David A. Desrosiers
Saturday May 22nd 2004 - 01:37:27

What would you do for a Plucker? Plucker 1.8 is out!

If you find Plucker useful, and want to support the project, please visit
our donate page to find out how to contribute to help support Plucker's
development and maturity.

Any bugs you find, please report them in our bug tracker. Make sure to
search existing bug reports for similar errors before posting a new bug
report. Many times, bugs are reported in duplicate by several users because
they didn't search the existing bugs reported for similar problems.


List of items fixed, changed, and added in 1.8 and 1.7.2 releases can be
found on our website. The details of this release are also on the project
website.


User stuff

  * DIA support! This means you can use the "Direct Input Area" on your
    Tungsten T3 device, or other oddly-sized devices (Alphasmart Dana,
    TapWave Zodiac, and others) with Plucker in full-screen mode.
    (Alexander Pruss)

  * Dictionary lookup support. If you use RoadLingua, you can now use their
    dictionaries to look up words directly from within Plucker.

  * i-mode support (Dave Maddock)

  * The 5-way support in the library has been changed. (Michael Nordström)

  * New behaviour:

      * If the list of documents is only one page then the fiveway will be
        activated from the beginning.

      * If the displayed list of documents includes the last accessed
        document then the fiveway will be activated.

      * The select/centre button will activate the fiveway and the
        initially selected document will be the last accessed document or
        if that document isn't visible the document at the middle of the
        page will be selected. When the fiveway is activated the
        select/centre button will open the selected document.

      * The up/down button will either scroll the list one page up/down
        (when the fiveway isn't activated) or select the previous/next
        document in the list (when the fiveway is activated).

      * The left button will deactivate the fiveway or if the fiveway isn't
        activated it will exit the viewer. When the list of documents is
        only one page pressing left will exit the viewer instead of
        deactivate the fiveway.

      * The right button will display the popup list with different actions
        for the selected document (when the fiveway is activated). When the
        fiveway isn't activated the right button will not result in any
        action.

  * The following preferences have been removed:

      * "Enable dynamic scrollbar"; always disabled.

      * "Enable visual aid"; always enabled.

      * "Click sound for links"; always enabled (i.e. it uses the setting
        for "system sound").

  * Faster rotation. (Alexander Pruss)

  * Faster anti-aliased fonts on 68K. (Alexander Pruss)

  * Support for (slow) colored anti-aliased text in 8bpp. (Alexander Pruss)

  * Anti-aliased fonts now work with colored backgrounds. (Alexander Pruss)

  * Support for font remapping via font package. (Alexander Pruss)

  * Italic font support. (Alexander Pruss)

  * Kerning for antialiased fonts. Requires version 0.70+ of PalmFontConv.
    (Alexander Pruss)

  * Font packages can be put on VFS either in /Palm/Launcher/ or in
    /Palm/Programs/Plucker/Fonts/ (Alexander Pruss)

  * You can now tap on a word to either put the word in the search form or
    to look it up in a dictionary. (Alexander Pruss)

  * Added Plucker Plugin Interface (PPI) to configure the interface with
    third-party dictionary programs. (Chris Hawks)

  * Added Catalan translation (Albert Cuesta)

  * Added Norwegian translation (Geir-Tore Lindsve)

  * Added option to select whether the sort by date should use only the
    date or if it should use both date and time (faster, but could make the
    list look 'unsorted'). (Michael Nordström)

  * The external card support will be disabled when the device detects a
    low power situation to avoid errors when trying to access the card
    through VFS. (Michael Nordström)

  * External bookmarks support in viewer. (Dave Maddock)

  * When the library is sorted by name, you can select a document by
    entering the first couple of characters. (Alexander Pruss)

  * The parser when using the Python Imaging Library will now automatically
    reduce the depth of black-and-white images to 1-bit, thereby decreasing
    file size. (Alexander Pruss)

  * Drop-in transliteration module support added, and built-in
    transliterations removed. (Alexander Pruss)

  * Full support for DIA on Handera, Sony and PalmOS 5.2+ units, including
    landscape if the hardware supports it. (Alexander Pruss)

  * Full support for Dana AlphaSmart wide and tall modes. (Alexander Pruss)


Development stuff

  * Support for unit test using PalmCUnit Nordström)

If you find Plucker useful, and want to support the project, please visit
our donate page to find out how to contribute to help support Plucker's
development and maturity.


The Plucker Team
plucker-dev@plkr.org