Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 16:30, Jim Simmons wrote: > Tomeu, > > What you're saying seems to contradict what others have told me.  I > have three places I run Sugar: I must have explained myself badly because what you say below matches my knowledge. Perhaps I should have been more explicitly that I

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Simmons
Tomeu, What you're saying seems to contradict what others have told me. I have three places I run Sugar: 1). My XO, running .82. Files on removable media are listed using the datastore API as if they were Journal entries. 2). A linux box running Fedora 10, using the Sugar environment that s

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 17:09, Jim Simmons wrote: > Eben, > > I have given some thought to how I would implement getting image files > from removable media and I think I have a workable plan.  Before I > describe it I'd like to confess that it is *not* true that .84 code > will show objects on the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-27 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:43, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:41:28AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> The public API is the POSIX one, though I don't know how this will be >> affected by future versions of Rainbow. > > I can't find anything regarding mount points in POSIX 2001. Ho

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Eben, On 26 Aug 2009, at 16:43, Eben Eliason wrote: >> You really do need to upgrade ;-p > > I know! I've been waiting to figure out how to get the latest releases > flashed onto my XOs. The last time I looked I didn't see clear > instructions for doing so. Any pointers? :-) Good timing (see

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Jim, > > On 26 Aug 2009, at 16:09, Jim Simmons wrote: > >> Eben, >> >> I have given some thought to how I would implement getting image files >> from removable media and I think I have a workable plan.  Before I >> describe it I'd like to

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Eben Eliason
I think I'm looking in the right place, but the info isn't as readily available as I'd hoped. I'm looking here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick/Installation/OLPC In particular, I'm looking at options 2 and 3. The third says it's not yet supported. The second says it's not fully suppo

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Jim, On 26 Aug 2009, at 16:09, Jim Simmons wrote: > Eben, > > I have given some thought to how I would implement getting image files > from removable media and I think I have a workable plan. Before I > describe it I'd like to confess that it is *not* true that .84 code > will show objects on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Martin Dengler
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:43:54AM -0400, Eben Eliason wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > > You really do need to upgrade ;-p > > I know! I've been waiting to figure out how to get the latest releases > flashed onto my XOs. The last time I looked I didn't see clear >

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Gary C Martin wrote: > Hi Eben, > > On 26 Aug 2009, at 14:53, Eben Eliason wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Sascha >> Silbe wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:41:28AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >>> The public API is the POSIX one, though I d

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Jim Simmons
Eben, I have given some thought to how I would implement getting image files from removable media and I think I have a workable plan. Before I describe it I'd like to confess that it is *not* true that .84 code will show objects on the root directory of a thumb drive. It won't show *anything* on

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-26 Thread Eben Eliason
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Sascha Silbe wrote: > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:41:28AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > >> The public API is the POSIX one, though I don't know how this will be >> affected by future versions of Rainbow. > > I can't find anything regarding mount points in POSIX 2001.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-19 Thread Jim Simmons
Sascha, To clarify, the Journal entry for View Slides contains a Zip file with image files in it. I want to be able to create and update this Zip file. I want to add images to it, either from the Journal or from thumb drives. In .82 I could use one API for both. I will also rename and delete i

[Sugar-devel] Accessing external media from within an activity (was: Re: Problem listing journal objects)

2009-08-19 Thread Sascha Silbe
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 08:41:28AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: The public API is the POSIX one, though I don't know how this will be affected by future versions of Rainbow. I can't find anything regarding mount points in POSIX 2001. How do you expect Jims activity to discover them? Two ways com