Nice program but... It assumes that one has a screen that is larger than the basic size. With myself having 640 by 480 pixels, I can't save any settings as the (I guess) Save or OK button is cut off by the dialog box being too small. It draws the dialogs as being smaller than the screen and without scroll bars. I can't see the bottom of most of the windows.
If you add scroll bars to the windows, I'll be able to use, sorry, test on a Windows 2000 Pro machine. Like the thought that has gone into it. Wish I could use it, even if it would import my existing databases. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 7:13 PM Subject: Plucker Desktop: Screenshots, (and a demo binary for Win) > > Firstly, Happy St. Patrick's Day!, from Dublin, Ireland > > Screenshots are here, thumbnailed and captioned: > http://www.rob.md/projects/plucker/2002_03_17/ > > > Comments are welcomed. > There is a Todo in CVS which can tell status of certain things also. > > Unfortunately, I introduced a bug in the main dialog of the GTK binary the day before > Michael left, so a GTK test package couldn't be created yet. I sent away for some > ISOs and will eventually have a second 86 computer ready for GTK dev. An OSX > laptop from the college will become available this week. > > A Windows binary is available for download here: > http://www.rob.md/projects/plucker/2002_03_14/plucker_desktop.zip > > For Windows installation, unzip the zip with directories intact and put everything in a > plucker_desktop dir in the Plucker Directory, so that have a dir structure similar to > this, if installed Plucker to C:\Program Files\Plucker\: > C:\Program Files\Plucker\plucker_desktop\plucker-desktop.exe > C:\Program Files\Plucker\plucker_desktop\resource > C:\Program Files\Plucker\plucker_desktop\resource\xrc\main_dialog.xrc > C:\Program Files\Plucker\plucker_desktop\langs > (and so on). > Then click plucker-desktop.exe to start. > > This is pre-alpha. It may not work at all, may work partially, may work, or may cause > your computer to catch fire. In addition to the GTK (by Michael), 3 Windows systems > have been tested: > --A Windows95B with Palm Desktop 3.0.1: works well, just the polish stuff in TODO > yet to do. > --A Windows2000 with no Palm Desktop installed: works well, but assert mentions a > static label assert (perhaps the empty label at the bottom of the main dialog), first run > mentions that can't create a template folder (then works fine after), an exclusion dialog > issue, and channel manager list should be made longer so main dialog > advanced tab > doesn't clip (or, this custom widget should be made to autosize, which would be a > better solution). > --A Windows95B German version with Palm Desktop (by Dirk): Works poorly: reading > of user.dat goes out of sync, asserts of window rect size, and then won't initialize. > > This is a debug build, similar to PalmOS debug roms, in that there are asserts to warn > when things aren't programmed as they should be, but not all things will cause a non- > debug version to stop. > > If you give it a go, and want to send feedback for asserts/crashes, most useful is to > send back the debugging info leading up to it. There is some bugs that need to be > crushed yet, and a test on different systems is probably the best way to find them. A > freeware viewer to log debug messages can be downloaded here: > http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/debugview.shtml > > Best wishes, > Robert _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
