[Dirssync-opendisc] Amazing foresight!

[Mark C. <xs...@uk...>]

I don't know about you, but I have customized my own version of dirssync to suit my particular purposes. What I do is define a module called custom.py in which I define a frame f derived from DsFrame. 

One of the things it does is to automatically open a sync file dependent on the machine that it is invoked from.

The other thing is does is work around a snag in the .dirsync exclusion file. What I want to happen is to ignore anything in the .svn directory, which is a source code control directory. It does this by redefining the DirFilterCallback() function in paninputs. 

So DirFilterCallback() has a use after all - which is why I said that there was an amazing foresight in the original class design.

For the curious, here is the actual module:
---begin
import pickle, platform, re

from wxPython.wx import *

import dirssync
from dirssync import DsFrame 

#define booleans, if necessary (pre-python 2.3)
try: True
except NameError: True, False = 1 , 0


def syncfilename():
	return "%s-pen.sync" % (platform.node())

class f(DsFrame):
    def __init__(self, parent, id, title):
        DsFrame.__init__(self, parent, id, title)

	#the stuff below here is from the inherited class

        #load the sync file br default
        #global listdirs
        fname = syncfilename()
        print fname
        pickfile=open(fname,"r") # use a filename of your choice
        listdirs=pickle.load(pickfile)
        self.paninputs.IntoListCtrl(listdirs)
        pickfile.close()

	#write something in the log
	self.panlog.add('My custom synchronizer')

        #change the default options
        self.panoptions.cb2.SetValue(False) # local to remote
        self.panoptions.cb3.SetValue(False) # remote to local
        self.panoptions.cb4.SetValue(True) # set one-way deletion

        self.paninputs.DirFilterCallback = self.NoSvn

    def NoSvn(self, list):
        listout = filter(self.IsSvn, list)
        return listout

    def IsSvn(self, el):
        r = re.compile("\\.svn")
        return None == r.search(el[2],1)
    
        

class mApp(wxApp):
    def OnInit(self):
        frame=f(None,-1,"Custom synchronizer")
        frame.Show(true)
        self.SetTopWindow(frame)
        return true


app=mApp(0)
app.MainLoop()    
---end


And talking about documentation ... it may be worthwhile having a little think about user documentation. One obvious place to put it is in the documentation section over at Sourceforge:
http://sourceforge.net/docman/?group_id=14777

What I don't know is if the documentation can only then be viewed online at Sourceforge, or whether it is possible to "compile" and bundle the documentation in with the releases.

Another obvious place would be to put it on the home page, which would also be under CVS control.

I don't know, I'm only mooting the idea.

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