cPickle doesn't seem to make any difference in de-serializing a binary or text format: it seems to get recognized without problems, so there's no need for a try-except routine in opening the file, I think. If you set "ascii" as your user preference, you can open a binary project file with no apparent problem (and vice-versa), and when you re-save it it will be saved in ascii mode. Anyway, it seems to work, but I intended it mainly as a workaround, I'm not sure it doens't give problems in some occasion. WHat I can say is that it helped me in tranfering a project folder, as I saved in ascii format and then edited the file to fix the paths, and it worked. Maybe in the long run it would be more flexible to introduce an XML based project file format.
-- Project file should be a plain text file https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/499733 You received this bug notification because you are a member of OpenShot Developers, which is subscribed to OpenShot Video Editor. Status in OpenShot Video Editor: New Bug description: The OpenShot project file should be a plain text file. It is now a binary, thus not human readable nor adjustable. Advantages of using clear text: - you can clearly see what and how things are organised - things can be easily adjusted when something goes wrong - you can do automated text operations with grep/sed/awk etc. This is related (technically) to the problem where the path of the thumbnails of imported clips are registered in an absolute way. Moving the project file to another location or renaming the folder containing this project file, leads to not properly display of the thumbnails within the clips on the IDE. This could be adjusted, as a workaround, if the project file was in plain text. https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/423948 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
