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After tinkering around with beta 13 a bit, I came up with some small
ideas that could probably sneak their way into the viewer pre or post 1.2's
relase. I've mentioned two of these before on the list, I think:
1. The "Manual update of document list" option could be broken out
into a dropdown, with the following layout:
Update Document List: | Manually
| Internal Storage | (rom and ram)
| External Storage | (vfs, sd, ms, cf)
| All Storage |
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What this does, is allow the document list for people without
external docs on cards _installed_ to still have an automatic
refresh, but not incur the delay of scanning for Plucker docs on
those cards. The 'Manually' option could also be considered a
'None' option.
For me, I switch cards in and out frequently, and use Plucker
just as frequently. If I have a huge card installed, full of
hundreds of (non-Plucker) files, I can set it to scan
automatically (which takes quite awhile) or I can do it manually
(which also takes quite awhile). Having the ability to scan
_only_ internal storage, would speed that process up
considerably.
2. Store the viewer's bpp value for _each_ document inside the
MyDoc-Plkr.pdb file, instead of globally to _all_ documents
viewed in Plucker. This gives us a few advantages. If I have a
document that contains images plucked at 4bpp, and then launch a
document with images plucked at 16bpp, with Plucker set to
16bpp... I'll see the [img] tags for the 4bpp document, and the
proper images for the 16bpp document. Yes, I can switch back and
forth for each document I read, but that's an extra step _per
doc_ that I'd rather not have to incur every time I open them.
3. While in the Document Library, if I have 200 documents listed
there, scrolling up and down becomes a pain, when I know the
document I want to tap on and launch. Having the ability to
graffiti an 'S' for example, to jump to the docs which begin with
'S' would be a great shortcut. Similar for other alphanumeric
characters. This could become a bit weird with other non-'Name'
sort orders, but could still be controlled in a top-down
searching fashion. (Note, this is only by typing/graffiti'ing the
first letter, not dot-slash-shortcut-letter, which would collide
with the menu accellerators)
Yes, I know I could make them _all_ launchable docs, stick them
in a 'Plucker' category in my standard Palm launcher, and just
graffiti to them that way, but the filename on the pdb is not the
same as the title displayed in the Document Library, unless I
make it such, and this would only work with documents I can
control or rename on my own.
What does everyone think?
d.
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