Upload with Error
Yesterday, I added error text for the Uploader for files that error
during upload as per the Upload with Error storyboard.
I got pretty deep into implementing individual Retry buttons for each
row, however I ran into two problems:
- Accessibility Design: our keyboard selection pattern for the file
queue assumed that there was only one action that one could do on a
row, delete. Adding the Retry button made things ... interesting. More
like a table with rows and cells, I think but I need some help talking
through it.
- Code: doing a uploadManager.start() for an individual file was
having to touch more and more code, and at 11pm I panicked and backed
out. I think that I was close but it didn't feel production worthy.
Next Steps: It would be pretty easy to implement the general Retry
button for the whole queue based on the code that is already there. A
general Retry is part of the design but I need to talk to Erin and
Daphne about whether it is acceptable to have general retry without
ind. file retry and I need to talk to Justin about slipping this in
after feature freeze.
Cancel and Done
Last week, Colin and I were still debating whether the Cancel and Done
buttons made sense as part of the template for the Uploader or if they
were better implemented in an example. And since the only example of
the Uploader we have is the Image Gallery, I tried implementing Done
and Cancel as series of added listeners in the Image Gallery code. But
some combination of stale code in the Image Gallery and stale code in
my brain at midnight made that a non-starter, I just couldn't get the
Image Gallery to pass in a listener correctly. The ones that are there
don't actually seem to be working, but when I updated them the way I
thought that they should work, it didn't work.
Next Steps: I'd like a little help figuring out what's happening with
the listeners in Image Gallery and going over my approach. This would
probably be better in a Springboard but I don't think we have time to
pull one off.
The code that I used to implement Cancel and Done as buttons in the
template is stored away in a patch. It wouldn't take much to clean it
up and plug it in. But it's still debatable whether this is the right
approach.
Flash 10 bugs in bug parade:
I'd like to go ahead and engage Markus from the OpenCast project on
fixing these bugs. I think that we have enough information to have a
reasonable conversation about the options. Colin, you and I should
should sync up quick so that we have an understanding as to which
options we'd like to pursue. However, Markus may have some ideas and
suggestions for us as well.
On to bug parade.
- Eli
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Eli Cochran
user interaction developer
ETS, UC Berkeley
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