On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Duncan Sargeant wrote: > Hubert Figuiere wrote on Tue March 16, at 12:26 +0100: > > > . all day events: syncing between Evo and s55 of all-day events > > > results in midnight-midnight events in the s55. a) this is done in > > > GMT, so its 8am -> 8am for me, and b) midnight-midnight localtime > > > spills over into the next day (looks bad on s55 calendar, I saw > > > someone else asking about that too). > > > > "All day events" are a big issues as each device seems to handle it its > > own way. > > Doh! Is that just v1 devices, or do v2 devices have the same problem?
Lots of "devices" don't speak vCal/iCal at all, and we have to transalte into that format. It is a problem in general. > > > > I patched the code to equate vCal v2 all day events to vCal v1 > > > zero-minute events at midnight on the day. Which is great for the > > > s55 (but probably not so good for other v1 vCal devices; > > > > Perhaps should these hooks be implemented on a device by device basis ? > > This would solve lot of side effects. This is IMHO the best solutions. > > Like a sub-plugin architecture? It sounds like a good solution to me > too, if the device formats are really so different. Not that I've > looked at it thoroughly at all, but my gut feeling is that it would > also require a rewrite of the sync-vtype code. At the moment it > parses vCal line-by-line, which could result in some bad spaghetti > code if it was trying to deal with many different formats. The idea in the future (0.90+) is to get the type massaging out of the sync engine and in to type plugins. I'd imagine that this would include data types like this. Tom ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Multisync-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/multisync-devel
