Re: Plucker Desktop Windows conduit

[Bill Nalen]

Robert wrote:
>Nicely done Bill! That's great work! Will certainly have to roll that into the downloads (your
>desktop viewer also, and the other nice additions) for the next release.

Thanks

>Thanks for catching this. I also prefer in commandline mode that it would just end silently
>(but keep the message dialog for if in GUI mode, and they pressed a button, get a message to
>tell them what happened). I will add it to the buglist and correct it straight away.

Great.  I can live with it till the next release.

>You may wish to put in a if condition when the conduit is called, to look at the autoupdate
>mode in the plucker.ini to see if it is a '3'.

Yup.  Have this on the to do list.  Users can also turn off the conduit the regular way with the "Do Nothing" option in the hotsync dialog.

>Perhaps you may wish to put it in the Plucker.ini to make it more portable though across Linux
>and Macintosh also. (And also easier editing)
>Perhaps as a:  
>[PLUCKER_DAEMON]
>sync_commandline=<as desired>

I will use the plucker.ini file.  If the option doesn't exist, I'll create it during the sync from the registry values for the path to plucker.

>Another option would be to for the conduit to write a value of a user to the ini for what the
>value of username-filter would be. For example:
>[PLUCKER_DAEMON]
>autoupdate_mode=3
>username_filter=Bill Nalen

>Then have the fixed commandline in the registry as just:
>plucker-desktop --update-due --userame-filter
>and if no value for username-filter is given, it will get the value from
>PLUCKER_DAEMON > username_filter and filter to that user name.

This option would probably be best since the user could override it doing just one person's channels by leaving off the --username-filter.  So if I read you right I'd do:
-get command line from ini file
-write username_filter to be the current sync'ing user
-call command line
-wait till done

I think you are using Innosetup for the installer right?  I plan to use it for this.  I can send you the setup script if you want to incorporate it into your installer.  I'll probably have this stuff ready by Monday.

Thanks
Bill