fixing little issues on my QML/Python program

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Viranch Mehta <viranch.mehta at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>
> Please always use pastebin.com or paste.kde.org to show your codes instead
> of putting them in emails.
>

I think its ok to paste in a mail if its a snippet not too long, because it
helps other people who will later read the ML archives, as pastebins may
expire.


>
> Viranch
>
>
>>
>> from PyQt4.QtCore import *
>> from PyKDE4.kdecore import *
>> from PyKDE4 import plasmascript
>> #for flickr
>> import views
>>
>>
>> class PyFlickrEngine(plasmascript.DataEngine):
>>   def __init__(self,parent,args=None):
>>     plasmascript.DataEngine.__init__(self,parent)
>>
>>   def init(self):
>>     self.setMinimumPollingInterval(333)
>>     #for flickr
>>     views.initialize()
>>
>>   #adding this back in 24 jan to see if it helps
>>   def sources(self):
>>     sources = ["25", "50", "75", "100", "200", "300", "400", "500",
>> "600", "700", "800", "900", "1000", "1250", "1500", "1750", "2000","3000",
>> "4000", "5000", "10000"]
>>     return sources
>>
>>   def sourceRequestEvent(self, name):
>>     #print "source request event" #debugging
>>     return self.updateSourceEvent(name)
>>
>>   def updateSourceEvent(self,group):
>>     print "updateSourceEvent"
>>     #grouplist = []
>>     if group == "25":
>>       grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views25, views.views50)
>>       self.setData("25", "Group 25", grouplist)
>>     elif group == "50":
>>       grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views50, views.views75)
>>       self.setData("50","Group 50", grouplist)
>>     elif group == "75":
>>       grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views75,views.views100)
>>       self.setData("75","Group 75", grouplist)
>>     elif group == "100":
>>       print "i'm @ 100" #debug
>>       grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views100,views.views200)
>>       self.setData("100","Group 100", grouplist)
>>     elif group == "200":
>>       print "i'm @ 200" #debug
>>       grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views200, views.views300)
>>       self.setData("200","Group 200", grouplist)
>> *... (cut a snippet out - I think you get the point)*
>>     elif group == "10000":
>>       print "i'm @ 10000" #debug
>>       grouplist = views.analyzeviews(views.views10000, views.views10000)
>>       self.setData("10000","Group 10000", grouplist)
>>     return True
>>
>> def CreateDataEngine(parent):
>>   return PyFlickrEngine(parent)
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> --
>> Eric Mesa
>> http://about.me/ericmesa
>> http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com
>>
>>
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