Any idea why it works some of the time? Why is E Updating its config from the local file sometimes, but not others?
Seems like the easiest way for me to handle this would be to create a command to call that makes E reload it's config from the current files. On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:10:26 -0500 Jeff Hoogland <jeffhoogl...@gmail.com> > said: > > > I am working on a library that can read / write to EET files from Python. > > Essentially I decompile the file using the eet command, read the text > > structure in as a python data type, then after making changes to the > python > > data type I export it back to a text file, and recompile that text using > > eet again. > > > > The issue I am running into is when editing files that are in use - such > as > > E profile data - When I edit profile data and then restart E, sometimes > the > > changes take effect, but other times E overwrites the data back to what > the > > configuration file was. > > yup. that's how it works. if you are going behind e's back expect to > fight. e > holds master config in memory at all times. if it is modified (and it can > be > modified by many runtime things like remembering current state of > something) e > will write it all back out. you are going behind e's back and expecting it > to > work. it won't. not reliably. if you want to modify config you go THROUGH > e. > > if you want to make external tools, then write C modules that extend e's > ipc > (eg dbus - sample module already there extending it), and then expose dbus > methods to mess with config and then use these from your python app. > > basically... you're doing it wrong :) > > > Source code I'm working with -> https://github.com/JeffHoogland/neet > > > > -- > > ~Jeff Hoogland <http://jeffhoogland.com/> > > My Projects on GitHub <https://github.com/JeffHoogland> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > > -- ~Jeff Hoogland <http://jeffhoogland.com/> My Projects on GitHub <https://github.com/JeffHoogland> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
