> 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.
Really close...
Robert O'Connor has already thought of this, IIRC.
The AvantGo conduit works like this :
* contact the AvantGo server, identify the user (the conduit setup has this
info
* the server fecthes/parses all the pages of the registered channels, using
cache as much as it can
* during this step, the conduit just displays a progress bar ("fetched P
pages out of M", M increments while fetching pages)
* the server generates the "home page" for the user, containing links to
the channles (equivalent to the library in Plucker)
* the server then converts pages to the proprietary format and send them to
the conduit (maybe the pages are send to the conduit and then converted)
* the conduit disconnects from the server
* the conduit compares each page fetched from the one on the Palm and send
modified records to the Palm itself (maybe pages that missed the HTTP cache
on the server are still not modified and don't need to be transfered to the
device)
* a second progress bar to displayed during this process (the number of
transfered pages is usually less than the number of pages fetched).
The whole process if quite long : my HotSync process last 2 or 3 minutes
(sometimes 5) and results in 380kB (compressed) of pages on the Palm. The
AvantGo conduit is the longer conduit I have.
NH
_______________________________________________
plucker-dev mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-dev
