Thanks to everyone who's helped me over the last year or so with my program. I have one more thing to fix on my engine and then it will be "perfect". The recent help I got helped me finally perfect the GUI. So my data engine's running a function over and over with different arguments to populate the sources. Here's what it looks like:<br>
<br>from PyQt4.QtCore import *<br>from PyKDE4.kdecore import *<br>from PyKDE4 import plasmascript<br>#for flickr<br>import views<br><br><br>class PyFlickrEngine(plasmascript.DataEngine):<br> def __init__(self,parent,args=None):<br>
plasmascript.DataEngine.__init__(self,parent)<br> <br> def init(self):<br> self.setMinimumPollingInterval(333)<br> #for flickr<br> views.initialize()<br> <br> #adding this back in 24 jan to see if it helps<br>
def sources(self):<br> sources = ["25", "50", "75", "100", "200", "300", "400", "500", "600", "700", "800", "900", "1000", "1250", "1500", "1750", "2000","3000", "4000", "5000", "10000"]<br>
return sources<br> <br> def sourceRequestEvent(self, name):<br> #print "source request event" #debugging<br> return self.updateSourceEvent(name)<br> <br> def updateSourceEvent(self,group):<br> print "updateSourceEvent"<br>
#grouplist = []<br> if group == "25":<br> grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views25, views.views50)<br> self.setData("25", "Group 25", grouplist)<br> elif group == "50":<br>
grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views50, views.views75)<br> self.setData("50","Group 50", grouplist)<br> elif group == "75":<br> grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views75,views.views100)<br>
self.setData("75","Group 75", grouplist)<br> elif group == "100":<br> print "i'm @ 100" #debug<br> grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views100,views.views200)<br>
self.setData("100","Group 100", grouplist)<br> elif group == "200":<br> print "i'm @ 200" #debug<br> grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views200, views.views300)<br>
self.setData("200","Group 200", grouplist)<br><b>... (cut a snippet out - I think you get the point)</b><br> elif group == "10000":<br> print "i'm @ 10000" #debug<br>
grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views10000, views.views10000)<br> self.setData("10000","Group 10000", grouplist)<br> return True<br> <br>def CreateDataEngine(parent):<br> return PyFlickrEngine(parent)<br>
<br>So that function it's calling, views.analyzeviews(arg, arg) is calling a web API and sometimes that API fails. The cool thing about data engines vs when I used to do this on the commandline is that if it fails at 25, it doesn't crash the whole program. It just moves on to 50. So I can end up in the end where when I click on 25 it tells me that there's nothing in the source and then I click on 50 and I can use the data from that source. So, right now if I want the data from 25, the only way I know how to do that is by re-running the program and hoping the API doesn't fail that time around. Is there a way for me to tell the data engine to update group 25 again from within the QML gui?<br>
<br>Thanks!<br clear="all">--<br>Eric Mesa<div><a href="http://about.me/ericmesa" target="_blank">http://about.me/ericmesa</a><br><a href="http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com" target="_blank">http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com</a></div>
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