[Sugar-devel] Object Chooser (was Re: Etoys mp3 files)

[Ajay Garg]

Also, is there a 'development-branch" for etoys :-P , from where etoys
binary can be downloaded, and tested ?

Regards,
Ajay

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Ajay Garg <ajaygargnsit at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 2:50 AM, Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de>wrote:
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>> On 04.06.2012, at 14:13, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
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>> > On 04.06.2012, at 13:43, Sascha Silbe wrote:
>> >
>> >> It's quite likely that Etoys doesn't implement its side of the
>> >> essentially undocumented Object Chooser API of Sugar 0.84+ correctly.
>> In
>> >> particular, the object_id parameter of the ObjectChooserResponse signal
>> >> will contain a) the data store object id (currently stored as property
>> >> 'uid') for Journal objects or b) the full path to the file for entries
>> >> stored on external storage media.
>> >
>> > That is indeed the first time I hear of that. Yes, Etoys expects the
>> chooser's response to be an object_id as per documentation at
>> >
>> >
>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Development_Team/Low-level_Activity_API#Choosing_Objects
>> >
>> > So you're saying that in the response, the second argument would more
>> properly be named object_id_or_full_path. And to distinguish the two cases,
>> we have to look at its first character: if it is '/' then it's a path,
>> otherwise an object id.
>>
>> I now extended that documentation page with the object_id_or_full_path
>> argument discussion.
>>
>> Also, I committed a fix for Etoys, will be in the next release.
>>
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> Bert, thanks for the commit !!!!
>
> Just wish to confirm, if the following hold true ::
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> a)
> As mentioned in one of the earlier emails, 'get_properties' method needs
> to succeed to open a journal/external-USB-drive object.
> So, my query is : is the end-result just opening of the file (from
> journal/external-USB-drive), or something more too ?
>
> b)
> If the answer to a) is "just opening the file", then I presume your commit
> fixes/enhances the case of opening the file from external-USB-drive ?
> (Sir, please don't take this as arrogance, I just wish to know the
> progress in this regard).
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Ajay
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>> This question remains:
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>> > Are there any other places in the API where instead of an object id we
>> have to expect a full path instead?
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
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