Does plucker desktop use the proxy settings when viewing the showcase? I'm trying to view showcase items on my work NT system, to check if my crashing (which was at home on my XP system) was due to images in the preview. I just get Chanel Preview unavailable.
>From: "Robert O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Plucker Desktop [MSW version]: success on 95, 98, Win2000, NT >Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 05:47:24 -0000 > >Hi Anthony, > > > Ok, I've got it working on XP and NT4 (didn't try the manifest theme >stuff > > on XP yet) > >That's excellent. Glad to hear of your success. > > > I'm glad you mentioned the registry key in your message, as I > > went to the key, and found it pointing to the non-existant >flingit\plucker > > directory. Fixed this, and I was up and running. Wow, this makes setup > > easier. > >Nice catch. > > > Only problems so far is that browsing the chanel showcase seems to crash >the > > plucker desktop after a few seconds. > >Does it cause the error upon clicking a certain 2 or 3 of the channels? If >so, then most >likely the GIF handler. A bug was caught in the generic GIF library used by >wx that >would causes an error on some GIFs with odd stuff in them. This is >corrected in the >next release of wxWindows. You can test whether it is the images by turning >the >images off: In >Main dialog > Shared Settings > Advanced Preferences > Showcase >there is a checkbox marked >"Include images in channel previews" >Uncheck that to strip images from the showcase previews. Perhaps this >should be >unchecked by default anyway, as it makes the previews render faster. > > > >To install: > > >1. Unzip the folder recursively, to get a plucker_desktop directory and > > >everything > > >inside. > > > > This was showing in my hotmail: plucker directory instead of > > plucker_directory. Probably just something wierd on my system. I think >I'm > > still using the default IE6 fonts. > >That's certainly something that one certainly wouldn't expect. Good to have >that tidbit >filed away on the mail list, in case it happens to someone else. > >Best wishes, >Robert _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
