Re: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread MJ Ray
"Robert O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] Can certainly add in a way to specify > some custom behaviour to execute at the end of the Sync. Pluck not sync, right? I want to run a command after a successful pluck -- or is this only to be fired off by a sync process, at which point the

Re: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread MJ Ray
"Robert O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am certainly open to what to call the things other than channels; it is > easier to specify the term now than more time spent rewriting things. [...] I vote for "a pluckable (site)", rather than a channel. To me, channel implies that you're goin

RE: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I am certainly open to what to call the things other than channels; it > is easier to specify the term now than more time spent rewriting things. I understand that. It would be harder to have to "undo" anything we implement now, using a term that doesn't fully explain our architecture

RE: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread Robert O'Connor
> > let's not call this a "Channel" please. We > > do not want to continue the incorrect association (legally, morally, > > ethically) with "That Other Product", do we? Can we think of another > > name for this? > > People already understand the concept of TV channels. I don't see why > this is a

Re: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I may not understand what "That Other Product" is. Just a few examples: http://avantgo.com/channels/index.html http://avantgo.com/support/mobile_support/palm/device/index.html http://avantgo.com/support/mobile_support/palm/desktop/dksubscribe.html I'm

Re: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"David A. Desrosiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stop stop stop... let's not call this a "Channel" please. We > do not want to continue the incorrect association (legally, morally, > ethically) with "That Other Product", do we? Can we think of another > name for this? People already und

RE: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Now that's something to think about--adding some sort of command line > gateway to the manager also, to let people still update their channels > without a windows manager. Certainly have to consider how to build a GUI > manager so that it is still accessible with a command line. Smells

RE: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> The overall polish of the programs way also quite good. Mahogany really > has a lot of options for email, but somehow still couldn't prevent me > from paying internet time by the minute to download spam and Sircam > attachment files. :) I personally don't like gui applications for mail

RE: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Was considering the concept of making a channel 'Due'. When the program > is running, or is started, it looks at the time when the Channel was [...] Stop stop stop... let's not call this a "Channel" please. We do not want to continue the incorrect association (legally, morally, ethical

RE: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread Robert O'Connor
> > Does it have to be running to do timed plucks correctly, or will it > > notice when it's next started that it's time to do some plucking? > > ..and more importantly, what if there's no GUI running when it's > time to spawn a "pluck"? Now that's something to think about--adding some sort

RE: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread Robert O'Connor
> searches around..., AH!) > > http://mahogany.sourceforge.net/ > http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ I was quite happy with both of these program's speed on my very anemic little laptop--run very nice. The overall polish of the programs way also quite good. Mahogany really has a lot of

RE: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread Robert O'Connor
Hi MJ, > One thing that would be very useful is the > ability to execute some command after a successful pluck, so that the > plucked file will appear in the list of files to be transferred at the > next sync. Sounds like a good idea. Right now there is a radio button to choose between sending t

Re: making plucker-build easier to use?

2001-10-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> > DO NOT EVER SEND BINARY DATA TO STDOUT, BAD! > It's easy to check whether stdout is a terminal, lookup isatty(3C). I > agree that sending binary data to the terminal is a bad thing. (GNU zip > does this check when you feed it data from stdin.) I wasn't implying that precautions co

Re: making plucker-build easier to use?

2001-10-13 Thread Kjetil Torgrim Homme
"David A. Desrosiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DO NOT EVER SEND BINARY DATA TO STDOUT, BAD! It's easy to check whether stdout is a terminal, lookup isatty(3C). I agree that sending binary data to the terminal is a bad thing. (GNU zip does this check when you feed it data from stdin.

Re: Hi and short bug report

2001-10-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Is that problem know and is there any support for Handera planned. I > voluntere to test on that device :) This may help: http://plkr.org/list/4Q2001/0076.html /d

Re: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I believe it uses GTK+ widgets on Unix, doesn't it? There is a wxWindows for GTK+ http://www.wxwindows.org/faqgtk.htm > Does it have to be running to do timed plucks correctly, or will it > notice when it's next started that it's time to do some plucking? ..and more

Re: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> It is written in C++ in wxWindows (which I believe is included in > Debian). The resources are an XML file (which I was waiting for, and are > now available in wxWindows 2.3.1). Since a GUI app, most of the work is > widgets and a separation of code from an easily hand-editable resource > file

Re: making plucker-build easier to use?

2001-10-13 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> Both interesting ideas, though perhaps not for Plucker. Incidentally, I > deleted his note, or I'd forward it along. I keep "most" of my relevant mail, so if necessary, I'll forward it along.. if Norm does not object. > However, it got me thinking about the plucker-build command line

Re: Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread MJ Ray
"Robert O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > wxWindows is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit. Makes small footprint, fast > apps for Linux, Windows, and Mac using widgets for the appropriate OS. I believe it uses GTK+ widgets on Unix, doesn't it? > Examples of existing programs are Audacity (wa

Hi and short bug report

2001-10-13 Thread Torsten Uhlmann
Hi everybody, I just subscribed to your mailing list. I downloaded Plucker 1.1.13 (the newest one) and installed it on my Handera 330. I found that I cannot run it in the scale-to-fit mode, but only with 160x160 Pixel. Is that problem know and is there any support for Handera planned. I volunt

Plucker Desktop GUI Manager

2001-10-13 Thread Robert O'Connor
In reply to Alexandros and MJ's letter, I thought I would drop a note to show what I am working on now that color support is done, though it is not near finished yet. It is written in C++ in wxWindows (which I believe is included in Debian). The resources are an XML file (which I was waiting for,

RE: making plucker-build easier to use?

2001-10-13 Thread Robert O'Connor
> Would it be easier to use Plucker, cognitively or otherwise, if we > could, in a simple situation, just say > > plucker-build foo.txt >foo.pdb > > or > > plucker-build http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets >csets.pdb > Seems like a very good idea. People who have hard-coded plucke

RE: Color text,anchor,hr,table,bi-tone-image support

2001-10-13 Thread Robert O'Connor
> Robert, > > I'd like to keep the document format document up-to-date. What's the > function code you are using for forecolor_start, and what are its > arguments? I'll update the doc, marking it as experimental until we > commit it. > > I could download the zip file and look, but I thought