Re: Is read_file() always called after an activity __init__?

2008-03-01 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 3:12 AM, John Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, so if my activity needs it's preferences before it can display anything to the user, potential future lazy loading of the data-store (to try and speed up general activity start-up time) is going to leave folks

Re: Is read_file() always called after an activity __init__?

2008-02-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does seem like read_file() is only triggered if you have previously saved an actual file to filesystem, if you just have metadata, no call is ever made to read_file() so it's a rather bad place to pick-up the

Re: Is read_file() always called after an activity __init__?

2008-02-29 Thread John Gilmore
Hmmm, so if my activity needs it's preferences before it can display anything to the user, potential future lazy loading of the data-store (to try and speed up general activity start-up time) is going to leave folks watching my activity with a blank screen for a lazy while? Ouch. Ahem.

Re: Is read_file() always called after an activity __init__?

2008-02-28 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Tomeu, On 28 Feb 2008, at 09:40, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Well, __init__ is too soon. Well before calling activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle) yes that would be a real bad idea for sure :-) but after that it 'should' be fine shouldn't it, as the activity class is all set up? I can

Re: Is read_file() always called after an activity __init__?

2008-02-28 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Gary C Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tomeu, On 28 Feb 2008, at 09:40, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: Well, __init__ is too soon. Well before calling activity.Activity.__init__(self, handle) yes that would be a real bad idea for sure :-) but after that it

Re: Is read_file() always called after an activity __init__?

2008-02-28 Thread Gary C Martin
It does seem like read_file() is only triggered if you have previously saved an actual file to filesystem, if you just have metadata, no call is ever made to read_file() so it's a rather bad place to pick-up the metadata. At least this is what I'm seeing here – I've just created a 0

Is read_file() always called after an activity __init__?

2008-02-27 Thread Gary C Martin
Hope this is not too silly a question, but is the read_file() method always called after the Python activity __init__'? I'm just started using self.metadata to store some basic preferences to pickup after a Journal resume, but I'm finding read_file() is never called in my activity. My