How to prevent a shared document from downloading more than once?

2009-03-16 Thread James Simmons
It looks like my last naive question about collaboration started a discussion so notable that Walter Bender wrote about it in his blog http://walterbender.org/. Let's see what you can do with this one. Both my Activities, Read ETexts and View Slides, have document sharing code mostly copied

Re: How to prevent a shared document from downloading more than once?

2009-03-16 Thread Wade Brainerd
I wrote a brief proposal a few weeks ago for an improvement to the collab API that might help this problem. The discussion is in http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/428. Aleksey Lim wrote an example implementation of this Cartoon Builder. The idea is that rather than having overlapping entry points

Re: How to prevent a shared document from downloading more than once?

2009-03-16 Thread James Simmons
Great, once again I'm going to be indebted to Aleksey Lim. I'll give shared.py a try as soon as I can. James Simmons Wade Brainerd wrote: I wrote a brief proposal a few weeks ago for an improvement to the collab API that might help this problem. The discussion is in

Re: How to prevent a shared document from downloading more than once?

2009-03-16 Thread Gary C Martin
On 16 Mar 2009, at 15:29, James Simmons wrote: It looks like my last naive question about collaboration started a discussion so notable that Walter Bender wrote about it in his blog http://walterbender.org/. Let's see what you can do with this one. Both my Activities, Read ETexts and View

Re: How to prevent a shared document from downloading more than once?

2009-03-16 Thread James Simmons
Gary, I'm going to try your suggestion first, since it seems like something I could do with just a couple of lines. I'm remembering another problem I have with my stuff, which is how to give a shared document the correct name in the Journal that receives it. In the Read activity it seems it