*none* of the databases make it to the Palm "Install" directory.
In other words, I have to run them sequentially to avoid this. Run one,
wait for it to complete (or hang - kill), then the next, etc.
(But see next issue :-)
4. If the internal scheduler granularity is set lesser than the time
taken to download one database (say I have a very large one which takes
more than 10 minutes, the default granularity), then Plucker Desktop
starts up another session! Even more interesting, when they both
complete, I still have no PDB file in C:\Palm\MYName\Install!
Otherwise it looks great. I love many of the features, but these
problems (especially #1 at the top) prevent me from using it. (Don't
tell me that's because of the change from Bmp2Tbmp to netpbm2, and that
therefore even "plain old plucker" will no longer do this come 1.2 ! :-)
Thanks for a great product, in spite of all this. Plucker itself (the
main product) is a God-send for me in many ways!
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Sitaram
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