On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 14:41, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 00:58, Alberto Arruda de Oliveira >> <alberto.a.o...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> First of all, thanks for all the answers! >>> >>> I decided to follow your advices and implement the saving feature of my >>> activity through the journal. >>> >>> Although it's not working perfectly yet, I hope it will be soon. I'm just >>> having a little problem with the keep button. My activity creates the >>> journal entry like it should when I exit through the close button, but when >>> I press the keep button, it doesn't create the entry. Is there any big >>> differences in how the keep and close button access the journal to save the >>> state of the activity? >>> >>> Also, related to the sugar-emulator, sometimes, when I close it, all the >>> journal entries are wiped. I suspect this is an emulator problem ( because >>> not only it happened with my activity, but also with other activities ), but >>> I'd like to be sure I'm not doing anything wrong! > > It could be that the Journal is reindexing. (For a large Journal, this > sometimes has the appearance of an empty or nearly empty Journal.) If > you wait for the indexing to complete, everything reappears as normal.
But why would it be reindexing? Are people getting their journals reindexed from time to time? Regards, Tomeu > -walter >> >> Haven't seen it happening myself. Can you tell us specific versions of >> Sugar and any tips for reproducing it? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tomeu >> >>> Thanks again, >>> >>> Alberto Arruda de Oliveira >>> >>> 2010/9/20 Alberto Arruda de Oliveira <alberto.a.o...@gmail.com> >>>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I've been adapting an application to use as an activity, and I have some >>>> questions about the way to save on sugar. >>>> >>>> At first, I tried to just create a directory inside my Activity folder >>>> especially made for saving files, but it did not work, because of the >>>> access >>>> permissions to it, and, although we could simply manually change the folder >>>> permission for writing on that folder, we would have to do it for every >>>> single OLPC we installed our activity into and we didn't want that. >>>> >>>> Then, we started trying with the journal. Everything was going fine, until >>>> we discovered that another sugar activity, Scratch, implemented saving and >>>> loading on a similar fashion we previously wanted. It has a folder inside >>>> it's Activity directory with subdirectories related to each kind of Scratch >>>> project. Also, Scratch's Activity directory has the same access permission >>>> as any other sugar Activity installed. >>>> >>>> So, my question is, does anyone knows how Scratch implements it's save / >>>> loading method? is there any guide explaining how to do it without using >>>> the >>>> journal? Keep in mind that we do know that there are other directories we >>>> could use to save our files, but we would like to use our Activity >>>> directory >>>> if possible. >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance ( and sorry for any english mistakes :] ), >>>> >>>> Alberto Arruda de Oliveira >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
