I understand, I think. The gripe is that the site-scraping is separate from the hotsynching.
Since I set up the site-scraping to occur before I wake up, it hadn't occurred to me that this was an issue. Is there a way to initiate hotsynching from the desktop? My Palm IIIc doesn't appear to support that in the Palm Desktop. At 10:24 AM 9/24/2002 -0400, Bill Nalen wrote: > >Would you mind terribly elaborating what you mean by this? I'm not > >familiar with AvantGo. > >Avantgo is a competitor of sorts of Plucker. It allows you to specify html >content to view offline. It works in a different way than Plucker, the >format is proprietary, and it costs money to list content with Avantgo >(although the viewer is free). However, I think their delivery mechanism >is pretty good for Windows users. You select your content through a web >interface (on their server), download their software (once), and press >hotsync. Because this is so simple, most Palm users I know have Avantgo >installed on their Palm. > >Without the Plucker desktop, Plucker users have to edit a text file to >change options, run the parser (which requires Python & Tcl), then sync >their Palm. There's a lot more user knowledge needed and more room for >mistakes. I felt like this was only aimed at "power users". I think the >Plucker desktop does a lot to encourage Plucker use on Windows. It gives a >familiar interface instead of text files and it uses widgets for the >options instead of options in the text file. But it still requires two >operations, run the desktop to produce the pdb and a second operation to >sync the Palm. IMHO, I think what is missing is a conduit (probably using >the Plucker desktop channels & options) to make it a one step process (once >the channels are set up). I think we are close to this too. > >I realize that providing parsing with hotsyncing may not be desirable for a >lot of Plucker users since the process could take a long time. Or perhaps >they don't want to run it every time they sync. Also, a lot of Plucker >users are using Linux which doesn't have a conduit type system (I'm pretty >sure). But providing this option would benefit a lot of users (well at >least Windows users :-) > >Bill > >_______________________________________________ >plucker-dev mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev _______________________________________________ plucker-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
