On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Bert Freudenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mar 10, 2008, at 17:13 , Tomeu Vizoso wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Bert Freudenberg > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mar 9, 2008, at 13:29 , Martin Dengler wrote: > >>> Random UI feedback: > >>> > >>> I saw some trac/wiki/IRC discussion where eben mentions the > >>> decisions > >>> around non-modal dialogs and cites (among other things) the download > >>> progress/notification UI in Browse. > >>> > >>> Every time it comes up, I think: this UI is great. It doesn't get > >>> in > >>> my way but gives me valuable information about something I will act > >>> on, at some point, in a way that best fits with the > >>> I-might-interrupt-my-browsing-to-use-this-or-I-may-launch-from-the- > >>> journal-later > >>> uncertainty/problem that Browse downloads present. > >>> > >>> Nice little feature. > >> > >> I love the download bar in the Journal view, too. How could an > >> activity author use this? > > > > Hi Bert, > > > > you can mark a journal entry as in-progress using the 'progress' > > property with an integer value less than 100. > > > > Example in Browse: > > > > > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=web-activity;a=blob;f=downloadmanager.py;h=b8a2ff69c0696c7531efe929baea891620786c7e;hb=HEAD#l236 > > > > And you can know when the user canceled the in-progress entry by > > listening to the Deleted signal: > > > > > http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=web-activity;a=blob;f=downloadmanager.py;h=b8a2ff69c0696c7531efe929baea891620786c7e;hb=HEAD#l262 > > > > Do you think this is ready to become public API? Any suggestions? > > That API is public enough for me, it just needed to be documented: > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Low-level_Activity_API#Progress_Display > > But it would be a valuable addition to the next DS design to allow > incremental saving, that is, "streaming" into the file held by a > journal entry without having to create a potentially big temp file > first.
Thanks, added to the wiki: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DatastoreOpenIssues#Activity_intermediate-level_API > Is there any error handling - like, if the activity crashes in the > middle of downloading? Well, in that case the user can only delete the entry from the journal (canceling an in-progress entry is the same as deleting it). Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/sugar
