On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
<barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> Wow, I'm amazed how receptive Raster was... will it rain today? :-)

Yes, it's raining cow !

> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:05:20 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>> <barbi...@profusion.mobi> said:
>>>     - elm_notepad (quite useless as it does not export much of
>>> editing, just links changed signal to save the file. I'm more more
>>> inclined to drop it and in future releases just something else with
>>> toolbar to control styles, like bold, italic, font faces and so on...
>>> without actually saving the file, that's the simplest part of it, the
>>> style management is the hard part)
>>
>> well then - what do you do about making useful pre-made "works" widgets. 
>> saving
>> code. saving hooking together a whole bunch of callbacks and filling things 
>> in
>> etc.? ok - maybe it shouldnt be a widget. maybe it should be  part of a util
>> api that hooks up savers for you- that loads and fills for you?
>
> if you check the widget and how one would do it, what's the most
> difficult part? file handling! Not widget. The signal connection is
> super simple. But reading file, managing stdio errors and all is a
> PITA. maybe offer utilities in eina/ecore like file_read_full()
> file_write_full()? If we're worried about blocking, it's ecore
> otherwise it's eina.   We have that in Systemd and I find it very
> helpful (as well as file_read_one_line(), to manage things that are
> known to be one liners, like /sys values).

Just to let you know we are planning with Vincent to add support for
file operation in eina. Providing something that does for you
open/fstat/mmap/munmap/close. So yes, we have plan to provide more
feature around file in eina. But I think we should start discussing
what will be in 1.1 when 1.0 is out :-)
-- 
Cedric BAIL

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