Hi Faisal,
sorry to get to this so late, are there any outstanding doubts?
The DS is right now a big mess due to long-standing bugs and basic
features still unimplemented. I hope that during the next release
significant resources will be allocated to this, if in the meantime
you could suggest
Hi Tomeu,
No problem about the late reply ... I am documenting improvements as I
document the current state of the system. So I'll try to suggest some more
coherent api as well. Let's keep in touch about this.
Faisal
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Tomeu Vizoso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Hi James,
Thanks for the feedback. I had two follow up questions for you or others who
are in the know with datastore:
1. You said: 'However, if your application is like Read, Read Etexts, or
View Slides, which are always resumed from existing Journal entries, there
is no need to write a file.
Faisal,
Look at the code for the Read activity. It never creates a Journal
entry itself. What it does is to resume from a directory entry created
by downloading a PDF through the Browse activity or perhaps one copied
from a USB key using the Journal activity. So there *is* a file in the
Hi James,
Based on your feedback, I've changed to wording for the write_file() entry
to the following:
*The following simple write_file() method shows how both metadata and files
are written. write_file() must point to a physical file. This file reference
can be created in several ways: *
1.
Faisal,
/* You can download or save a file to a particular location and then
change the self._jobject.file_path variable (as the Read activity does).
*/The Read activity only does the self.jobject.file_path variable when
receiving a shared document. I wish I had a really old version of Read
2008/6/16 Faisal Anwar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Rather than keeping track of what
state you are in, it seems more coherent and natural that the developer only
worries about specific calls to write metadata when he wants to write
metadata (like volume and playback settings) and only worries about
Wade,
What you propose sounds difficult for a kid to master. For myself, I'd
like external storage to be treated differently from Journal entries and
to *look* like its being treated differently. External storage could
have files and directories, you could navigate through them with a
Hey James,
It actually sounds a bit like we're talking about the same thing...
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 3:26 PM, James Simmons
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What you propose sounds difficult for a kid to master. For myself, I'd like
external storage to be treated differently from Journal entries
