On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 12:53:11PM -0800, Taras wrote: > >It probably crashed because no one anticipated that anyone would be > >doing it that way :) Might be an easy fix though. Which version are > >you running? > > > high_res..which is the stuff you maintain, right?
I meant which version of viewer specifically are you running? Goto 'Options' > 'About Plucker' > >Well, it wouldn't quite work that way. The idea I was playing around > >involve actually storing the images inside the .pdb as a png, not as a > >tbmp. Plus, since png files can be compressed it would help out > >(though not solve) the 64k limitation on images. > > > Why wouldn't it solve the limitation? I was talking of storing the pngs > inside the pdb. Becuase the 64K limitation is on the hotsync protocol, not on plucker. According to the specifications the max size for a single record is 64K. To plucker, a record can be defined as one page of text, or a single image. This is the same reason as to why people complain when their large html pages are split up into multiple plucker pages. > I'm not sure about this. Is that how pinger renders them? And I really > like pinger's ability to display pngs on lower depth devices. This would > make distribution of pdb files feasable..just have one pdb file with 1 > or 2 nice photos in it and every device would be able to use the same > file and get at the content on it. There's no function on the palm called WinDrawPng(), but there is one called WinDrawBitmap() In order to do this properly, we need to convert the png format into the tbmp format before it can be displayed using the native-palm API. > Only the initial load time since you could quite feasibly cache the > tbmps. Besides devices are getting faster, not slower so as you move > forward the speed is less of an issue. true. > So pngs fit my needs very nicely. Unfortunately I don't have much > experience programming on the palms or even graphics programming, so I > can't implement the features on the palm and either have to use whats > there and compensate on the generation side or suggest features and > hope someone else likes them. Since you've never programmed anything like this before, you underestimate the work required to convert from format A into format B transparently. Believe me, it's not simple. Either way, it'll probably be along time before this png support makes the light of day. Too much work, and I've already promised too many other things already. > Just one feature request, could you enable scrollbar scrolling when > running high_res on a lowres device? Sure,.. I'm also going to re-enable it for OS5 -- Adam McDaniel Array.org Calgary, AB, Canada _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
