Overview of Plexus

Plexus has many advanced features including built-in image decoding, directory listing and searching functions. See also the File Layout overview.

Primary Features

Image Decoding: Finds objects in images using bitmasks or rectangles (see demo).
Directory Browser: Displays alpha-sorted directory listing with last modification timestamp, file size, and an indicator as to whether the object is a file or a directory. The user can also specify filename filters using the search keyword (see demo).
Directory Search: Searches directory trees using perl regular expressions, returns a list of documents found and even extracts the title information from html documents. (see demo).
Setext -> HTML Converter: Converts setext documents to HTML on the fly (see demo).
Bookmark: Allows you to navigate through a document space using a book icon. Built on top of the image-decoding library (see demo).

These are included as examples of how simple it can be to add gateways to Plexus. Some of these are only a few lines long.

Finger: Fingers people and displays faces (see demo).
Calendar: Displays calendars (see demo).
Date and Time: Displays the date and time using 61 different timezone translations (see demo).
Fortune: Displays a fortune from the fortune database (see demo).

These are maintained by other people but are included with Plexus for reference. These are good examples of how to do complex gateways.