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ipl · 11-30-2006, 09:37 AM

Assuming anyone else is interested, here's what I've found:

Plucker Desktop doesn't appear to let you set the command-line parameters, but does have a tick box for 'use enhanced table support (currently experimental)' (On the 'formatting' tab of the 'configure channel' dialog). I think this may cause spider.py to be called with the --tables argument.

If you tick this box and sync with a page with a very simple table e.g.

<TABLE>
<TR>
<TD>A1
<TD>A2
<TD>A3
<TR>
<TD>B1
<TD>B2
<TD>B3
<TR>
<TD>C1
<TD>C2
<TD>C3
</TABLE>

Then the table appears in the page just as you'd expect. If you have a more complicated table (or perhaps just a larger one) then the table doesn't appear on the page at all, but there's a very small icon (which I missed completely for a long time) which you can tap on. This takes you out of the main plucker viewer and into a separate 'table viewer' which has the table laid out nicely, and will scroll 2-dimensionally to allow you to see all of it. The icon, incidentally, looks like a 3x2 array of boxes. A bit like this in fact:
[][][]
[][][]
Only smaller, and not made out of ASCII square brackets.....

If the page has nested tables (as the link in my first post does) then you'll have to do the tap-on-the-icon thing twice (and the second time I seem to have to tap somewhere below the icon, not actually on it.....).

I spent a while hacking around on the command line so I could explicitly add the --tables and got similar results.

Hope this may help someone, let me know if you learn any more....

Ian.

11-30-2006, 09:37 AM	#4
ipl Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2006 Device: Palm Tungsten E2	Assuming anyone else is interested, here's what I've found: Plucker Desktop doesn't appear to let you set the command-line parameters, but does have a tick box for 'use enhanced table support (currently experimental)' (On the 'formatting' tab of the 'configure channel' dialog). I think this may cause spider.py to be called with the --tables argument. If you tick this box and sync with a page with a very simple table e.g. <TABLE> <TR> <TD>A1 <TD>A2 <TD>A3 <TR> <TD>B1 <TD>B2 <TD>B3 <TR> <TD>C1 <TD>C2 <TD>C3 </TABLE> Then the table appears in the page just as you'd expect. If you have a more complicated table (or perhaps just a larger one) then the table doesn't appear on the page at all, but there's a very small icon (which I missed completely for a long time) which you can tap on. This takes you out of the main plucker viewer and into a separate 'table viewer' which has the table laid out nicely, and will scroll 2-dimensionally to allow you to see all of it. The icon, incidentally, looks like a 3x2 array of boxes. A bit like this in fact: [][][] [][][] Only smaller, and not made out of ASCII square brackets..... If the page has nested tables (as the link in my first post does) then you'll have to do the tap-on-the-icon thing twice (and the second time I seem to have to tap somewhere below the icon, not actually on it.....). I spent a while hacking around on the command line so I could explicitly add the --tables and got similar results. Hope this may help someone, let me know if you learn any more.... Ian.