Hi Plucker folk,
First of all, thank you for developing Plucker, and making it available
as open source.
I had almost given up my search for open source HTML rendering software
for Palm, when I stumbled across Plucker.
Things I really like:
1) Excellent rendering - Plucker's conversion or display engine makes
good decisions about how to display intricate HTML docs within Palm's
display constraints
2) Entire HTML trees getting packed into one document. A refreshingly
intelligent and natural approach
3) Use of ZLib. Smart move. No more need to be said.
4) Great conversion tool. I converted an HTML tree, which itself was
generated from LaTeX files by latex2html. The end result in Plucker is
pretty damn good! :)
5) Configurability of buttons and screen taps. Very nice!
Opportunities for improvement
1) Might be nice to create a bookmarks list with the text of all links
2) The autoscroll isn't working well for me. I'm using an m100 (20MHz
PalmOS 3.5). Due to switch to a IIIc, which won't improve in the speed
stakes.
The autoscroll is desperately needing optimisation - with a book I
converted, I couldn't find an autoscroll setting that makes for
comfortable reading.
I've tried all the speed settings and pixels-per-scroll settings. When I
set 1px/scroll, and turn up the speed, the CPU thrashes, and the scroll
is too slow for reading. At higher px/scroll settings, the display is
too jumpy. If you can't optimise the autoscroll, perhaps another
approach might be to go for the line moving down the screen, with the
current page above the line and the previous page below the line.
I guess SuperDoc wins the autoscroll war - such a shame it's shareware
and that some of its code can't be plundered
3) Compiling. If there are any of you using Debian GNU/Linux, can you
please advise what I need to do to compile the stuff in plucker_desktop?
The plucker viewer builds fine (phew!), but no luck with the desktop
stuff. I've installed all the wxwindows stuff which seems to be needed,
and everything else I can think of, but still getting compile failures.
For example:
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/david/palm/plucker/plucker_desktop'
gcc -g -O2 `wxgtk-config --cflags` -c -o checkbox_message_dialog.o
checkbox_message_dialog.cpp
/bin/sh: line 1: wxgtk-config: command not found
In file included from /usr/include/wx/wxprec.h:13,
from checkbox_message_dialog.cpp:39:
/usr/include/wx/defs.h:224: wx/setup.h: No such file or directory
In file included from checkbox_message_dialog.cpp:47:
/usr/include/wx/utils.h:23: wx/setup.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/include/wx/event.h:27,
from /usr/include/wx/window.h:23,
from /usr/include/wx/generic/panelg.h:23,
from /usr/include/wx/panel.h:4,
from /usr/include/wx/dialog.h:20,
from checkbox_message_dialog.cpp:48:
/usr/include/wx/thread.h:21: wx/setup.h: No such file or directory
checkbox_message_dialog.cpp:80: wx/artprov.h: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [checkbox_message_dialog.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/david/palm/plucker/plucker_desktop'
make: *** [plucker-desktop] Error 2
Cheers
David
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