> 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.
Hi Sitaram, thanks for your letter. The distiller has changed and been improved a lot since 1.1.13 which is now more than a year old. plucker-build commandline is still available, and you can test the distiller script directly to help pinpoint your problem. > 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 :-) Can't help much on that one until there is some steps to reproduce. Sorry ;-) > 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. That is a design decision and is unlikely to change. On Linux, to install files to the handheld, you push the hotsync button to move the files. If there was an install after each channel update, then the Linux user would have to sit there by the machine, pressing the hotsync button each time. When the lot is installed at the end, there only needs to be one button press. Introducing an #ifdefcode fork for installing each one sequentially on MSW makes proper maintenance more difficult. If you like DOS consoles, you can use them: Preferences dialog > Spidering tab > Show progress with [console window]. > 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! Thanks. I'll take a look. This shouldn't happen--a flag gets turned on and off to tell whether it is okay to start a new autoupdate. There may have been a miss of the flag setting at some point. > 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 ! :-) The MSW doesn't use netpbm2, it uses Bmp2Tbmp. Dirk has written some all-in-one PIL parsers, but IIRC correctly there weren't quite as mature as PIL+Bmp2Tbmp. Best wishes, Robert _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
