<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7653.38"> <TITLE>RE: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Groupthink 0.1 pre-alpha</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Hi David,          How do you solve "internet lag". User A puts a character "A" in position 10, then before user B see sees this (because of the finite propagation time), he puts character "B" in position 10? Who wins? You just have to make sure the the document remains the same for both users. Cheers! Martin -----Original Message----- From: sugar-devel-bounces@lists.sugarlabs.org on behalf of David Van Assche Sent: Wed 1/14/2009 11:42 PM To: Chris Ball Cc: bens@alum.mit.edu; Sugar Devel Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Groupthink 0.1 pre-alpha This sounds like a great foundation for a sugar framework... something that not only coders can get a feel for... kind Regards, David Van Assche On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org> wrote: > Hi Ben, > >   > Groupthink: Collab should be easy. > > (from the patch): > -        self.totranslate = gtk.Entry(max=50) > +        self.cloud.totranslate = groupthink.gtk_tools.RecentEntry(max=50) > > .. wow, that *is* easy.  And it's synchronous, so the text box is > updated with each character press.  You could also use this technique > for Pippy's source code textbox, which would immediately turn it into a > collaborative editor.  (I don't care about collisions very much as long > as everyone gets the same state; they can be resolved socially.) > > Now that we're excited, maybe you should let on what the blocker bugs > are.  :-) > > Could we sign you up for a quick XOCamp demo/talk? > > Thanks! > > - Chris. > -- > Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org> > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > <A HREF="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</A> > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org <A HREF="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</A> </BODY> </HTML>