As a developer myself, I'm interested in getting involved plucker's development. I've been trying to compile the viewer from cvs myself. I've got a copy of prc tools for my platform (mac os x) and I've had no luck thus far. I think I'll need to rewrite the makefile :( I can't just type make, I have to specify make -f Makefile.in with the cwd as <source>/viewer. Then I get @SHELL@ no such command... I am using gnu make, but I can't say I do most of my development using makefiles (so I't quite possible I'm doing something stupid).
In the meantime, are there any precompiled prcs for the newer builds (I've got the latest one from hires.plkr.org but I suspect thats a fair way off where cvs is now)? I looked but couldn't find any.
I'm interested in doing this because I want to get an idea of where development is up to, and to see if there's anything I might be able to contribute. Specifically, I was wondering about the following
tables - which, from the mailing list, I figure a fair bit may have been done
faster screen updates - I played with iSilo - no, not as a traitor, but to see how much of the functionality of a commercial product we don't have. Well done plucker developers. I can see no reason to pay for iSilo when a free and equally functional product exists! One thing did strike me when using iSilo, however, and that was the scrolling speed. When you use on-screen drag strokes to scroll around iSilo is much faster. I think plucker could be made much faster in that respect if the text was rendered for a half-screen above the displayed area, and a half-screen below. That way, the screen update whilst scrolling would be a simple copy to screen. When the user lets go, the offscreen parts are rendered (this is actually not too slow as the user will probably want to read something before scrolling again). Anyway, the screen can't be scrolled by more than it's height using onscreen drag - so you might get quite a speedup that way. Just a thought.
Cheers
George Harker
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