[Sugar-devel] Some questions concerning saving methods on sugar

[Walter Bender]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 4:02 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 00:58, Alberto Arruda de Oliveira
> <alberto.a.oliv at 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.

-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.oliv at 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
>>
>>
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